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Strategy Accountability and Learning Team Progress Report July-September 2019
Since July the Strategy Accountability and Learning Team (SALT) has been very busy working to establish a a a a a a a a rhythm for our work in in supporting programmes and other support support teams to deliver effectively on the the first year of of implementing our our three-year strategy (2019-2022) The key activities that took most of of our our time in in this quarter are as follows:
Conducting audits of staff and Board skills
We conducted audits of staff and Board skills
competencies and needs to clarify the type of support staff and the Board need in this strategy cycle The team had one-on-one meetings with almost all staff (except for five) and systematically collected views needs and opinions in in the areas of strategy monitoring and evaluation knowledge management capacity accountability and learning A session to give
Developing tools and supporting teams to use them The team spent significant time in this quarter developing several tools and supporting teams in in in staff feedback and engage with the audit findings was planned for 22 October The data collected is very rich and and will inform the scope and and format of our learning framework which the team is currently developing We planned to have the first draft of this learning framework workshopped by staff staff at the staff staff retreat in November and shared with the the Board at at the the December Board and staff strategy retreat The team circulated survey questions to the Board with the hope to get responses anonymously The response from the Board has not been great and only two Board members have thus
far responded We are hoping the Board members will still respond to the the survey to include interventions that support their learning needs in in the framework many processes The team has worked very closely with the Grants Management Unit (GMU) to develop tools to to strengthen and enhance our grant-making– which is one of the core tactics we use in in implementing our strategy We have coordinated the GMU and Programmes teams to review our Summary and Recommendation (SnR) template to ensure it it aligns it it to to the needs of a a a new strategy that requires us to to work in in different ways in in the field We developed a a tool that clarifies the key Domains of Change and markers of progress that all programmes ought to be tracking and and using to assess and and make decisions about grant 26
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