10th Global RCE Conference 2016_Session 7

1. Open Framework for
Evaluation of the
Multistakeholder Initiatives
Evaluating ESD in RCEs: The Start-up Tools

2. Long history of development of RCE
evaluation approaches
Multiple discussions and publications as well as applying various evaluations in different RCEs
in Asia, Africa and Europe
The approach is co-developed and tested in SADC RCEs
 More information on RCE evaluation philosophy and approaches - 10 Year of RCE Book
(http://www.rce-
network.org/portal/sites/default/files/public_resource/01_UNU_10yearsBook_web.pdf)

3. Emergent approach to evaluation –
open-ended hybrid evaluation
 The combined and integrated evaluative approaches
include:
 documentation of how an RCE had developed up to this point -
constitutive evaluation,
 inquiry into the RCE’s successes, coordination and collaborative
learning - appreciative and developmental evaluation,
 and value creation assessment of the RCE’s overall work.

4. The approach used to structure this appreciative
and developmental evaluation framework is
focused on the three core areas:
 The context in which the RCE has been created (with reference to application
for RCE acknowledgement)
 The key activities and ESD practices that have been initiated by the RCE
 The outcomes and impacts amongst those intended to benefit from particular
programmes

5. The goals of evaluation are three-fold:
 To collectively learn through an appreciative review of an RCE (documented
in Evaluation Report)
 To improve transformative learning and sustainability (recorded as Case
Study evidence of value creation activities)
 To strengthen work of the RCEs as a networked community (reflected in
Capacity development training strategy)

6. Six Steps in Evaluation

7. Discussion Focus Expected
learning
Expected
outcome
Discussion 1 – Constitutive
evaluation of RCE
networking and
coordination
The core elements of the RCEs –
governance and networking, key
strategies and activities
Understanding of evolution of the RCE’s
coordination and networked activities.
The participants have
sufficient details to
discuss what could be
done to improve existing
RCE programmes
Discussion 2 –
Appreciative review of
activities and their
effects
Review of RCE’s activities and
their effects/results
Understanding of results of RCEs
activities
Ideas for continuation
of promising projects
and for new regional
collaboration
Discussion 3 –
Developmental review
of RCE’s processes and
their impact
How sustainable RCE activities and what
do they add to the sustainability of the
region?
Understanding of a) sustainability
of RCE activities and b) their
contribution to transformation
and sustainability of the region
ideas for
improvement of RCEs
resources and
activities
Discussion 4 –
Developmental review
of learning, impact and
strategy
co-production of new knowledge to
better steer sustainable ways of being
in the world together
Focus areas, partnerships, needed
capacity, etc. for actions
Agreed collaborative
actions
Discussion 5 –
Appreciative and
developmental review
of networking
practices
Networking activities with the Service
Centre and other RCEs as well as other
networks and processes
Understanding of how engagement
with networks outside of own
collaboration supports the work of
the RCE partnership
Suggestions for
collaborative actions
with other RCEs and
RCE Service Centre
Discussion 6 – review of
value creation
Open discussion; focus on any area that was
not covered in previous discussions
Understanding of how value added by
the RCE is seen and appreciated
Agreement of use of data
generated through
discussions and on follow
up plan of actions

8. Discussion 1 –
Constitutive evaluation
of RCE networking and
coordination
The core elements of the RCEs –
governance and networking, key
strategies and activities in their
dynamics
Understanding of evolution of
the RCE’s coordination and
networked activities.
The participants have sufficient
details for them to discuss what
could be done to improve existing
RCE programmes

9. Discussion 2 –
Appreciative
review of activities
and their effects
Review of RCE’s
activities and their
effects/results
Understanding of results
of RCEs activities
Ideas for continuation of
promising projects and
for new regional
collaboration

10. Discussion 3 –
Developmental review of
RCE’s processes and their
impact
How sustainable RCE
activities and what do
they add to the
sustainability of the
region?
Understanding of a) sustainability of
RCE activities and b) their
contribution to transformation and
sustainability of the region
Ideas for improvement
of RCEs resources and
activities

11. Discussion 4 –
Developmental review of
learning, impact and
strategy
co-production of new knowledge
to better steer sustainable ways
of being in the world together
Focus areas,
partnerships, needed
capacity, etc. for
actions
Agreed collaborative
actions

12. Discussion 5 –
Developmental
review of
networking
practices
Networking activities
with the Service Centre
and other RCEs
Understanding of how
engagement with
networks outside of
own collaboration
supports the work of
the RCE partnership
Suggestions for
collaborative actions
with other RCEs and
RCE Service Centre

13. Discussion 6
– review of
value
creation
Open discussion;
focus on any area
that was not
covered in previous
discussions
Understanding of
how value added by
the RCE is seen and
appreciated?
Agreement of use of
data generated
through discussions
and on follow up plan
of actions

14. Discussion Focus Expected
learning
Expected
outcome
Discussion 1 – Constitutive
evaluation of RCE
networking and
coordination
The core elements of the RCEs –
governance and networking, key
strategies and activities
Understanding of evolution of the RCE’s
coordination and networked activities.
The participants have
sufficient details to
discuss what could be
done to improve existing
RCE programmes
Discussion 2 –
Appreciative review of
activities and their
effects
Review of RCE’s activities and
their effects/results
Understanding of results of RCEs
activities
Ideas for continuation
of promising projects
and for new regional
collaboration
Discussion 3 –
Developmental review
of RCE’s processes and
their impact
How sustainable RCE activities and what
do they add to the sustainability of the
region?
Understanding of a) sustainability
of RCE activities and b) their
contribution to transformation
and sustainability of the region
ideas for
improvement of RCEs
resources and
activities
Discussion 4 –
Developmental review
of learning, impact and
strategy
co-production of new knowledge to
better steer sustainable ways of being
in the world together
Focus areas, partnerships, needed
capacity, etc. for actions
Agreed collaborative
actions
Discussion 5 –
Appreciative and
developmental review
of networking
practices
Networking activities with the Service
Centre and other RCEs as well as other
networks and processes
Understanding of how engagement
with networks outside of own
collaboration supports the work of
the RCE partnership
Suggestions for
collaborative actions
with other RCEs and
RCE Service Centre
Discussion 6 – review of
value creation
Open discussion; focus on any area that was
not covered in previous discussions
Understanding of how value added by
the RCE is seen and appreciated
Agreement of use of data
generated through
discussions and on follow
up plan of actions

15. The goals of evaluation
 To collectively learn through an appreciative review of an RCE (documented
in Evaluation Report)
 To improve transformative learning and sustainability (recorded as Case
Study evidence of value creation activities)
 To strengthen work of the RCEs as a networked community (reflected in
Capacity development training strategy)