First Progress Heifer’s Report (June)

Abstract

Under the direction of Heifer’s Senior Director Program CIAT shall deliver the following Services and/or Goods: i) identify a mutually-agreeable definition of “CSA” that is relevant to Heifer’s programmatic work, ii) evaluate and analyze CSA methodologies and approaches, and monitoring and evaluation (“M&E”) tools, iii) facilitate a participatory workshop at Heifer’s headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas in order to co-design a CSA framework together with up to fifteen (15) workshop participants, iv) based on the CSA framework, recommend a set of indicators for measuring progress and impact of the CSA framework for inclusion in Heifer’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems plan package, v) document Heifer’s new CSA framework, CSA methodologies and approaches, models and tools for programming and implementation that Heifer will use for fundraising and marketing purposes, vi) present results from the datamining process and co-designed CSA framework to Heifer and its country offices, vii) submit a final report and documentation, with recommendations for CSA performance indicators for Heifer, strategies and tools for data collection, areas for further research, and CSA methodologies and approaches for Heifer to consider in future programming. In this first progress report, we present advances on a definition of CSA that is relevant to Heifer’s programmatic work.