1. MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE PROCESS

2. MSC WORKSHOP AGENDA DAY
Time
DAY 1 : Topics of Discussion
8:30 -9:15
Session 1: Introduction of process for the day
9:15-10:15
Session 2: Overview of the process
10:15-10:30
Coffee/Tea Break
10:30-12:00
Session 3: Story telling in pairs
12:00 -1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Session 4: Development of themes and sorting of stories by theme
2:00-3:30
Session 5: Sharing and selection of stories In the group
3:30-3:45
3:45 - 5:00
Session 6: Discussion and practice for validating stories
DAY 2:
Validation Process in Communities

3. What is the Most Significant Change Methodology (MSC)?
A participatory monitoring and evaluation that involves:
Collection of significant change stories from the field
Selection of the most significant of these stories by staff or other stakeholders

4. What Can We Learn from an MSC Process?
Understanding of significant changes in women’s and men’s lives
Understanding of social and economic impacts on individuals, producer and self-help groups, and on communities
Identification of key domains and areas of focus for the evaluation

5. Steps in the Process Formulate an open question about change, such as:
Looking back over the last 3 years, what do you think is the most significant changes in women’s and men’s lives as the result of their involvement in the LGI Project?
Think of a story about an individual or group that illustrates the change
Share your stories in a group
Identify the different domains that the stories illustrate
For each domain, select the story that the group believes best illustrates the most significant change in the domain
Compare these changes with expected outcomes from the project

6. MSC Process

7. Evaluation Question: [Edit as Desired]
In the last three years, what do you think is the most significant change that has taken place in the roles of women compared to men as a result of LGI Project?

8. How Do We Start? Instructions for Storytelling
For fifteen minutes, write down or make a drawing of two stories you think illustrate the most significant changes as the result of the LGI Project. For example:
Individual changes in men and women
Changes in women’s and men’s participation and leadership of producer/farmer and self-help groups
Changes in communities and value-chains
Break into pairs and tell your first story to another person who will write it down as you tell it, then switch roles.
After you have both told your first story, switch partners and repeat process with second story.

9. Themes: Instructions for Session
Themes are different areas in which change is expected or unexpected
They can be in:
Access to and control over resources/assets
Beliefs
Practices or participation
Institutions/organizations or rules/policies
Think about the project to identify the themes or areas within which change has taken place
List the themes on a piece of flipchart paper
Come to agreement on the themes
Categorize the stories by theme
In plenary, write these themes on a flipchart. Then discuss which stories fall under which themes.

10. Telling and Selection of Stories: Instructions for Story Selection
Tell both of your own stories to the whole group
Tell the group which theme the stories belong in and why
As a group, discuss the changes represented by the stories
Decide as a group, which two stories are most significant
You can make decisions in any way you want to, including:
Developing criteria to score the stories
Discussing what you think are the most important expected and unexpected changes that have happened as a result of the project
Open or closed voting
Discussing until reaching consensus

11. Picture 2
Picture 1

12. Story Validation: Instructions for Validation
First, write up your version of the story. It should be a page or less in length.
Then, look at the form for validating the stories.
Practice interviewing using the form for validating the stories.
Ask the interviewee about:
Information in the stories and about the events that are described
Sequence of events—what happened and in what order
What the story means to the person who it is about. This can be different than what it means to the storyteller.

13. QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS?
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

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