IME Model
How is it measured?
The dimensions of the IME unlock the potential for program improvement and innovation, strengthening their implementation. The index is measured across eight dimensions: four intrasystemic and four intersystemic—that is, related to the external environment. To measure effectiveness, these dimensions are operationalized into subdimensions and indicators that identify standards for building pathways to improvement.
Intrasystemic Dimensions
Understanding trajectories requires examining the complexity of accumulated systemic failures in order to establish an appropriate baseline for a program's intervention plans. Accordingly, the Trajectory dimension focuses on the program's management capacity to interrupt harm and create a pathway of opportunities for its participants.
The Implementation dimension (Intervention Model) is a key factor in measuring the quality of program management. It focuses on assessing how well the program's approaches and tools are aligned across the different stages of intervention: intake, implementation and monitoring of activities, and program completion.
Team Autonomy focuses on the levels of security and motivation experienced by staff, as well as the degree of recognition they receive for their work. This dimension is fundamental to achieving program effectiveness: it is not possible to foster progressive autonomy among participants without promoting adequate levels of functional autonomy within the teams themselves.
Functional Trust focuses on roles and responsibilities, examining improvements or declines in the fulfillment of those roles at both the team and leadership levels. Building a climate of trust within the program is a fundamental condition for improving management quality.
Intersystemic Dimensions
Basic Operating Conditions focus on the quality of the program’s support management, including infrastructure, budget, and staffing.
Territorial Conditions: the success of an intervention depends on the program’s meaningful connection with services and opportunities available in the territory, taking into account the availability and quality of services and the opportunity pathways that participants can access at the municipal, regional, or national level.
Functional Coordination: the challenge of this dimension is to improve coordination between programs and sectors, as well as within each program, incorporating a decentralizing perspective that contributes to agile and effective coordination.
Regulatory Systems: this dimension focuses on the legal, regulatory, budgetary, and administrative functioning of the program.
Each dimension includes a three-level effectiveness rubric: alert (below the functional minimum), functional minimum (basic compliance), and effectiveness (optimal implementation). The system applies a hierarchical averaging method that makes it possible to obtain analyses at the indicator, subdimension, dimension, and program levels.
A Transferable Model
The components transferred include: the multidimensional effectiveness measurement model (rubrics); the IME measurement and reporting platform; the training program for directors and teams; and the institution's website, integrated with the IME and CLIPP websites.
To ensure successful adoption of the model within an organization, a series of implementation stages has been designed and can be adapted to each type of user: organizational diagnosis and contextual validation, methodological refinement, adaptation of the technological platform, team training, pilot implementation, technical support, and project closure.
