tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3708485561849480984.post178111064754033569..comments2023-06-27T05:38:05.609-07:00Comments on Plant With Purpose: Transformational Development: The Purpose of Plant With PurposePlant With Purposehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264810586050663488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3708485561849480984.post-22377106950228923492009-11-13T09:19:45.863-08:002009-11-13T09:19:45.863-08:00Hi Mkaech,
Thank for your great question! We do qu...Hi Mkaech,<br />Thank for your great question! We do quantify our transformation goals with a series of indicators.<br /> The transformation we look for falls into three areas: Quality of Life, Relationships, and Sustainable Benefits (i.e. the work and benefits continue even after we are gone, as we don't want to create dependency). For each fo these three areas we have another set of indicators.<br /> For Quality of life we are looking at: Change in health and nutrition, increased levels of education and gender equality.<br /> For Relationships we look to see if people report more harmony in the community and we measure how disputes are resolved. We also measure changes in people's perceptions towards the environment and their relation to God. <br />For Sustainable Benefifts we look to see the number of people trained who are training others, the involvement of children and changes in the local churches or other locally run institutions' capaity to continue development in the community. PWP hopes to empower communities to be self sustaining and continue to develop after we have left.<br />Together, these indicators create a index, which we call our transformation index, which help us see village to village how far along communities are in transformation terms. <br /><br />I hope this answers some fo your questions! Feel free to contact as for more information!Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13863253193010911233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3708485561849480984.post-44068818803480770652009-11-13T08:37:25.352-08:002009-11-13T08:37:25.352-08:00Thanks for your post! I appreciate your thoughts o...Thanks for your post! I appreciate your thoughts on Transformation and tghe focus of PwP!<br /><br /><br />I have one question in response to your post...<br /><br />How does PwP/Floresta measure "transformational" impact?<br /><br />I'm really curious, because I see a trend internally in development org's where making "decisions" (at a board/CEO level) is done on the basis of measures...and the best measure is cold hard facts like how many children received "x" or how many trees were planted.<br /><br />Is it possible to have a goal of "transformation" and not have a quantifiable measure/ROI to report to its donor base and its leadership?mkaechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00447656744970017304noreply@blogger.com