Transparency International’s Impact Monitoring Process
Transparency International’s approach to monitoring impact for anti-corruption work is collaborative and participatory. It is designed to help the organisation gain a better understanding of what works in the fight against corruption, including why and how it works. It captures the different change processes that the Transparency International movement and more broadly the anti-corruption community are contributing to and achieving.
CIVICUS’ Approach to an Accessible Mission Statement and Theory of Change
To enhance accessibility, transparency, and the ability for stakeholders to engage with the organisation’s overall work, CIVICUS has made a copy of their strategic plan publicly available (in 6 languages) on their website, showing their commitment to being inclusive. In addition, it further made introductory videos available in four main languages for its members and wider civil society.
World YWCA’s Approach to Feedback from Internal Stakeholders
A helpful illustrative example is provided, outlining how MAs, staff, and partner organisations provided input on the development of World YWCA’s Goal 2035. The Panel notes positively the efforts to obtain input from a diverse membership base and to gather feedback in several rounds of consultations over several years.
SOS Children’s Villages’ user-appropriate feedback and complaints mechanisms
All of the information about SOS’ various feedback mechanisms is easily accessible on their website. The mechanism for safeguarding concerns is particularly accessible. It is available in six languages and has a separate submission form aimed at children, which uses language that speaks directly to them, provides examples of what kind of behaviour to report and explains how to submit anonymous reports.
Educo’s financial statements are audited by two firms
The 2014 financial statements were audited by two auditing firms, Ernst & Young and Audalia. As a control measure, both firms had to agree on their opinion about the accounts. To date, Educo is the only NGO in Spain that uses this co-auditing system. Later on, Educo presented annually its audited financial statements to the Protectorate of Foundations of the Generalitat de Catalunya, in which the organisation is legally registered, and the statements were published on the website.
World YWCA ensures an accountable movement through its strategy
The World YWCA took major decisions to implement the Accountability Commitments and adopted the Strategic Framework 2016-2019. The 3rd Goal in the Strategic Framework is to build an effective, well governed, accountable and sustainable movement that has robust assets to sustain the work of the movement and has a key action to “implement the accountability framework for the World YWCA, including a formalised monitoring and evaluation strategy, processes and the International Accountability Charter (INGO).”
Amnesty puts accountability high on their internal agenda
Amnesty International’s report submission to Accountable Now is based on analysis and inputs from International Secretariat staff and from their national entity reporting mechanisms (Standard Action Reports and Core Standards). One Senior Director is responsible for each key accountability area of improvement, as identified in the 2014 feedback from the Independent Review Panel (participation, gender, anti-corruption, governance). The Senior Directors discuss updates twice a year (linked to the Panel’s feedback and the analysis of internal global reporting).
Sightsavers boosts its transparency by publishing its policy positions
Sightsavers publishes its policy positions on its website and intranet. In the UK, policy positions are disseminated to key targets in Westminster and Whitehall. They are used as a basis for additional briefings (for example to brief Members of Parliament or Peers in advance of relevant Parliamentary debates).
Transparency International boosts its performance and impact
In 2014 Transparency International (TI) developed a movement-wide approach to monitoring impact. The approach aims to build a more robust body of evidence regarding what works in the fight against corruption, why and how it works. The Impact Monitoring Approach (IMA) is designed to be broad and flexible enough to capture the different change processes that the TI movement and more broadly the anti-corruption community are contributing to and achieving.
Educo carries out its self-conducted performance reviews by the Board of Trustees
As established in the Code of Good Governance, the Board of Trustees commits to carrying out at least two reviews of its performance during its period of mandate, one at the halfway point and the other at the end. Likewise, Educo is currently in the process of preparing the first self-evaluation of the current Board, which will be carried out in the last quarter of 2015. The results of this review will enable to assess board effectiveness and establish a baseline for defining areas for improvement with respect to governance and for establishing new objectives.