There is an increased demand in result measurement in order to assess the effectiveness of development aid. Furthermore, as a project manager the strategic use for your decision-making and improving your programs performances can be greatly enhanced with a solid result measurement and monitoring approach.
Besides this, reporting on the results is increasingly gaining on importance, especially in the field of vocational skills development (VSD), where it is difficult to evidence outcomes. However, VSD will only benefit from public support if its effects are credibly demonstrated.
Therefore this page provides information about two different sets of indicators for VSD projects and programmes:
1) Aggregated Reference Indicators (ARI) to monitor the dispatch on Switzerland's International Cooperation 2017–2020.
2) Common Outcome Indicators (COI) for the steering, results measurement and reporting on programme level and cooperation strategy level.
The employment and income network (e+i network) supports VSD reporting efforts with a working aid on Common Outcome Indicators (COI) for:
- Gainful employment
- Systemic change
- Relevance of Training
- Outreach
The COI strictly focus on the outcome level and do not replace or compete with existing instruments for planning, results measurement and M&E, but aim at simplifying them. Thus, this working aid provides an easy-to-use support instrument for all phases of the project cycle for SDC's VSD programmes. It facilitates the steering of and standardized reporting on SDC programmes.
In addition to the
COI working aid there is an Excel-based monitoring grid to gather COI data and an
example of the Employment Fund project in Nepal.
COI- Working Aid (PDF)
February 2014
COI- Monitoring Grid (XLSX)
February 2014
COI- Monitoring Grid (PDF)
February 2014
