Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
The collection of data will be organised in such a way that it fulfils diverse requirements: that of
a general livelihood and market development monitoring in the project areas, and specific
requirements concerning project implementation as well as that of the SDC monitoring tool and
cooperation strategy monitoring. Partner NGOs and for specific purposes local stakeholders will
collect the data, while Samriddhi will cross-check data collected by partner NGOs or
stakeholders in order to verify their validity. The compilation of the data and the analysis will be
done again by Samriddhi.
Besides the usual collection of monitoring quantitative and qualitative data, which will be
disaggregated according to gender and poverty level, special studies will capitalise the
experience of the project regarding its approaches, behavioural changes, institutional
development, impacts on the context, etc. This will be particularly important in relation to the
knowledge management.
Monitoring and evaluation will be the responsibility of all programme staff and will be led by the
PSMU. Backstopping for the improvement of the M&E system, as well as the knowledge
management system, its operation and data analysis, will be provided by Intercooperation, while
the PSMU will develop capacities at regional level for the implementation of the system. There
will be an annual joint-assessment involving partners and stakeholders to determine the
progress and adjustments that are required to be made. The monitoring results achieved by the
project will be shared amongst partners, participants, public institutions and relevant
stakeholders.
An extended baseline survey for Samriddhi will be initiated at the end of the current phase of
LEAF and SAAKTI in order to have the baseline information ready at the beginning of the
phase.
Existing monitoring tools like well-being and ill-being analysis, joint review of communities and
partners, socio-economic observatory, specific exercises with communities and partners,
experience capitalisation etc. will be continued to monitor the changes and impacts at the direct
beneficiaries’ level within the geographical intervention areas of the project. Efforts will be made
to simplify the tools and if required include new tools in order to make the system more efficient
and effective. In addition, results measurement methods (e.g. result chain) will be introduced
and applied to monitor the impacts at the beneficiaries’ level in relation to interventions in value
chain and service provision, since their implications and coverage would not be limited only
within the project’s intervention area.
The project will produce six-monthly activity progress reports based on the reports from the
partner organisations, stakeholders and project information system. The project will submit a
half-yearly progress report and an annual report to SDC. The annual reports will be provided
together with the respective Annual Plan of Operations (APOs). The annual reports will contain
progress of both outputs and outcomes. A phase end-report will be submitted to SDC. Best
practices and lessons learned related to leading change processes within state institutions will
be capitalised and disseminated.
An external evaluation will be conducted at the beginning of the third year of the project. A
process of self-evaluation will take place before the external evaluation, and will be used as
instrument for decision making. The self-evaluation and the external evaluation together form
the mid-term review, which will provide inputs for necessary adjustments of the project during
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