| Indicator ID | R&E11 |
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| Indicator full statement | % of supported formal and non-formal actors (disaggregated by age, gender, type/entity) who report a positive change of practice. |
Purpose
This is an outcome level indicator which aims to measure a positive improvement of the protection practices of actors who benefitted from Tdh’s supported interventions (directly implemented from Tdh or through its partners).
Definition
Formal actors include all professional actors working with children and youth, from the social services workforce, justice social services, law professionals, education and health sectors professionals; local and national migration policy makers, cross-border networks, and border workers.
Non-formal actors include community members and leaders, child protection committees, child led and youth led committees, CP volunteers, parents, guardians, caregivers, diaspora communities and organisations and paraprofessionals.
Other actors include private sector companies’ staff and sports federations.
Key activities can include: supported with protection technical resources, training, awareness raising activities, webinars, workshops, learning events, conferences or any other capacity strengthening activity on child and human rights, child protection risks and prevention and response mitigation strategies to sustain a progressively improving protective environment for children and youth.
Improvement in practices refers to positive change(s) of behaviour that demonstrate a concrete application of knowledge gained or reformed attitude and belief related to identifying, preventing, addressing, referring, and reporting violence against children, youth, and gender-based violence. For example (not exhaustive) a judge making a decision based on child's opinion, Demonstrating applying best interest of the child principle in a decision (eventually reconsidering a decision), etc.
How to collect & analyse the data
| What do we count? | Tdh counts individuals. |
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| How to calculate the indicator's value | Percentage is calculated as follows:
Process:
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| Data sources | Formal and non-formal actors targeted through Tdh and partner’s projects. |
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| Example of survey questions | Survey questions for this indicator will be developed in 2025. |
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| Important considerations | This is an outcome level indicator. It is recommended to collect data at the end of the project or at the end of a cycle of activities (i.e. a series of webinars, workshops, training, etc) while giving sufficient time to the actor for being able to implement learning (1-3 months) |
Limitations and precautions
Limitations:
Ensuring the accuracy and reliability of self-reported data can be difficult. The measurement will be based on the self-reported statements of surveyed participants which does not guarantee that they will necessarily “act” in line with what they are reporting, in real practice.
Therefore, making casual links between a self-reported change of practices and the actual practice is not evidence-based.
Precaution:
This limitation could be mitigated by cross-checking with the results of indicators R&E 12– Actors engagement and R&E 13 – Actors trained to analyse trends and reinforcing results or any other complementary information (observation on the ground, interviews with children).
What further analysis are we interested in?
What types of behavioural changes have occurred? Does it say anything on the relevance of our capacity building contents and methods?
What are the blocking factors that impede the implementation of new learning on the ground?
Establish the baseline (reference value) for use in future assessments.