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MEETING MINUTES LEARNING & MONITORING TEAM - INCLUDING POSSIBLE TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A CONSULTANT TO SYNTHESISE IFAD-FUNDED KM4DEV ACTIVITIES 2011-2013

Agenda:
1. Intro and context
2. Reviewing the activities to document
3. The online learning meeting across L&M, SNA, CTLab, core group?

Participants: Melissa, Simone, Sophie, Ewen.
Reading afterwards: Peter

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1. Intro and context

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Questions Melissa:
Context: http://wiki.km4dev.org/Documenting_the_L%26M_work

Ewen's update: agreed on steps for survey, established liaisons with other projects groups (e.g., CTLab), now need to plan next steps- inform how we may want to develop the KM 4Dev community- we need to come back to the community with some questions, so we can get a discussion going [develop KM4Dev in what way?]

How can we get feedback from the L&M report [link to the report?]? We got none directly with the publishing- probably due to fatigue- 
At this point we may not want to get feedback yet- a better approach may be to join and process recommendations from all groups (CT labs, SNA, etc) and try to get feedback from a more integrated set of recommendations

2. Reviewing the activities to document

Suggestion on how to carrry out: simple After Action Review (AAR) + other questions that seem helpful. Perhaps including the main points from L&M report here: http://wiki.km4dev.org/KM4Dev_Learning_and_Monitoring_2012-2013

3. The online learning meeting across L&M, SNA, CTLab

Sophie discussed with SNA folks the option to use remaining IFAD funds to get help from someone to look at the results from all of this work (SNA/L&M/CTLab) and to do some cross-analysis from an external view... An outsider might have an interesting perspective. This was presented at a core group meeting. How was it received? No definitive answer.

It would be a good idea and there was motivation to do this to avoid conflicts of interest and to synthesize more easily. The amount of details between L&M and SNA is very different. It might be easier to have an outsider synthesize this work.

Melissa: good to have someone from the KM4Dev community. This echoes the request for more leadership from the community. [maybe there is not enough leadership because (1) the core group is too big with not clear TOR and (2) we refrain from pushing for leadership within the core group?]

Simone agrees.

Possible inputs to the IFAD introspection synthesis consultancy ToR:
ACTION POINTS:
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ToR

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR SYNTHESIS OF MAJOR [?] IFAD-FUNDED KM4DEV ACTIVITIES [this seems something different: AND IMPLEMENTATION OF KEY RECOMMENDATIONS]    

The KM4Dev community has received a grant from IFAD for 2011 - March 2013, to implement a number of jointly agreed activities (a commented version of the work plan is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AHswQl9WblchmUbxwskQtRQBfnAT_O1HjcT-NCSpbvk/edit?hl=en_GB&pli=1#heading=h.rg5xudbk43au)
Among these activities, three major endeavours have been undertaken:
These Terms of Reference propose to task a consultant to synthesise the results of these three major endeavours to provide a proper analysis of insights and propose and generate recommendations to KM4Dev as to how it could further develop. 
This synthesis work might be structured as a "loose" After Action Review - or any other form of assessment deemed relevant. 
The output should be a report about finding common aspects that have gone very well in the community, and things that bear improvement, as well as a first attempt at ways ahead to resolve some gaps. The report should lead to "issues" and recommendations to discuss with representatives of the three project groups and the core group. 

Work plan:
The work plan suggested for the consultant would entail the following activities:
The KM4Dev core group will see to it that the decisions made during that discussion are shared with community members for feedback and further refinement.

Outputs expected:
All outputs should be documented on the KM4Dev wiki and when appropriate shared with the community via the Dgroup and the Ning site.

Consultant profile requirements:
The consultant should comply with the following requirements: 
Budget and payments
The activites mentioned are estimated to take a week:
The daily fee rate proposed for this work is USD 500 for this work.

Payment will be made in two installments: one installment (30% upon signature of the contract), the remaining 70% upon completion of the work and delivery of all agreed outputs.

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