Archive for the ‘Complexity’ Category
Friday, February 19th, 2010
(Via Ben Ramalingam)
"The latest post on Aid on the Edge post compiles presentations and reports from meetings on evaluation and complexity (NORAD, Panos, Mokoro) that have taken place in the past few months and years, as well as planned meetings later this year"
The list:
Presentations given at a 2008 NORAD conference ‘Evaluating ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Date: 20-21 May 2010
Venue: Netherlands
On May 20-21, 2010, a conference on evaluation for development will be held in The Netherlands: “Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity.”
This conference focuses on how evaluative practice can be improved, given the need to view much of development as a ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Why, what and when to measure?
An opinion paper prepared for IIEP, by Alfredo Ortiz and Peter Taylor, INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (IDS), 25th July, 2008
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Abstract
Many capacity development (CD) programs and processes aim at long?term sustainable change,
which depends on seeing many smaller changes in at times almost invisible fields (rules, incentives,
behaviours, power, coordination etc.). Yet, most evaluation processes of CD tend to focus on short?
term outputs focused on clearly visible changes. This opinion paper will offer some ideas on how to
deal with this paradox, by examining how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) does, or could, make a difference to CD. It explores whether there is something different and unique about M&E of CD that
isn’t addressed by predominant methods and ways of thinking about M&E, and which might be
better addressed by experimenting with learning?based approaches to M&E of CD.
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION—WHAT SHOULD MONITORING &EVALUATION (M&E) TELL US ABOUT
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT (CD)? ................................. 1
2. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT MEANS AND ENDS—“WHAT ARE WE MEASURING AND WHEN
SHOULD WE MEASURE IT?” .... 5
2.1. IN SEARCH OF PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT .. 5
2.2. STANDING CAPACITY .... 10
3. WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM M & E OF CD DILEMMAS? ... 13
3.1. DEVELOPMENT BEING A PROCESS ALREADY IN MOTION ........ 13
3.2. LINEAR VERSUS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS (CAS) THINKING, PROGRAMMING AND MEASUREMENT ....... 14
3.3. ATTRIBUTION ... 17
3.4. DONOR ACCOUNTING FOCUS VERSUS OPEN ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Date: January 14, 2009, all day (9-5)
Venue: CAFOD offices in London (Stockwell).
The world is becoming increasingly inter-related, complex and fast-changing and yet many organisations continue to use traditional methods for strategy development, organisation change and leadership - even when they have questionable success. Why is this? What has to happen ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Date: May 26-27, 2008
Venue: Wageningen International, Netherlands.
[Ten presentations given at this event are now available online]
What does complexity thinking mean for development interventions? This innovation dialogue offers a unique opportunity for exploring how emerging insights from the complexity sciences and systems thinking, combined with field practice, could reshape ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Date: July 9th 2008
Venue: ODI, London
Dear All,
I am very pleased to be able to share with you all the agenda for the forthcoming Seminar at ODI on "Exploring the Science of Complexity in Aid Policy and Practice" (see below). [July 9th, ODI, London] The aim of this first Seminar is ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Date: 29 – 30 May 2008
Venue: Oslo, Norway
Norad’s Evaluation Department and Oslo University College is planning to hold a two-days conference entitled Evaluating the Complex. The purpose of this conference is to promote interest in and discussions about the role of evaluations in Norway. The main target group is ...
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