This is a presentation given by Enrique Mendizabal at the Impact to Insight meeting co-ordinated by ODI's RAPID group and held at King's College.

2. the outcome mapping story 2 nd Impact and Insight Meeting, London, 2007

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5. opportunities for P,M,E and learning beginning Life cycle of the program end during objectives, inputs, activities results, outputs, impact

7. Impact (changes in environmental or social conditions) Objectives (activities, products) Outcome Challenges (changes in behaviour) Life cycle of the program different approaches Logical Frame Analysis Results based Mgt

8. the problem with « impact » Impact implies Development Implies Cause & effect Open system Positive, intended results Unexpected positive & negative results occur Focus on ultimate effects Upstream effects are important Credit goes to a single contributor Multiple actors create results & need credit Story ends when program obtains success Change process never ends

11. What are we trying to accomplish and how? What do we want to learn? How do we know we are on-track?

12. OM’s response to 4 key planning questions vision boundary partners outcomes challenges and progress markers mission, strategy map, organizational practices Why? Who? What? How?

13. key ideas in

17. How can we increase our knowledge of the processes we engage in? How can we know if we made a difference? How can we recognize contributors and share the credit? In the face of this complexity:

20. recognize the limits of your influence Program = boundary partners The rest of the world

21. nested spheres Adapted from: Steff Deprez VVOB-CEGO, Nov 2006 sphere of control sphere of influence sphere of interest Project Boundary partners Ultimate beneficiaries

22. focus of outcome mapping Behavioural Changes community capacity & ownership increases program influence decreases

26. Therefore, think contribution not attribution! development involves complex interactions & you can influence but not control your partners (They are NOT like billiard balls!)

27. An example Girls & Women Community Leaders Women’s Self Help Groups Families Police State NGOs Banks Public Health Clinics Strategic Partners Strategies Project’s Outcomes Boundary Partners BP’s outcomes BAIF mission vision

28. M&E

29. Accountability & Learning: A Balancing Act

30. Accountability & Learning: A Balancing Act

31. planning and assessment possibilities in OM Program (performance journal) Partner (outcome journal) outcomes (behaviour changes in the partners) implementation (interventions by the program) relevance & viability (of the program) contextual information situational data Strategies (strategy journal)

32. reviewing the intentional design 1. Read the vision statement Does this still reflect the program's dream? 2. Read the mission statement Is this the greatest contribution our program can make? Have we been doing this? Why? Why not? Should we add anything or take anything away? 3. Review boundary partners Is this who we are working with directly? Do we need to add or drop any boundary partners? 4. Review outcomes Do these accurately reflect transformations in our boundary partners as they strengthen their contributions to the vision? 5. Review progress markers Was the change process we set out accurate and useful? What now needs to be added or taken out? 6. Review strategies What did we plan to do? Have we implemented these activities? Do we need to add, remove any? 7. Review organizational practices Are we doing everything we can to maintain & enhance our capacity to support our partners?

33. ongoing OM applications http://www.outcomemapping.ca Ghana Korea Switzerland Kenya Ecuador United Kingdom Madagascar Mexico Brussels Mali Egypt Netherlands Namibia Bhutan Australia Uganda Honduras Sri Lanka Zimbabwe Guatemala India

34. What are we trying to accomplish and how? What do we want to learn? How do we know we are on-track?

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