Assessing our performance
Photo: John Sones/OxfamAUS
We're committed to ending poverty and injustice, but how do we know if we're succeeding or being as effective as we can be?
By ensuring we’re undertaking effective planning, monitoring and evaluation, and by being accountable to our key stakeholders.
These being the people and communities living in poverty we work with; our donors and supporters; our partners and allies; our staff, volunteers and the wider public. And we take this commitment very seriously.
To assess our global impact, we firstly need to be clear about what we plan to achieve – outlined in our strategic plan – and secondly, what success looks like. For us, ultimate success is achieving positive change in the lives of people living in poverty.
Most importantly, by assessing our impact we learn from what we do, so we can do it better, and reach more people in need.
As an organisation we are committed to transparency and honesty about our performance, so in addition to publicising our plans and evaluations we also invite feedback and complaints about our performance from all stakeholders.
We monitor and evaluate our programs, advocacy initiatives and campaigns to assess how they are contributing towards changing people’s lives. By doing this we are able to assess if our work is having a positive impact and verify that we are observing the codes of conduct and standards that guide our work.
A key part of this is empowering our local partner organisations and the poor communities with which we work to hold us to account for our performance and the commitments we make to them.
Through these processes we are accountable for the money entrusted to us by our donors.
Read on to find out how we're performing.