Monitoring tool: Community generated FORB indicators
Are you looking for a tool to help monitor and capture change in FORB related projects?
This tool provides practical support for organisations wanting to develop community-generated, localized indicators to better understand and measure change in the area of Freedom of Religion or Belief, and related areas as religious equality, coexistence, inclusion, and participation. Conventional monitoring and evaluation systems often rely on standardized indicators designed for cross-country comparability and donor reporting. This often fails to capture the nuanced, context-dependent nature of social change in complex environments where religious identity, power structures, and cultural norms intersect.
The tool aims to offer a simple, structured approach that enables various stakeholders to articulate the everyday signals of progress that they consider meaningful. These locally grounded indicators complement standard project or donor indicators by capturing subtle, context-specific shifts.
The tool offers a step-by-step process for generating, analysing, and using these community generated indicators with the aim to strengthen the ability to:
- Recognise context-specific signs of progress
- Document changes that matter to communities
- Feed localized evidence into adaptive management
- Complement donor/ global frameworks.
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This tool has been developed as part of a FORB Learning Review where a team of consultants have analyzed learnings and best practices from over 40 FORB projects in the CKU and Digni portfolios. The review included desk studies, online surveys, key informant interviews and nine focus group discussions, where the tool was piloted and tested. The first product was a report with the main findings and recommendations, published in October 2025.
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The development of the report and tool were commissioned and funded by CKU and Digni, members of NORFORB, the network behind the FORB Learning Platform.
