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Evaluation works best when the emphasis is on learning for
the future. Learning means finding rigorous and appropriate ways to reflect
critically on ongoing work in order to be more effective. This is more
likely when the process is initiated, designed and owned by the people
directly involved in project work and those the work is supposed to be
helping.
Learning
forums: methodologies for sharing experience
May 2005
Exchange outlines a number of techniques that can help
to draw out learning from the experience of participants at learning forums...
Most Significant
Change - monitoring without indicators
Exchange lunchtime discussion report, February
2005
A participatory monitoring technique based on stories gives a rich picture
of the impact of development work...
People’s
Health Movement: giving voice to people’s right to health
Evaluation report, December 2004
News of an evaluation of the People's Health Movement from its start at
the People's Health Assembly in 2000 through four years of struggle and
learning...
Learn, communicate,
evaluate: The Pelican Network
A stakeholder meeting in November 2004 saw a new network of development
practitioners linking evaluation with communication about concrete experience...
How are
we learning in North-to-South NGO partnerships?
Key points from Exchange lunchtime discussion 22 June 2004
Recent research recommends more genuine, consistent and creative
NGO partnerships...
Challenging
evaluation: an introduction to Outcome Mapping
Key points from Exchange lunchtime discussion 6
April 2004
Health and development programmes can evaluate specific changes in the
behaviour, relationships, actions and activities of people they work with
using Outcome Mapping, believes Sarah Earl from IDRC...
INASP-Health:
Evaluating networks
Meeting report November 2003
Building on existing institutions and repackaging appropriate practical
health information are the priorities that emerged from a meeting in Nairobi.
The reflection and review meeting was part of Exchange's support to an
innovative, learning-focused evaluation of partner organisation INASP-Health.
Lessons from ALPS: Action Aid's
Accountability, Learning and Planning System
Exchange lunchtime discussion 25 November 2002
Dealing with programme reporting's massive time demands, reducing the
reliance on written reports, making more of learning from existing work:
ALPS offers some answers...
Most Significant Change: An
evolutionary approach to monitoring that facilitates organisational learning
Exchange lunchtime discussion 8 October 2002
Most significant change is a participatory monitoring system that can
deal with the unexpected. The method involves systematically collecting
stories which are are analysed, discussed and verified...
Using qualitative inquiry to
enhance effectiveness in early childhood programming
Exchange lunchtime discussion 11 April 2002
The Effectiveness Initiative (EI) links 10 Early Childhood Development
programmes around the world. Babeth Lefur and Arelys Moreno showed how
EI builds a sense of the diversity of local circumstances, but also to
link this to broader common themes...
Documenting and sharing lessons
Exchange lunchtime discussion 1 November 2001
Pat Norrish, an independent consultant, believes that those working in
natural resources and health communication can learn a lot from each other.
She described a project in Uganda that helps identify communication needs
of stakeholders (including farmers) in the project's target area...
Issues in evaluation for health
and disability communication
Exchange lunchtime discussion 23 August 2001
Geoff Barnard, Head of Information at the Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) and Rob Vincent, Learning Coordinator at Exchange discussed how
to encourage stakeholders to participate in the evaluation process and
how to communicate the results to different audiences...
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Key list: Learning in partnership