Method: Collect the following data by conducting individual survey interviews with a representative sample of male and female members of the affected population. If you do not have the budget, you can conduct >=6 homogeneous focus group discussions with community members who represent diverse groups (e.g. male vs. female, wealthy vs. poor, old vs. young) and ask them to estimate the answer for their whole community.
Questions:
Note to the project team: Please remove all answer options that are not applicable.
In the past 12 months, have you voiced your perspectives in any of the following settings?
- Townhall or village development meeting (Yes/No)
- Community consultations in political decisions (Yes/No)
- Village development committees (Yes/No)
- Drafting of village development plans (Yes/No)
- Community Score Card (CSC) process to monitor services, empower community members and improve the accountability of service providers (Yes/No)
How to calculate:
If the response to any of the above options is “Yes”, then the person’s answer should be counted towards the indicator. The indicator value is the total count of community members who have voiced their perspectives in any of the meetings above (numerator) over the total count of community members (denominator).
What activities should the indicator be used for?
This indicator should be collected by projects that focus on strengthening civic participation, rights-based development or community development. Examples include projects that develop or strengthen community development committees.
