Motivation is not what is missing
Students want to be agents of change. What stops them is fear, cost and a lack of support.
What We Learn from Our Projects
Every project teaches us something. With the students, teachers and communities we work with, we study what works and what does not, and we assess our projects against the evaluation criteria used by the World Bank and the European Union.
Learning report · 2021
Understanding and Influencing Students’ Behaviour
534 students and 89 teachers and head teachers in South Kivu and Kinshasa told us what makes young people monitor the services of their communities – and what stops them.
What we learned
Six lessons from our Integrity Clubs
Small barriers weigh heavily
No food after school, no transport, no rain gear and no letter of authorisation are enough to keep monitors at home.
Support must be close
Support run from far away, visits that stop and allowances not paid cost us the trust of monitors.
Teachers make the club
Where focal teachers and head teachers are active, clubs thrive; families who are informed support their children.
Safety and gender come first
Girls fear sexual harassment, boys arrest: protection must be part of the model from the start.
What is not tracked is lost
Without success stories and without following former monitors, neither motivation nor impact can last.
Our method
How we assess our projects
We assess our projects against the six OECD-DAC evaluation criteria, used by the World Bank, the European Union and most development partners, and we study behaviour with our 4E approach: Enable, Encourage, Engage, Exemplify.
Relevance
Does the project do the right things – does it answer the needs and priorities of the people it serves?
Coherence
Does it work with the other actors and programmes in the same place?
Effectiveness
Is it achieving its objectives, and for whom?
Efficiency
Are resources used well – are results delivered on time and at a reasonable cost?
Impact
What difference does it make, intended or not?
Sustainability
Will the benefits last when the project ends?
Project reports
Learning from every project
Our project reports set out what each project achieved, what it cost and what it taught us.
