Outcomes Harvesting Evaluation – the missing piece of the puzzle?
How do you know that your organisation creates deep social change?
Jeph Mathias,
Suzanne Andrew,
How do you know that your organisation or group creates deep social change? Do you work in a complex environment where linear outputs are hard to measure?
Our August 2021 webinar discusses the evaluation methods Outcomes Harvesting and Outcomes Mapping. These evaluation methods focus on people and the deeper and more personal changes made, rather than the actions done by an organisation.
We welcomed Jeph Mathias and Suzanne Andrew who presented this methodology through their evaluation experiences in an international development context, working with global indigenous communities. Reflect on why a people-centred (rather than activity-centred) approach to evaluation is as applicable to your organisation in Aotearoa as it is to snow leopards in the Himalayas or income generation in Cambodia.
Following this half-hour webinar, we invited participants to stay for a half-hour workshop to apply their own context and questions to this topic.
If you are interested in looking further into how outcomes harvesting can help your organisation, Jeph would love to hear from you: jephmathias@gmail.com
Resources
- Jeph’s powerpoint presentation
- Suzanne’s powerpoint presentation
- Summary Report from the Outcomes Harvesting Evaluation done by Jeph for Community Research in April 2021.
- Outcome Mapping Learning Community – a global, informal, open membership network for sharing information and facilitating learning on using Outcome Mapping for planning, monitoring and evaluating complex interventions.
- Jeph Mathias’ website – http://www.unpredictable.co/
- Example of Outcomes Harvesting evaluation for JR McKenzie by Point.
