Brief overview of Outcome Mapping as Monitoring and Evaluation for National Learning Alliance
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The focus of evaluation in not-for-profit organization has shifted in recent years from administrative data to outcome measurement, impact evaluation, and sustainability (Aspen Institute, 2000), thus a shift from short-term to long-term effects of interventions. Evaluators in the not-for-profit sector view their world as the combination of technical knowledge, communication skills, and political savvy that can make or break the utility and value of the program under consideration. Evaluation in not-for-profit settings tends to value the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and generally working together. This chapter is meant to provide a glimpse at a minor portion of the evaluation efforts that take place in the not-for-profit sector. It excludes, for example, the efforts in public education, but does provide some context for workforce development efforts.
CONTRAST OF CONTEXTS
Evaluation in not-for-profit settings tends to have different criteria for the judgment of its worth than is typically found in corporate and similar settings. Such criteria are likely to include the following:
How useful is the evaluation?
Is the evaluation feasible and practical?
Does the evaluation hold high ethical principles?
Does the evaluation measure the right things, and is it accurate?
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Brief overview of Outcome Mapping as Monitoring and Evaluation for National Learning Alliance
- 1. andManaged byFunded by Brief overview of Outcome Mapping as Monitoring and Evaluation for National Learning Alliance Samson Eshetu Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop ILRI, Addis Ababa, 27-28 March 2017
- 2. andManaged byFunded by Definitions of key terms used in Outcome Mapping • Outcomes: Changes in the relationships, activities, actions, or behaviours of boundary partners that may be linked to a programme’s activities, although they are not necessarily directly caused by it. • Outcome Mapping (OM): is a participatory methodology for planning, monitoring and evaluation, which focuses upon people and organizations. • Outcome challenges: the description of the desired changes in the behaviour, relationships, activities, and/or actions of a boundary partner, as identified through the participatory OM process. It is the programme’s challenge to help bring about the changes • Vision: In OM, the vision statement defines the system of interacting conditions, actors and actions in which an actor intends to intervene. It describes how those doing the visioning see and understand the situation they are concerned with. Mission: In OM the mission statement provides an overview of the following: • the actions or activities to be engaged in; • the outputs or services to be produced; • the collaborators who will engage with these processes and products; and • the purpose and time period of the intervention
- 3. andManaged byFunded by Definitions cont… • Boundary Partners: Those individuals, groups, and organizations with whom the programme interacts directly to effect change and with whom the programme can anticipate some opportunities for influence. Examples include decision- makers, private sector organizations, media organisations etc). • Strategic Partners: Other actors that can help achieve desired changes (e.g. change in the behaviour in boundary partners). • Ultimate ‘beneficiaries’: The primary local stakeholder group or groups in a project or programme (e.g. in SAIRLA this is poorer smallholders, women, youth) • Progress Markers: a set of indicators of changed behaviours for a boundary partner that focus on depth or quality of change and vary in level of ambition
- 4. andManaged byFunded by Introduction of Outcome Mapping for SAIRLA NLAs • Development is complex, but an essential element concerns how people relate to each other; • Instead of seeking to assess the ultimate impacts of a programme or project (e.g. poverty alleviation, reduced conflict), OM concentrates efforts on assessing changes in the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the people and organizations with whom a development project works. These changes are called ‘outcomes’.; • OM recognizes that while a project or programme can influence the achievement of outcomes, it cannot control them, because the ultimate responsibility for change rests with the partners of the project (boundary partners), and other actors beyond them; • OM can support a project’s planning and internal learning process, encouraging innovation and risk-taking; • To be effective, project or programme staff and partners have to engage in and support the process throughout.
- 5. andManaged byFunded by There is a limit to our influence Hearn, Nyangaga, Moussa 2013 Introduction to Outcome Mapping People the project works with/through Sphere of control Sphere of influence Sphere of concern
- 6. andManaged byFunded by There is a limit to our influence Outcomes: Changes in behavior Impact: Changes in state Sphere of control Sphere of influence Sphere of concern
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- 8. Thank You This document is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. http://www.sairla.nri.org/news The Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa (SAIRLA)