Improving Your Results :

Applying "Good Practice" and Field-tested Experience

Our core skill is knowledge and application of "good practice" methodology for project, programme and strategy planning, implementation and quality assurance.
We identify, design and appraise complex multi-agency sector programmes as well as individual NGO projects. We manage or carry out reviews and evaluations of individual projects and of sector programmes. We develop monitoring and results-based management systems for development actors and provide training in how to use these tools. We help establish baselines and identify relevant and cost-effective indicators. We help build consensus around the targets that should be attained and how to collect the data necessary to monitor performance.

This is in part based on theoretical knowledge: Scanteam has written handbooks on development methodology and teaches courses in the field. But the most important source of knowledge is the practical experience gathered through the field-based tasks we carry out: project and programme identification and appraisals; monitoring and indicator development; implementation, reviews and evaluations; and training and facilitation in these fields.

• Identification, Planning and Design
• Appraisals
• Monitoring and Managing Information
• Evaluations and Reviews

Different Approaches

Different planning, monitoring and evaluation approaches are used by our clients, and the stakeholders they work with: NGOs and civil society actors, public institutions, donor agencies and national governments.

Scanteam has used many of these methodologies. We have applied or adapted them according to the context and the needs of our clients, to achieve the best results under the particular circumstances.

While there may be important differences among these, our approach is always a participatory one with a focus on listening to the views of the full range of stakeholders.