An interactive virtual “High-Level and Practitioners” Exchange with Partners, Donors, Development Banks, UN, NGOs and Tech Companies
Remote Management, Monitoring and Verification (RMMV) approaches and tools allow us to implement humanitarian and international development projects under challenging circumstances. During the recent and current multiple crises – the pandemic, wars and climate change-induced natural disasters, to mention only a few –, the use of RMMV has increased dramatically.
With support of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Development Bank has been working for some time on co-creating together with its staff, partners and stakeholders a set of RMMV approaches, tools and practical instructions for the International Financial Cooperation to work and collaborate remotely. These recommendations based on our collective experience have been recently published in our RMMV Guidebook.
However, these recommendations go far beyond working at locations that are difficult to access because of conflict or disaster. They have proven to be equally useful for projects covering multiple sites or large areas. Its technologies are being used throughout digital transformation processes in all sectors and regions of the world. In addition, the sharp increase of RMMV within humanitarian and international development projects during the pandemic has further emphasized its relevance to important topics, such as citizen-centered accountability, gender and inclusion, delivery and supply-chain tracing, improving humanitarian and international development coordination and policy change.
Two years after the first RMMV conference, we gladly invite you to join us in a two-day interactive virtual exchange on 8th and 9th February 2023 to discuss our collective experience, lessons learnt as well as current trends, opportunities for collaboration and recommendations for the future. The event targets, among others, at partner governments, national project executing agencies, BMZ-implementing and donor agencies, foundations, development banks, NGO partners and consultants. It is part of the strategic network [digital.global] recently launched by BMZ.
What did we learn in remote progress monitoring in different sectors?
This theme is focussing on the practical experiences of the international development community in designing and implementing projects remotely in fragile, disaster and pandemic contexts: Which challenges and risks did we face? What worked well, what did not work? What did we learn for future project design? Which technical innovations are already in use? What do we need to be better prepared for in future crises?
How can we use RMMV to make projects more people-centred - from design to implementation?
This theme invites the participants to jointly reflect on international development cooperation's modus operandi and the power relationships between its main actors, stakeholders and target groups in remote modality: What can RMMV approaches and tools contribute to making projects more responsive to local population's and especially women's needs and contributions? How can RMMV be used to enable locally-led technology development? How can this be done efficiently? What is the role of Collective Intelligence Commons and how do we link them to our work?
How can RMMV improve impact and make it visible? How do we prevent negative external effects?
This theme serves for discussing the use of remote outcome, impact and do-no-harm monitoring tools and approaches for increasing the transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of international development cooperation: What did we learn during the last two years? Which tools are under development? How do we make them interoperable? What do we need to consider during planning and baseline data collection? What steps do we need to take in order to leverage our experiences for a greater joint impact?
Register now! Agenda (PDF, 320 KB, accessible)