Monitoring & Evaluation
Summer Training Course

Outcome Mapping

Outcome Mapping is a set of tools used for planning, monitoring and evaluating interventions aimed at bringing about social, economic or technological change.
It is based on the idea that, to succeed, an intervention needs to involve multiple stakeholders, each with its own particular commitments, interrelationships and definitions of success.
Outcome Mapping tools help identify and create working relationships with and among the relevant actors.
It offers a template for creating mutually supportive intervention strategies.
It connects ‘outputs’ to ‘outcomes’ by focusing on the patterns of action and interaction among stakeholders.
By defining changes in these patterns of behaviour, influenced by an intervention, as outcomes, Outcome Mapping provides the basis for engaging participants in measuring, learning from and adapting their desired outcomes.

The Outcome Mapping module:

• Introduces ‘complexity’ as it relates to planning monitoring and evaluating development initiatives;
• Lays out seven practical steps for clarifying an intervention’s intentions;
• Engages participants through discussion and break out group exercises in the application of the seven steps of the “Intentional Design” framework;
• Applies complexity-oriented thinking in assessing the practical value of Outcome Mapping for different contexts and purposes.

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Outcome Harvesting

Outcome Harvesting is used to identify, formulate, analyse and interpret what was achieved and how, regardless of whether it was pre-defined or not. When a project, programme or organization is implemented in dynamic uncertainty, conventional monitoring and evaluation can be inappropriate because what is done and what is achieved may vary considerably from the original plan.
The special value of the tool is that it enables people responsible for monitoring and evaluating development work to identify and formulate intended and unintended, positive and negative outcomes, determine how the intervention contributed to them and make sense of it all.

The Outcome Harvesting module includes:

• Implications of complexity science for monitoring and evaluating development initiatives;
• Practical exercises applying Outcome Harvesting to a case study written for this course;
• Examples from real-life applications that demonstrate the principles underlying Outcome Harvesting approach;
• Illustration of how Outcome Harvesting could be applied to a project that used Outcome Mapping as its planning framework.

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Pier Giorgio Ardeni

The director of the Summer Programme is Pier Giorgio Ardeni, professor of development economics at University of Bologna, policy advisor, expert in poverty reduction programs and statistical development.

Steff Deprez

Working as an independent consultant specialized in program design and learning-oriented M&E systems facilitating adaptive management for/in complex programs, he developed OM-based program design and monitoring systems for divers programs and provides in-house and public Outcome Mapping introduction trainings and masterclasses.

Ricardo Wilson-Grau

Monitoring and evaluation advisor and organizational development consultant. With colleagues, developed the Outcome Harvesting tool, monitoring and evaluating thousands of outcomes of almost 400 networks and associations, NGOs, community-based organisations, research institutes and government agencies in 143 countries on all seven continents.