Deirdre Tobin from Volunteer Missionary Movement (VMM) talks about VMM's Programme Capacity Building consultations at Dóchas "How We Did It" seminar (12 April 2011, Dublin) Capacity Building

3. Sierra Leone South Sudan Kenya Tanzania Uganda Zambia Malawi South Africa Philippines Philippines Where we work

5. Goals & Programmes Goal 1: Overseas Programmes-Diocesean Development, Community Development, Health & Education Goal 2: Home Programmes- Development Education, Member Action Goal 3: Organsiational Programmes-Organisational Development & Mission Resource Services

6. Programmatic Approach VMM’s previous focus was addressing requests for lay personnel & lay missionaries The overall setting for the Framework is within the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Framework By 2013, we aim to have clustered volunteers in areas of need in Africa and to have reduced our project partners by half

7. Realisation that we would need to change the way we work. VMM under the programmatic approach would need to gather data on results & outcomes and not just activities of VM. VMM needed to assess the impact of placing VMs in partner at local levels up to the MDGs.

10. What was covered by the PCBs Filling out the 20 page questionnaire covering the following: -Background Info on the Org -Problem Analysis -Financial and Legal Structures -Polices -VMM Contribution- ‘the wish list’ -Beneficiaries (Direct/Indirect, Male/Female) -Risk Analysis -Cross cutting Issues -Linkages -M&E

11. PCB Visits -August & September 2010 -14 PCBs to 22 partners -Over 220 days spent directly with partners in these two months - Total cost: €20,600

12. Programme Capacity Building & Partner visits

15. What next? Programme Capacity Building Partner Capacity Building