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First National Survey of the Digital Creative Industry with Gender Perspective

Project ID: 2018-1112

Name of applicant:

Corporación Instituto de Arte y Comunicación Arcos Education

Country of applicant:

Chile

Type of applicant:

NGO

Amount requested:

98.770,00

Beneficiary country(ies):

Chile

Status:

Non Recommended

Total Score: 23.5

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Project Applications submitted by INGOs do not require the pre-selection of a National Commission.

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Eligibility | Technical Assessment

IFCD Eligibility form - p-cambier - 05/31/2018 - 09:38

Submitted by p-cambier on 31 May 2018

Eligibility Status:

Eligible

Technical Examination

Submitted by the deadline:

Yes

Application Form submitted either in English or French:

Yes

Maximum amount requested is US$ 100,000 or below:

Yes

Project implementation period is between 12 and 24 months:

Yes

All sections of the Form are completed:

Yes

Signature of applicant:

Yes

The applicant does not have an ongoing IFCD funded project:

Yes

Falls within the areas of intervention of IFCD:

Yes

IF PARTY OR NGO

Party to the 2005 Convention from developing countries:

Yes

Official document/ statutes (with English or French translation if necessary):

Yes

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Experts Evaluations

EVALUATION GRID
8 points	The project proposal addresses perfectly all relevant aspect of the criterion under consideration. The answer provides all the information needed and there are no concerns or areas of weakness
6-7 points	The proposal addressed the criterion well, although some improvements could be made. The answer gives clear information on all or nearly all of the evidence needed.
5-4 points	The project proposal broadly addresses the criterion, but there are still some weaknesses. The answer gives some relevant information, but there are several areas where detail is lacking or the information is unclear.
3-2 points	The project proposal does not entirely address the criterion or cannot be judged properly due to missing or incomplete information. The answer does not necessarily address the question asked, or gives very little relevant information.
1 point	The project proposal barely addresses the criterion. There is a clear lack of relevant information that makes it extremely difficult to judge whether the question asked is addressed.
0 points	The project proposal fails to address the criterion or cannot be assessed due to the lack of pertinent information. The answer does not address the question asked, or does not provide relevant information.

Expert 1

Sub-Total Expert 1 : 12.5

IFCD Expert Evaluation form - - 06/12/2018 - 12:57

Submitted by on 12 Jun 2018

Brief summary of the project:

A cultural educational institution wants to set up a unit (an observatory) to devise and conduct a survey in three leading cities about the position of women in the creative IT sector in Chile, to be followed up later on in the form of a longitudinal sequence.

1. RELEVANCE AND APPROPRIATENESS OF THE PROJECT TO THE OBJECTIVES AND AREAS OF INTERVENTION OF THE IFCD

1.1 Please describe how the project objectives and proposed impact/long-term benefits are aligned with at least one of the IFCD’s outcomes and associated expected results.:

The proposal responds to the item in the Call about “collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data with a view to better understand the underlying causes of gender inequality in the digital creative industries with a view to inform policy making”.

1.2 How do the objectives of this project proposal meet the current needs and priorities of the country/ region in terms of cultural policies and/or cultural industries?:

Mapping the state of the art is an important prerequisite to achieve changes in policies and strategies. Like elsewhere, the position of female entrepreneurs in the digital sector is a current challenge in Chile, too, and addressing it is an obvious priority.

1.3 To what extent are the project’s objectives specific and measurable?:

The objective to set up a unit and to conduct a national survey is concrete and can be easily monitored.

1.4 To what extent does the project contribute to the promotion of gender equality, the empowerment of youth, South-South and North-South-South cooperation and/or the participation of various groups in the areas of intervention of the IFCD?:

By definition, the project would contribute to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of young women. It would be confined to one country with no interregional cooperation.

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2. FEASIBILITY OF THE PROJECT, AS WELL AS THE RELEVANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ITS MODALITIES OF EXECUTION

2.1 What elements demonstrate the applicant’s organizational capacity (main activities of the institution/organization) and competence (skills and background of staff) to implement the work plan and manage the budget?:

Technically the organization appears to have the capacity to run the project. One would expect them to possess a server (or more) that is able to host the data of the national survey, even longitudinally across the years. The specific competence required for conducting a top quality survey is not obvious.

2.2 To what extent do the activities address relevant issues? Please explain how the methodology is appropriate to achieving the objectives?:

The approximate nature of the survey is difficult to figure out from the application. Is it mainly qualitative based on interviews (focus groups?) or statistical data collection? Is it about facts or also on viewpoints? Who would be interviewed: women in business? ICT specialists? administrators? What is the approximate number of surveyed persons? Is the main accent on the survey conducted during the 15 months, or on establishing the first leg of a longitudinal sequence in the future, or again on setting up an observatory?

2.3 To what extent is the time frame realistic and coherent with the activities?:

The steps related to the survey, starting from 1.2.1 review of existing sources (end October 2018) to 4.4.4 disseminating findings (end December 2019) are carefully and realistically assembled.

2.4 Have the direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project been clearly identified? To what extent are the outputs/deliverables and main activities relevant to the target beneficiaries and address their needs?:

The main stakeholders of the issue would be involved at the appropriate stages of designing the survey and they are listed as targets of the communication about the findings.

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3. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.1 Does the budget provide for adequate resources (salaries, fees, equipment, travel, communication, etc.) necessary for success of the project? If the budget has been overestimated or underestimated, please explain how.:

The budget raises a number of questions. I mentioned doubt about a separate server. 11101 and 11111 looks overestimated at an early phase of the project. Many of the tasks could normally be done by the staff for their salary (e.g. 1211, 1221, 1331, 2131, 2141, 3231, 4111, 4121, 4211, 4221). Maybe it is meant like that and maybe not.

3.2 What proportion of the budget is allocated to project activities versus overhead costs? Does the budget seem adequate and overhead costs estimated in compliance with the limit to a maximum of 30% of the total project budget?:

The overhead costs do not go beyond the 30% limit.

3.3 Does the project proposal indicate any additional financial contributions to the project, such as co-funding and/or self- funding?:

The applicant organization is planning to add another third in cash on top of the grant.

3.4 What actions have been foreseen to ensure financial accountability (e.g. Involvement of a financial officer)?:

The execution would be supervised along a complicated mechanism run by the managing bodies of the organization. A lump sum is projected for the financial supervision but no mention is made about day to day financial handling.

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4. IMPACT AND EXPECTED RESULTS, INCLUDING POTENTIAL FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE

4.1 Are the project’s expected outputs and/or deliverables concrete, measurable and realistic? To what extent are they likely to achieve the objectives of the project?:

Preparing, conducting the survey and disseminating its findings are concrete, measurable and realistic outputs. The structure and function of the observatory are less clearly defined, and the conditions to achieve for turning the survey into a longitudinal instrument are not determined.

4.2 To what extent are the main activities and the budget relevant and appropriate to achieving the intended outputs and/or deliverables?:

The activities and the budget allow for comfortable execution of the main task: preparing, conducting the survey and disseminating its findings. It would be helpful to get more clues about the nature of findings expected from the survey.

4.3 To what extent is it expected that this project will have an impact/long-term benefits on the country/region’s cultural policies and/or cultural industries?:

The nationwide survey about the conditions of young women in the digital creative industries carries the potential of long term impact. Especially if beyond mapping and exploring it is done creatively enough to bring forward important suggestions for change, and they are communicated successfully to decision makers and main actors in the business.

4.4 To what extent does the project demonstrate potential for structural change (for example: changes in the policy environment; far-reaching changes in public and professional organizational structures; and changes in the way government and regulatory authorities do business)?:

The potential for structural changes elicited by the findings of the survey is there.

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5. SUSTAINABILITY

5.1 To what extent are contractors and partners involved in the implementation of the project’s activities? Has the role of each contractor and/or partner been clearly described?:

As the contributors’ list is broken down into 69 lines in the budget the actual number of contributors and the distribution of tasks are difficult to find out. The exact composition of the staff of the observatory is not entirely clear, what they would carry out and what is planned to be outsourced to “contractors”.

5.2 How does the project relate to and/or complement the work that is already being carried out in the country/region in terms of cultural policies and/or industries?:

We learn from the proposal that the creative economy fields are prioritized in Chile as the 9º strategic sector for development and there is a National Plan of Creative Economy. This suggests opportunities to connect to national executive and legislative bodies when advocating for improving the conditions of involving young women into the creative industries.

5.3 What measures/steps are proposed to ensure that the project’s impact/long-term benefits can be achieved?:

The intention is there to find sponsors for the continuation of the activities and the consolidation of the observatory.

5.4 What measures/steps are proposed to follow up with the beneficiaries of the project after its completion?:

The observatory is supposed to be established with the aim of going forward towards longitudinal surveying but no milestones or exact aims are given at this stage.

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Overall evaluation:

The phases of conducting a national exploratory survey about the role of women in the creative economy – with the ambition of stating a multiyear longitudinal process – are designed with care on the basis of an institution that possesses the necessary competence for managing projects like this. The distribution of tasks and competences, including their financial sides requires further clarification – maybe correction – and some more light should be shed on the content and expected outcome of the survey.

Expert 2

Sub-Total Expert 2 : 11

IFCD Expert Evaluation form - C_VILLASENOR - 07/03/2018 - 05:36

Submitted by C_VILLASENOR on 03 Jul 2018

Brief summary of the project:

The main objective of the project is the design, data collection, analysis and presentation of results, of the first survey of the digital creative industry with a gender perspective. The project also considers economic resources for the habilitation of an office and the equipment acquisition. (computer, server and computer program).

1. RELEVANCE AND APPROPRIATENESS OF THE PROJECT TO THE OBJECTIVES AND AREAS OF INTERVENTION OF THE IFCD

1.1 Please describe how the project objectives and proposed impact/long-term benefits are aligned with at least one of the IFCD’s outcomes and associated expected results.:

ER 4.2. Specific policy measures and /or funding mechanisms are introduced to encourage and improve equitable access to cultural activities, goods and services: The project will produce a baseline of statistical information, disaggregated by sex and differentiated geographically by the cities in which the digital creative Industry is developed (Santiago, Valparaíso y Concepción), that will allow a deeper understanding of the causes of the participation gap of women in digital creative industries and, consequently, design and implement more appropriate policy measures to reduce this gap. That objective is also one that can be considered for financing by the U40 Empowered fund.

1.2 How do the objectives of this project proposal meet the current needs and priorities of the country/ region in terms of cultural policies and/or cultural industries?:

The proponent presents two identical letters of support, one from the Center for Women's Studies (CEM) and the National Development Corporation (CORFO) and refers to the creation of the Digital Agenda 2020, which seeks to make Chile a digitally. Competitive country. Also, the proponent mentions a series of initiatives of the private sector, which require better data and information, in order to have a better understanding of the causes of the lack of presence of women in the digital creative industry. Although it is mentioned in the text, the applicant does not elaborate on the National Plan for Creative Economy and how the project could complement previously existing information (for example, the Ministry of Cultures has published many statistical reports on the economic impact of the creative economy in Chile, a creative industries mapping, etc.) or the specific policies derived from that already approved national plan.

1.3 To what extent are the project’s objectives specific and measurable?:

The objectives are specific enough. Although the project does not present a parameter with which it can be contrasted, the scope of each of the objectives can be measured.

The project will involve the participation of various groups but will not directly contribute into the aforementioned areas, however it could provide a baseline of information from which policies and instruments that promote the reduction of gender gaps and the empowerment of youth can be designed; as well as, it can promote S-S and N-S cooperation.

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2. FEASIBILITY OF THE PROJECT, AS WELL AS THE RELEVANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ITS MODALITIES OF EXECUTION

Arcos Art and Culture Corporation Institute, is an educational institution in the areas of film, photography, music, acting, design, multimedia and stage production, with 30 years of experience and with campuses in the cities of Santiago and Vina del Mar. The project will be directly executed by the staff of the "Observatory of Education, Creativity and Culture", with the collaboration of external professionals, and the support of the Center for Women's Studies (CEM) and the National Development Corporation (CORFO). Although the team that will be in charge of the project has professionals from the social areas (journalism, anthropology, political science, psychology and sociology), it is considered that there would be a need to collaborate with professionals from the areas directly related to the design of surveys, its implementation and statistical analysis, such as actuarial, economics and applied mathematics.

2.2 To what extent do the activities address relevant issues? Please explain how the methodology is appropriate to achieving the objectives?:

Mainly all the activities address relevant issues with the exception of those included into project´s Objective #1, related with the office enabling for project´s team, office-furniture purchase, informatic equipment purchase and the development and maintenance of the Education, Creativity and Culture Observatory Web platform, for a total amount of $ 16,400, because there are not sufficiently justified as necessary for the project´s main objective implementation. Project´s Objective #2 is where a direct starting point for the survey appears, consisting in the review and analysis of studies and secondary databases, in order to identify areas, problems and variables that may explain gender inequality in the creative industries. The subsequent actions consist of a series of validation processes of the results of the first investigation, by users and experts, to finally conclude with the elaboration and socialization of a report that shows the areas, problems and variables that have been selected to be the basis for the development and implementation of the survey, which will be carried out only as part of the actions of objective 3. Therefore, it seems that the survey is not the product of previous research and diagnosis, but that the survey´s contents and scope begin to be identified and defined only from the project itself. Based on this methodology, is difficult to understand how the office enabling, and the furniture and equipment purchase are related to the objective of developing a survey. Even is possible to think about the possibility that at the end of the process of validating the survey´s contents and scope, it could be concluded that a new survey is not necessary or is that is not the most appropriate mechanism to deepen the information on the causes of gender inequality in the digital creative industries of Chile.

2.3 To what extent is the time frame realistic and coherent with the activities?:

Many of the activities present very short execution times. Especially those related to the application of the survey, the capture of data to the software, the processing of data, its systematization and analysis, which cover a total of three months only.

The project refers primarily to the Observatory of Education, Creativity and Culture (ARCOS) as the direct beneficiary. The Center for Women's Studies, the National Development Corporation and the Ministry of Culture -among others- are referred to as indirect beneficiaries. The outputs and main activities address the Arco´s Institute Observatory of Education, Creativity and Culture needs and will be helpful for CORFO and MEC work, as stated into their support letters.

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3. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

As part of project´s Objective 1, it has been included the acquisition of a very powerful computer equipment (expenditure numbers 1.1.5.1, 1.1.6.1 and 1.1.7.1), for a total amount of $10,900 dollars. It´s noted that the equipment purchase is planned and concluded before having defined the survey´s content and questionnaire, the size of the sample that will be necessary to develop a representative and reliable statistical methodology, nor the volume of data that will be processed.

The budget includes a specified overhead amount that represent 7% of the total requested amount for overhead costs, which is in compliance with the maximum of 30%of the total project budget.

3.3 Does the project proposal indicate any additional financial contributions to the project, such as co-funding and/or self- funding?:

The project proposal indicates in cash contributions from ARCOS Corporation.

3.4 What actions have been foreseen to ensure financial accountability (e.g. Involvement of a financial officer)?:

Arcos has an adequate pre-defined administrative process and a staff of professionals with experience in projects implementation with external financing. For the equipment acquisition, the Corporation has a Logistics Unit focused on transparency and competitive processes. In the case of consultancies hiring, the procedure requires a public announcement, selection by the ad-hoc internal committee. The contracts entered into comply with the World Bank process standard. Based on the foregoing, it is not clear to the evaluator if the procedures for equipment acquisition and contracting of consultants has been done previously to the project or will be done once this has started, because the equipment to be purchased and the participant consultants are already specified in the application format.

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4. IMPACT AND EXPECTED RESULTS, INCLUDING POTENTIAL FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE

4.1 Are the project’s expected outputs and/or deliverables concrete, measurable and realistic? To what extent are they likely to achieve the objectives of the project?:

The project´s expected outputs are concrete, deliverable, realistic, measurable and are likely to achieve the project´s objectives.

4.2 To what extent are the main activities and the budget relevant and appropriate to achieving the intended outputs and/or deliverables?:

The main activities, with the above-mentioned exceptions, are appropriate to achieve the outputs.

4.3 To what extent is it expected that this project will have an impact/long-term benefits on the country/region’s cultural policies and/or cultural industries?:

Is not possible to properly understand if the project will have an impact on the country´s cultural or creative industry´s policies, because the content and scope of the survey will be defined as part of the project´s implementation. If the process is as planned, a technical team will be formed in each of the three participating cities and the survey will provide a relevant and useful database for understanding the causes that are behind the gender equality gap in the creative industries of the cities of Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción, facilitating the design of public policies that support the reduction of such gap.

If some methodological adjustments are made, the project could have a potential to produce changes into the available base line information about women participation into the digital creative industries of Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepción.

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5. SUSTAINABILITY

5.1 To what extent are contractors and partners involved in the implementation of the project’s activities? Has the role of each contractor and/or partner been clearly described?:

The project has no declared partners. The contractor´s role is not clearly described.

5.2 How does the project relate to and/or complement the work that is already being carried out in the country/region in terms of cultural policies and/or industries?:

The proponent presents support letters, one from the Center for Women's Studies (CEM) and the National Development Corporation (CORFO) and refers to the creation of the Digital Agenda 2020, which seeks to make Chile a digitally. Competitive country. Although it is mentioned in the text, the applicant does not elaborate on how the project could contribute with the National Plan for Creative Economy policies or available information.

5.3 What measures/steps are proposed to ensure that the project’s impact/long-term benefits can be achieved?:

1) create communication strategies and a media management plan, for the product dissemination and the permanent promotion of policy guidelines. (2) Constantly looking for financing strategies to continue with the survey´s update. (3) Consolidate the Observatorio de Educación, Creatividad y Cultura as the executing agency of the survey

5.4 What measures/steps are proposed to follow up with the beneficiaries of the project after its completion?:

Constitution of annual meetings to open interinstitutional dialogues about gender inequalities in the digital creative industry ; Continue with the survey´s update, to monitor evolution on the gaps and to better explain gender inequality in the digital creative industry; Publication of reports bases on the survey; Development of studies and publications with results related to the implementation of public policies formulated through the information obtained by the survey;

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Overall evaluation:

The project is designed to address the existing need for solid and sufficient information to know the causes of the gap in the participation of women in Chile's digital creative industries, Unfortunately it abounds in descriptions about the context, but it is not very clear in defining how each one of the actions will be carried out, what will be the role of the consultants and what concrete and measurable results will be obtained in each stage. Since the definition of the content and the scope of the survey are part of the same project, it is not possible to evaluate more accurately the relevance and usefulness of the survey or its impact into cultural or creative industries policies, and to evaluate if there´s the need to develop a new survey or if other institutions already have some information (for example, the Ministry of Cultures) that only need to be updated and/or organized in a different way. It is suggested that the applicant carefully assess if it is really needed to set up an office, buy furniture and computer equipment, such as the initial actions of the project; or if it is better address in first place the survey´s design and the best way to implement it. It is also suggested to review all the costs involved in these expense items. Due to the above-mentioned, the project can only be considered for financing if it is presented in a subsequent call of the IFCD / U40 Empower, having already made the necessary adjustments.

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Recommandation review

IFCD Recommendation form - - 06/12/2018 - 17:58

Submitted by on 12 Jun 2018

Recommendation Status:

Non recommended

Evaluation summary:

As a result, your application was considered to be eligible and therefore has been sent for evaluation to the Panel of Experts appointed by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Unfortunately, it was not recommended for funding. For more details, please check experts' evaluation.