The document include some general reflections from Oxfam Novib’s management regarding the SD=HS Mid Term Review (MTR), followed by specific responses to the conclusions and recommendations of the report.
Between May and December 2021, Leitmotiv Social Consultants conducted the MTR of the Sowing Diversity = Harvesting Security programme. SD=HS is part of the Sida-funded SeedsGROW programme. The aim of the MTR was to determine the extent to which the different activities have contributed towards the overall objectives and outcomes of the programme, to identify the lessons that can be drawn at this point of implementation, and to provide all stakeholders with the necessary information to take timely and informed decisions about further programme activities and about the future of SD=HS.
The MTR Steering Committee, consisting of Oxfam Novib, Oxfam country offices and partner
representatives, guided the process, commented on the draft MTR report and approved the final version, to which a management response is now being provided. Representatives of both Oxfam country offices and partner organizations provided comments on the preliminary version of the report and provided inputs for this management response during online meetings held in December 2021.
Mid Term Review conclusions:
- Contribution to change
- The long-term character of SD=HS’ theory of change
- Relevance
- Coherence
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Sustainability
- Learning
Mid Term Review recommendations
- 1. Strengthen coordination and integration among pillars
- 2. Strengthen the programme’s policy practice influencing component
- 3. Join the (glocal) dots
- 4. Maximise the demonstrative value
- 5. Be more inclusive.
- 6. Embrace the concept that “time is money”
- 7. Re-balance the power
- 8. Be more transparent
- 9. Generate information depending on the uses.
- 10. Participatory Knowledge Management and Learning
- 11. Look forward
- 12. On types of seeds
- 13. Insurable risk
- 14. On Neglected Underutilized Species (NUS)
