Stories of change
Women's and feminist organisations and those of us who support their work need to know more about the achievements to which we contribute in order to explain why the role of these organisations is so important. For this reason, at Calala, inspired by the experience of other women's funds, we wanted to explore the Most Significant Change methodology.
This monitoring, evaluation and learning methodology involves collecting stories of change from people who have participated in a project, programme or organisation. Once the stories have been collected and the most significant changes have been identified, the narratives are read by a number of people involved in the process (either the participating storytellers themselves or other like-minded people), who discuss the value of these changes, selecting those stories that have the greatest impact or best reflect the changes that have been generated. In this way, the narratives allow for collective reflection and learning among the storytellers and other participants in the process.
The first step in this process has been to carry out a training process with the consultant Ángeles Cabria with a small group of organisations that we support, to learn together and build ways to evaluate and learn from our work from a feminist and non-extractivist perspective.
As part of this process, Ángeles has produced this Guide with which we want to share what we have learned with both the groups we support and with other organisations that are interested in learning about and adapting this methodology to understand how they too can contribute to social change.
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