FIDC I Résultats du dernier cycle

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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”.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The project proposal indicates in cash contributions from ARCOS Corporation.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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;