Outcome Harvesting

Author: Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1641133945
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
Are you a grant maker, manager or evaluator who must assess your work to improve as well as be accountable for the use of resources and results? Does the project, program or organization you fund, manage or evaluate contend with substantial uncertainty about what to do and what will be the results? Do you thus experience constant change and unexpected and unforeseeable actors and factors in your intervention? Do you need to know what you are achieving and how in real time? And therefore, do you seek an alternative to conventional monitoring and evaluation of social change results? If yes, then you are the audience for this book. Beginning in 2002, working closely with co-evaluators and commissioners of evaluations, the author developed Outcome Harvesting to enable evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of changes that interventions have influenced in a broad range of cutting–edge innovation and development projects and programs around the world. Over these years, he led Outcome Harvesting evaluative exercises involving almost 500 non-governmental organizations, networks, government agencies, funding agencies, community-based organizations, research institutes and university programs. In over fifty evaluations, with forty co-evaluators he has harvested thousands of outcomes on six continents. Outcome Harvesting has proven useful in evaluations of a great diversity of initiatives: human rights advocacy, political, economic and environmental advocacy, arts and culture, health systems, information and communication technology, conflict and peace, water and sanitation, taxonomy for development, violence against women, rural development, organic agriculture, participatory democracy, waste management, public sector reform, good governance, eLearning, social accountability, and business competition, amongst others. In this book, the author explains the steps of Outcome Harvesting and how to customize them according to the nine underlying principles. He shares his experience and gives practical advice on how to work with Outcome Harvesting and remain true to its essential features.

Outcome Harvesting

Author: Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher: Information Age Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781641133890
Category : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Cover -- Series page -- Outcome Harvesting -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Basics -- Chapter 2: Step 1-Design of an Outcome Harvest -- Chapter 3: Review Documentation and Draft Potential Outcome Statements -- Chapter 4: Engage With Human Sources to Formulate Outcome Statements -- Chapter 5: Step 4 -- Chapter 6: Step 5 -- Chapter 7: Step 6 -- Chapter 8: Outcome Harvesting's Process Principles -- Chapter 9: Outcome Harvesting's Content Principles -- APPENDIX A: History of Outcome Harvesting 2002-2017 -- APPENDIX B: Developing Terms of Reference to Commission an Outcome Harvest -- APPENDIX C: GUIDE for Outcome Harvesting Principles -- Glossary -- About the Author -- Index.

Outcome Mapping

Author: Sarah Earl
Publisher: IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Outcome Mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs

Developmental Evaluation Exemplars

Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462525466
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality developmental evaluation (DE) case studies. Twelve insightful exemplars illustrate how DE is used to evaluate innovative initiatives in complex, dynamic environments, including a range of fields and international settings. Written by leading practitioners, chapters offer a rare window into what it takes to do DE, what roles must be fulfilled, and what results can be expected. Each case opens with an incisive introduction by the editors. The book also addresses frequently asked questions about DE, synthesizes key themes and lessons learned from the exemplars, and identifies eight essential principles of DE. See also Michael Quinn Patton's Developmental Evaluation, the authoritative presentation of DE.

Principles-Focused Evaluation

Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462531911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463

Book Description
How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles--and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. Patton explains why principles matter for program development and evaluation and how they can serve as a rudder to navigate the uncertainties, turbulence, and emergent challenges of complex dynamic environments. In-depth exemplars illustrate how the unique GUIDE framework is used to determine whether principles provide meaningful guidance (G) and are useful (U), inspiring (I), developmentally adaptable (D), and evaluable (E). User-friendly features include rubrics, a P-FE checklist, firsthand reflections and examples from experienced P-FE practitioners, sidebars and summary tables, and end-of-chapter application exercises.

Lean Impact

Author: Ann Mei Chang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119506603
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact? Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices, popularized by bestseller The Lean Startup, that have fueled technology breakthroughs touching every aspect of our lives, Lean Impact turns our attention to a new goal - radically greater social good. Social change is far more complicated than building a new app. It requires more listening, more care, and more stakeholders. To make a lasting difference, solutions must be embraced by beneficiaries, address root causes, and include an engine that can accelerate growth to reach the scale of the need. Lean Impact offers bold ideas to reach audacious goals through customer insight, rapid experimentation and iteration, and a relentless pursuit of impact. Ann Mei Chang brings a unique perspective from across sectors, from her years as a tech executive in Silicon Valley to her most recent experience as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID. She vividly illustrates the book with real stories from interviews with over 200 organizations across the US and around the world. Whether you are a nonprofit, social enterprise, triple bottom line company, foundation, government agency, philanthropist, impact investor, or simply donate your time and money, Lean Impact is an essential guide to maximizing social impact and scale.

Principles-Focused Evaluation

Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462531903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462

The Blue Revolution

Author: Nicholas Sullivan
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642832170
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Overfishing. For the world’s oceans, it’s long been a worrisome problem with few answers. Many of the global fish stocks are at a dangerous tipping point, some spiraling toward extinction. But as older fishing fleets retire and new technologies develop, a better, more sustainable way to farm this popular protein has emerged to profoundly shift the balance. The Blue Revolution tells the story of the recent transformation of commercial fishing: an encouraging change from maximizing volume through unrestrained wild hunting to maximizing value through controlled harvesting and farming. Entrepreneurs applying newer, smarter technologies are modernizing fisheries in unprecedented ways. In many parts of the world, the seafood on our plates is increasingly the product of smart decisions about ecosystems, waste, efficiency, transparency, and quality. Nicholas P. Sullivan presents this new way of thinking about fish, food, and oceans by profiling the people and policies transforming an aging industry into one that is “post-industrial”—fueled by “sea-foodies” and locavores interested in sustainable, traceable, quality seafood. Catch quotas can work when local fishers feel they have a stake in the outcome; shellfish farming requires zero inputs and restores nearshore ecosystems; new markets are developing for kelp products, as well as unloved and “underutilized” fish species. Sullivan shows how the practices of thirty years ago that perpetuated an overfishing crisis are rapidly changing. In the book’s final chapters, Sullivan discusses the global challenges to preserving healthy oceans, including conservation mechanisms, the impact of climate change, and unregulated and criminal fishing in international waters. In a fast-growing world where more people are eating more fish than ever before, The Blue Revolution brings encouraging news for conservationists and seafood lovers about the transformation of an industry historically averse to change, and it presents fresh inspiration for entrepreneurs and investors eager for new opportunities in a blue-green economy.

WHO normative function at the country level

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240091793
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
The WHO Evaluation Office presents a comprehensive evaluation of the organization’s normative function at the country level. The evaluation sheds light on the impact and effectiveness of WHO's normative products within individual countries and offers valuable insights and recommendations. WHO's normative function is at the core of its mandate and constitution. To ensure its relevance and effectiveness, periodic assessments are crucial. Building upon a previous global evaluation conducted in 2017, this evaluation aims to understand and strengthen WHO's normative role at the country level. It aligns with WHO's commitment to prioritize countries in its work.

Evaluation for an Equitable Society

Author: Stewart I. Donaldson
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1681234459
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Governments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns. The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe. Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.