Assignment 3: Monitoring, Evaluating, and Reporting on the Project

1. Write a list of the major assumptions you have made in designing your project. Identify 3 key things you want to learn more about.
Major assumptions

• A strong background and knowledge in microfinancing is needed for social entrepreneurship
• It is important to have an unique idea in order to be able to design an economical strategy to improve the economical impact of a place through social entrepreneurship
• Water is becoming a scarce resource worldwide
  

3 Key Things I want to Learn About

1. How can I design an unique strategic plan to improve the community?
2. What is a specific need that the community need the most and how to determine that? What sort of research is needed as all needs are important?
3. What makes certain social entrepreneurship more successful?

2. Following the 8 steps in this module, develop an evaluation plan for your project. Use the headings below as a guide as well as the questions included throughout the module (see the sections). You can also refer to the ‘Evaluation Plan Case Study’ in this module for help.

Project title: Sharing Water Worldwide

Project Manager: Elisabeth Huang

Purpose of evaluation: To assess whether the efforts of the project, Sharing Water Worldwide, was effective in educating the public about water resources-the importance of using water to efficiently protect our planet as well as building a well for a community in Africa. By thoroughly evaluating the implementation of the project, this will enable my team and I how to further improve and precede the future of the project so that we can make a meaningful influence on the community.

Involvement of Stakeholders:
Neighbouring communities of the Toronto area – The resources of the project will be aimed at educating neighbouring communities in the Toronto area.

Elisabeth Huang – As the Project Manager, I will be overseeing the daily operation of the project’s activities as well as assessing the progress of the project and make any necessary changes to improve the future of the project.

University of Waterloo FEDS – Funding will be requested from the University of Waterloo FEDS via application process – unsure whether we will acquire funding from them but this will hopefully be a potential sponsor who will support our project otherwise we will try to apply to http://www.dosomething.org/ for funding.

University of Waterloo International Health Development Association – I will like to ask individuals in this association if they are interested in forming a team that focus on this specific project since they are already individuals in this association who is interested in international development issues.

Life Water – The money raised from this event will be going to Life Water where a well will be built for a community in Africa. (http://www.lifewater.ca/)

Community in Africa – The community that will receive the well.

Indicators of achievement:
Objective 1: To educate at least 100 individuals about the importance of water and how to get involved in raising awareness about water sanitation in developing countries.

Indicator: Achieve an attendance number of at least 100 to the event.

Evidence required	How often/ When	Obtained from
1. A method to keep track of the number of people who attend the event by registration 2. Create a questionnaire that ask attendees what they have learned from the event 3. Photographs of the event	-At the start of the event -At the start of the event -Throughout the event -At the end of the event -Throughout the event	Elisabeth Huang Elisabeth Huang Elisabeth Huang

Objective 2: To raise enough funds to drill a well for a village in Africa

Indicator: To raise a minimum of $3000

Evidence required	How often/ When	Obtained from
1. Donations from raindrops (Each person that makes a minimum donation of $1 will receive a raindrop where they can write their name and stick it on the wall) 2. Number of tickets sold	-Throughout the event, donations will be accepted -Throughout the event tickets will be sold -At the end of the event, the tickets will be totaled	Elisabeth Huang Elisabeth Huang

Baseline information required:
Primary source of information
We will conduct a research to determine what the situation was like before carrying out this event-how knowledgeable the public is about water and their usage of water as well as learning about the need of the African community for a well. We will also request LifeWater for information on African communities. As for local information, we will contact local government dealing with water issues in neighboring Toronto communities for up to date primary sources of information to educate the community.

Secondary source of information
We will visit the library for secondary sources of information for educating the public as well as conduct an online search for a general overview of water sanitation issues.

Evaluation tools and techniques to be used:
At the beginning of the event when people register, one of the questions requests that the individual provide their email address. At the end of the event, a questionnaire will be sent to the attendees of the event requesting that they answer certain information in regards to what they have learned from the event, what they liked from the event, what are some of their suggestions to improve the event for future purposes and other questions. The questionnaire will be created using a computer using http://www.surveymonkey.com/ since I am quite familiar with the site and it is easy to produce and analyze the results in the way that it is organized. A month later, I will send another questionnaire to see if the event has influence the activities of the attendees of the event. The team will then have a meeting within 1 week after the event to assess and evaluate the event thoroughly by communicating verbally at the meeting to improve the event.

Logistical & resource considerations:
Time – It will take at least a week to draft up an application to request for funding. Once we hear from the potential funder which could be anywhere from a week to three weeks, I will start putting an executive team together to begin the implementation of this project. It should take approximately 2 months of planning. After a month from the date of executing the event, I will ask the participants to complete a second questionnaire to see if the project has any influence on the participants by learning about the activities they have engaged in since attending the event.

Money – The main cost of the event include the following:

• Food for the event
• Venue
• Travel fee
• Display boards
• Advertising material (printing costs, Bristol boards)
• Informational banners
• Film for photographs

People – My team and I will evaluate the project but will also assess based on the feedback received from the event and ask guest speakers for their inputs.

Approach to the analysis of information:
Conclusions regarding the success of the event based on the feedback of the participants will be converted into useful information collected online. The information will be analyzed via online using http://www.surveymonkey.com/ where graphs will be automatically designed based on the information of the survey received. However, graphs would not be generated for text answers but will be created for those where the answer input is in numerical format.

Reporting and communication of outcomes / learning:
My team and I will create a report for the University of Waterloo FEDS or dosomething.org based on who decides to fund our project. In the report, we will include a recommendation section to inform our funder future steps required to carry out in order to help our community to successfully achieve their needs. In addition, a meeting will be organize to discuss the results of the project to other members of the University of Waterloo International Health Development Association to foster prospective interests early should the project continues to be an annual event.