Learning, adaptation and flexibility are KEY drivers for effective and responsive programming. Punitive and rigid funding and reporting frameworks are shown by the literature to inhibit organisational learning. Sonja Giese highlights critical enablers for funding data-driven programmes in ECD that came out of the DataDrive2030 funders symposium. I love this point: "Adequate investment is needed in the full data value chain, and for the full duration of the learning journey. Enabling funding practices include multi-year grants, budgets appropriately matched to the data needs of the organisation, support for core capacity and sufficient flexibility within budgets to accommodate data informed course correction." Data is only powerful when organisations have the agency and support from funders to act on it.
Thank you to the Independent Philanthropy Association of South Africa for publishing these 👇 insights from our Executive Director, Sonja Giese, on how a data-driven funding strategy can help scale ECD programs that work, maximizing impact and ultimately closing the opportunity gaps in early childhood. Read it in full here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dU3fWf-k
Thank you for sharing Jess