Equipping Implementing Organizations to Use Data and Evidence

In this image:Women in Fundacion Juanfe's Transformemos sin Fronteras (TsF) program. © IPA
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IPA’s Two-Generation Initiative is currently supporting refugee-led, locally-led, and international organizations to strengthen their monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems to improve the delivery of their two-generation programs. These improvements are ultimately intended to enhance outcomes for caregivers and young children in refugee and host community households.

We provide support in two ways:

  1. First, we develop and implement an incubator workshop that fosters connection, engagement, and insight sharing among participants. The workshop helps participants to refine their theories of change and identify critical learning questions with a particular focus on two-generation programming.
  2. Second, we create tailored learning partnerships with each organization to develop a MEL approach that fits their needs and is grounded in a two-generation framework. This support includes refining learning agendas, addressing gaps in existing MEL systems, and providing technical support to teams to overcome their MEL challenges in their learning cycle from design, data collection, use and adaptation as they refine their programs.

See a description of our learning partnerships in Colombia, Ecuador, and Uganda below.

Colombia

    aeioTU

    aeioTU trains women in migrant communities to become home-based childcare providers, offering them business training, formalization support, and seed capital. IPA is supporting aeioTU to measure how these components contribute to caregiver business sustainability and child development outcomes.

    Corprodinco

    Corprodinco provides livelihoods training, psychosocial support, gender-based violence prevention, and early childhood services to migrant women facing displacement. IPA is supporting the organization to adapt its learning questions and assessment tools for rapidly changing migration contexts.

    Fundación Juanfe

    Fundación Juanfe is a Colombian nonprofit that works to improve opportunities for vulnerable young women. One of its initiatives, Transformemos Sin Fronteras, supports Venezuelan migrant women through a holistic intervention that combines psychosocial support, soft skills workshops, vocational training, job-readiness preparation, and access to childcare and early childhood development services. IPA supports Fundación Juanfe by strengthening its monitoring and learning approach, helping define meaningful indicators, systematize learning, and use data to inform program and strategic decisions.

    Juntos se Puede

    Juntos se Puede is a refugee-led organization that supports Venezuelan migrant women through livelihoods training, childcare spaces, mental health services, and education. IPA is helping the organization use data to understand how these integrated services might work together to reduce vulnerability for mothers and children.

Ecuador

    Fundación de las Américas (FUDELA)

    FUDELA is an Ecuadorian nonprofit focused on human development and improving the well-being of vulnerable children and families. Its ADN (Aprendiendo Desde Niños) program supports early childhood development through an innovative childcare franchise model that delivers quality learning and care services for children, while strengthening the sustainability of local centers. IPA supports FUDELA by helping identify what is working and where improvements are needed, and generates evidence to refine and strengthen the ADN model as it scales.

Uganda

    African Youth Action Network (AYAN)

    African Youth Action Network (AYAN) is a refugee-led organization that operates play-and-learning centers for young children alongside entrepreneurship and agricultural support for caregivers in refugee settlements and host communities in Uganda. IPA is helping AYAN develop practical tools to track child development and connect findings to program decisions.
     

    BRAC

    IPA is the Learning Partner for BRAC's Early Childhood and Graduation (ECG) project, a two-generation approach for supporting young children and their caregivers in refugee and host communities in Uganda. For the first time, BRAC implemented its Ultra Poor Graduation program with households that have a child attending a BRAC Play Lab. This Learning Agenda was developed in 2022 at the start of the project. It summarizes relevant evidence on the Graduation and Humanitarian Play Lab interventions and documents the consultations and workshops with BRAC that were used to develop the Agenda. It also describes the prioritized research questions and potential learning activities planned for the project.

    The continued collaboration has included an intensive time use observation study, a descriptive study exploring the connection between caregiver mental health and child development, qualitative interviews with frontline staff, additional workshops with BRAC team members and a randomized controlled trial (RCT), with results forthcoming.

    Literacy and Adult Basic Education (LABE)

    LABE operates home-based learning centers where parents facilitate play-based sessions for young children, while participating in village savings groups and micro-enterprise activities. IPA is supporting LABE to strengthen its measurement systems in preparation for rigorous external evaluation of its programming.

    Local Coalition Accelerator (LCA) Uganda

    LCA Uganda is a coalition of 13 local organizations that provides early childhood development, nutrition support, and caregiver livelihoods programming in Kampala and surrounding districts. IPA is helping LCA build systematic approaches to monitor implementation quality and use data for continuous improvement.

    Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation (TPO) Uganda

    TPO Uganda delivers parenting education, mental health services, and livelihood support to prevent violence against children in refugee and host communities. IPA is supporting TPO to analyze the possible cost-effectiveness of shorter and longer-duration  therapy models, and develop early outcome measures for child well-being.

    Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID)

    YARID is a refugee-led organization that provides vocational training, startup capital, and childcare spaces for refugee women and youth in Uganda. IPA is supporting YARID to digitalize its data collection, refine its MEL plan, and build capacity for structured learning reviews.