Training on Most Significant Change (MSC)

CIRCLE Indonesia has facilitated a Training on Most Significant Change for CAFOD’s partners on 6-7 December 2011 in Nangroe Aceh Darussalam. The training was attended by 13 participants (2 women and 11 men). The objectives of the training were:

1. To increase the knowledge and understanding of CAFOD Partners about MSC techniques.

2. To provide practical steps to implement the MSC techniques in the ME Framework.

3. To increase awareness of critical issues in MSC implementation.

There are three topics discussed in this training :

1. MSC in M&E Framework.

2. MSC Steps: Introducing MSC, determining the topic of change, defining the reporting period, collecting stories Significant Changes (SC) , providing feedback on selected story(ies), verification, quantification, meta monitoring and secondary analysis, and revision of the MSC system.

3. Critical Issues in Implementing MSC.

All of the objectives above are achieved in a various degrees. The active use of participatory approaches in the training managed to encourage participants to share experiences and knowledge during the training. Although some participants could not attend the training completely, enthusiasm among the participants was high. It is really help to create a dynamic learning process of each other in the training.The eight sessions in the two-days training is were entirely conducted in a participatory approach.