Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Support to Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME)
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Support to Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME)
With its Alliance Partners, GAME has targeted creating 10 million mass entrepreneurs, 50% of whom will be women, who, in turn, will create 50 million jobs by 2030. GAME aims to build a narrative around mass entrepreneurship and catalyze efforts to create a thriving environment resulting in large-scale job creation through:
- inputs at the local ecosystem level and responsiveness to the needs of entrepreneurs (market & credit linkages, peer networks, mentorship, etc.),
- making entrepreneurship aspirational from a young age (mainstreaming entrepreneurial mindset & skill curriculum in schools, colleges, ITIs), and
- creating an environment conducive to entrepreneurship (reducing regulatory burden for MSMEs, amplifying success stories, policy advocacy).
Sambodhi has been engaged as the MEL partner of GAME in the following processes:
- Designing MEL architecture and identifying KPIs (outputs, outcomes, impact) and developing theories of change for local and national task forces (workstreams)
- Developing and deploying data collection tools for evaluation of the Accelerator Program (Xcelerator) in Bangalore and Ludhiana (local workstreams)
- Baseline and endline assessments across three national task forces (workstreams) such as finance, ease of doing Business, entrepreneurial mindsets & skills
- Systems thinking and developing strategy maps across workstreams for developing an ecosystem map that captures fundamental behavior using force field analysis helps various task forces (workstreams) identify opportunities & red flags. Identifying strategies (causal, persuasive, supportive) to target individuals, groups, and ecosystems, envisage outcomes, and understand the balance between systems across workstreams
- Process dipsticks for assessing the influence of context – Implementation (dose, fidelity, reach) and mechanisms (response, mediators, pathways) on task forces’ performance
- Need-based rapid assessments (Case Studies, Network Analysis, Most Significant Change, Appreciative Inquiry)