Mar
17
to Mar 22

Learn Outcome Harvesting! An Authentic Experience.

This 5 day experience in NE Cambodia focused on actor centred practice compliments the OMLC workshop in Thailand the previous week, but is quite different. This event gives you you some OH theory but the emphasis is very much on experiential learning with colleagues and experienced mentors. Participants and NGO together will define questions, design an evaluation that answers them, gather quantitative and qualitative data in line with theie design, use software to analyse it, craft answers to the original questions and present findings and suggestions to the NGO. This is learning by doing.

Read about the event below or register here. Note- Feedback from some participants who registered indicate that there are some issues registering using Safari (Mac) while Chrome worked fine. We are attempting to solve this issue, in the meantime please try to use somethighn other than Safari to register. If you have any difficulties please mail Jeph.

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Mar
12
to Mar 15

Introductory Training in Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting

This training hosted by the Outcome Mapping Learning Community in Thailand is intended for practitioners, managers, funders and evaluators to learn the essence of these actor centred approaches to design, monitoring and evaluation. The event is deliberately located in a central location in Asia to make it easy for Asian participants to attend. facilitators, Mariam Smith, Richard Smith and Jeph Mathias have extensive experience in various Asian countries. To find out more please click here

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Sep
12
to Sep 15

Outcome Mapping, Asia Regional event. POSTPONED

A three day workshop on Actor Centred Project Design and Evaluation in eastern Thailand, facilitated by Richard Smith , Mariam Smith and Jeph Mathias. Link to the Course Page and registration is here

This event has been postponed. If you are interested in attending the rescheduled event (Dec 2023 or Jan/Feb 2024) please follow the link above and register your interest to be in a mailing list for the new event with no commitment.

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Nov
23
to Nov 29

Outcome Mapping Dreaming Spaces

I co-chair the International Outcome Mapping Learning Community. We see ourselves as supported by a community and rather than leading from the front we try to lead from the middle. In late November 2022 we are hosting three virtual fora where two stewards will listen to our grassroots about how to e more responsive Adam adapted to our members’ needs. One is at a time suitable for Latin America and will be hosted in Spanish, the other two in English at times that suit Africa and one for Asia/Australasia (which I will host with Mariam Smith on Nov 28).. We woudl love to hear your views on all things OM so if you would like to sign up please visit this page on the OMLC website.

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Jul
23
9:00 PM21:00

OMLC Webinar

I will host webinar on the key Outcome Mapping step of strategy maps wiht OMLC colleagues Mariam Smith, Phil Smith and Simon Hearn. Strategy maps are were teh rubber of actor centred theory meets teh real hard road every project walks when they ask themselves “OK, so that’s our vision, but what do we actually do?” Click on this link to see the webinar description on the OMLC site, and if it presses your buttons sign up.

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Dec
3
to Dec 6

OMLC Winter School, Brussels Dec 2019

The rescheduled summer school re-emerges as the winter school. It is an innovative and a credible way to learn teh principles and practise of OM and connect wth other practitioners around the world who use and support outcomes based approaches to development. See the course details on the OMLC website here.

I will now be facilitating along with my fellow OMLC stewards. Our aim is to be interesting interactive and thorough and make it both great learning and very enjoyable.

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Jul
2
to Jul 4

OMLC summer School, Brussels, July 2019- rescheduled

This event was re-scheduled to December 2019 and rebranded as the “Winter School”


The Outcome Mapping Learning Community is delighted to announce the OMLC Summer School: Outcome-based approaches for effective monitoring, evaluation and learning in complex change processes.  The content will be accessible to beginners in Outcome Mapping but is designed to also extend those with experience in it.

The Summer School will be in Brussels, Belgium from 2-5 July, 2019. The 4-day event will take a deep dive into the principles of Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting by combining grounded theory with practical case studies and group discussion. Participants will complete the programme with an understanding of OM and OH, their relevance in complex change processes, how to use them appropriately in their own contexts, and how to adapt them for use with other aligned approaches.

The OMLC has run five open events in the last five years in Dar es Salaam, Brussels, Toronto, Bangkok and Nairobi. The Summer School is our main event for 2019 and we're introducing some new ideas including a more integrated approach to training OM, OH and outcome-based approaches in general. The Summer School will be led by members of the OMLC Stewards including: Kaia Ambrose, Steff Deprez, Goele Scheers, Simon Hearn. There will also be invited guests speakers.

Registration will open next week on 28 March. Early-bird registration will be EUR 950 (available until 5 May, 2019).

Please check the event website for more details as they become available: http://event.outcomemapping.ca.

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Mar
4
12:00 AM00:00

Blue Marble Evaluation Webinar

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I will present a one hour webinar with Michael Quinn Patton titled “ Time is of the Essence”.. The webinar is at 0.2.30 GMT, 08.00 Indian standard time. Please click here to access the webinar. Sorry not the best time for Europe and Africa, but should be OK for North and South America, Asia, and Australisia. if you choose to live on a spherical Blue Marble, it can never suit everyone.

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Mar
13
3:00 PM15:00

Public lecture: Indigenous Identity in North-east Cambodia

I will speak at Massey University Palmerston North on Tuesday March 13 about a complex, fast moving dynamic situation in Cambodia where I ran an Outcome Harvest evaluation. It is an extra-ordinary project which rbis questions ranging from what human identity is constructed from to how one can evaluate a nebulous concept like dignified adaptation in such complexity. Lets see if staff and students at Massey can help me.

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Mar
9
to Mar 10

ANZEA Outcome Harvesting Workshop Wellington New Zealand

I will deliver two one day workshops on Outcome Harvesting in Wellington and Auckland for the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA). These will be interactive workshops looking at what evaluation is and when and why Outcome harvesting might be used. See the ANZEA flyer here, or go to their website www.anzea.org.nz

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Nov
10
1:45 PM13:45

Thinking Systems, Harvesting Outcomes. AEA conference Washington D.C.

Bob Williams and I present an interactive 90 minute session at the 2017 American Evaluation Association conference titled

1294:Outcome Harvesting with a twist of Systems Thinking. Yes please!

We use my evaluation in Afghanistan earlier this year to look at OH as a tactic and Systems thinking as the strategy to unravel complex system dynamics and hint at entry points.  


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