Beka Tagauri is a Senior Programme Officer of SDC-Georgia. He deals with the region's e+i portfolio and has been one of the result measurement pioneers within SDC.
Today is the last day of the seminar - what are your impressions?
I'm really quite positive about it; the seminar was successful both in communicating updates on results and successful cases as well as brainstorming on diverse issues like applying it to other topics or on communicating results. The seminar brought together donors, implementing agencies and consultants, so that all understand the needs and challenges of each other. It was also well organized and good presentations.
You were one of the early adopters of results measurement in SDC. When did you start working on it and what made you take it up?
I joined SDC in 2008 and my position was created in response to the call for better results for the cooperation strategy; we needed to communicate better, aggregated results. 2008 was a learning year, with a lot of exchanges within the e+i network. After that, there was a significant effort to focus the approaches of projects in economic development, and we managed to harmonize the portfolio. It would have been more challenging if we had had a more diverse portfolio (with health for example). We still struggle to apply the same methods in our humanitarian aid, i.e., to harmonize results measurement across the portfolios.
What are your next plans concerning results measurement and the DCED standard?
We want to expand its application to Humanitarian Aid as well as deepen it in the project that are already applying it. It's also a good tool for our portfolio management: we have a simplified results chain, for which each project is like an intervention that feeds into our common goal of the e+i domain.
