Agenda item

To consider a report of the Chief Grants Officer.

The Committee considered a report of the Chief Grants Officer which recommended how Members would monitor the Investing in Londoners’ programmes and strengthen grant-holder compliance, funding effectiveness, and learning.

RESOLVED –That

a)  all Investing in Londoners’ applicants be required to submit a monitoring framework when they request funding from the Trust;

b)  officers be asked to provide sample monitoring frameworks and guidance notes for applicants on the Trust’s website;

c)  where appropriate, funding be made conditional on an organisation receiving capacity-building support with their monitoring and evaluation work;

d)  officers be asked to provide details of organisations providing monitoring and evaluation capacity-building services on the Trust’s website;

e)  current programme of 70 Monitoring Visits for 2013-14 (which will include a proportion of additional verification checks in line with the recommendations of Internal Audit) be maintained  but then discontinue this from 2014-15 onwards and in its place introduce:

                                          i.     a new programme of 40 Project Visits to see Trust-funded work in action and to meet beneficiaries;

                                        ii.    a new programme of 70 Compliance Monitoring Visits;

f)   officers be asked to commission two independent programmatic evaluations to undertake in-depth reviews of what works and how your programmes might evolve;

g)  officers be asked to continue the Trust’s programme of 25 Unannounced Visits each year;

h)  officers be asked to undertake post-holder spot-checks for 25% of grants made to organisations for posts of 17 hours per week or more; and

i)    officers be required to report monitoring and evaluation work and issues arising through your Committee meetings.