Annual Plan 2017 of the Girls Advocacy Alliance The Inception Report that the Girls Advocacy Alliance submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 12 September 2016 covers most of the information required for the Annual Plan 2017. As agreed with the Ministry on 13 October 2016, this Annual Plan therefore provides an update of the Inception Report, referring to the Inception Report where possible and focusing on (strategic) plans developed since the submission of the Inception Report. The Inception Report is added to this Annual Plan 2017 as a reference. This Annual plan refers to the Inception Report for strategic and activity plans at the level of the joint alliance programmes in ten programme countries, two regions and at the international and in this Annual Plan with regards to Programme Development, Baseline, PME&L and Harmonisation. Also presented in this Annual Plan is an update of the adjusted alliance budget (2016 2020), that is hereby formally submitted to the Ministry for approval.
Programme Development Chapter 5 of the Inception Report describes Theories of Change, context analyses, strategies, actions, expected outputs, intermediate (2017) and final outcomes (2020) for the ten programme countries in which the Girls Advocacy Alliance operates. Per country, an overview of local partner organisations and a baseline analysis of their capabilities for lobby and advocacy is presented. These plans have been developed during the inception phase (January August 2016), based on joint analysis and planning workshops by alliance organisations and (in most cases) local partner organisations. The same holds for the two regional programme components and the International and Netherlands programme components, described in chapters 3 and 4, respectively. These plans have not changed since the submission of the Inception Report and remain the basis of programme implementation in 2017. However, due to time constraints, varying levels of experience with the Theory of Change methodology, the complexity of lobby and advocacy and the challenges related to starting up new partnerships and collaboration, Alliance Programme Teams did not always succeed to formulate the expected outcomes of their joint programmes in a sufficiently SMART 1 way. As discussed with the Ministry, the alliance will work in the coming months to specify final outcomes This exercise will be coordinated by the Alliance Programme Committee and its executive body, the Alliance Desk. Consolidation of specified and adapted final outcomes by the Alliance Programme Teams will take place during the Outcome Harvesting sessions planned for September 2017. The Plan 2018 (to be submitted on 1 November 2018).
Baseline During the inception phase, Ecorys was selected and contracted as an external agency to develop and implement a baseline study to update and complement the initial context analyses by the GAA. The resulting Girls Advocacy Baseline Report was submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an integral part of the Inception Report. This version of the Baseline Report did not yet include a case study for Ghana. An updated version of the Girls Advocacy Baseline Report, including the now completed case study for Ghana, is submitted to the Ministry with this Annual Plan.
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