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Module 4.3 Building an Impact Strategy
3 Participant activity in smaller breakout groups

Note: If the training group consists of participants all working on the same national assessment, then
participants can either chose which breakout table they want to work at, or the facilitator can assign
them to groups. If participants represent several countries, or departments or organizations undertaking
9-12 December, 2013 organization.
different assessments, then breakout groups should be organized by country or by department/

Facilitator explains that at the end of the session, the participants will have prepared a draft

impact strategy. Throughout the remainder of the workshop, the draft strateg(ies) will be
revisited, and participants will be asked to consider whether and how to revise and strengthen
their strateg(ies).

4.3.1 Drafting the impact statement
Facilitator: More detailed explanation of the impact statement; suggest possible general purposes of an

assessment

Each person in the breakout group is asked to:
? Describe a situation that will be better as a result of your assessment

? What do you specifically want to see changed as a result of your assessment?

? Group then prepares a statement of the impact that they want their assessment to have.

4.3.2 Identification of WHO they are trying to have an impact on

Facilitator: Further comments on WHO:

Groups are then asked to:

? List 10 key actors they most want to reach with their assessment findings

* Why do they want to reach them?
* How feasible is it that they can reach them, or do they have to identify “intermediaries”?

4.3.3 Discussion of WHAT knowledge they need to collect and how that
knowledge is collected

Facilitator: Repeat explanation of “What”, followed by brief explanation that the balance of the capacity
building workshop will provide more tools for what information to gather and how to collect it. This

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