Circle Indonesia Information

CIRCLE Indonesia is a registered cooperative for civil society resources development, chartered on 26 February 2006 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. CIRCLE Indonesia pools together resources that are essential towards strengthening the Indonesian civil society. It provides program management, capacity building (through different means of capacity building strategy like training and technical assistance/mentoring) and research services across Indonesia and Timor Leste. It has particularly engaged in project design, monitoring and evaluation consultancy services for (NGOs), donors and the newly emerging Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. CIRCLE Indonesia is currently managing 30 members and tens of consultants who have more than 15 years of experience in various issues for those works. Below are the main areas of consultancy services has been provided by CIRCLE Indonesia in the recent years in Indonesia and Timor Leste as well:1. Participatory Program Planning Monitoring & EvaluationParticipatory approach in planning, monitoring and evaluation is a key to achieve sustainability of development interventions. CIRCLE Indonesia offers regular and on-demand M&E training (in-house training). In addition to providing training, CIRCLE Indonesia also facilitates organizations to develop Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems and support organizations to carry out the system. CIRCLE Indonesia has been introducing and promoting Result Based Management (RBM) approach in participatory Monitoring & Evaluation. Result based management was born out of criticism of resources based management for its inability to promote project accountability, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. The results based approach guides organization to ensure the process and program design to achieve desired results with mainstreaming of a more transparent and accountable approach. It also facilitates the working of performance monitoring and evaluation system.