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Jan 2007 to Dec 2007

proMENTE social research

Sida

Steve Powell

proMENTE social research

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, government at state level is barely functional. Ideally, civil society organisations would help to fill the gap, but they are not well developed, as is often the case in transition societies. Thus, support to civil society is an important strategy for indirectly improving governance. But this support is as much about helping individuals, networks and relationships to develop as it is about reaching higher-level goals such as legislative change. Traditional evaluation tools such as LFA often prove too abstract and inflexible in this kind of context. Outcome Mapping provides a very promising alternative.
This project involved the assessment of Outcome Mapping as a tool for evaluating and monitoring support to civil society organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study is based on a pilot application of OM, commissioned by Sida, with involved six civil society organisations which were funded through three Swedish intermediaries.