Outcome Harvesting

Author : Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641133945
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outcome Harvesting written by Ricardo Wilson-Grau and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a grant maker, manager or evaluator who must assess your work to improve as well as be accountable for the use of resources and results? Does the project, program or organization you fund, manage or evaluate contend with substantial uncertainty about what to do and what will be the results? Do you thus experience constant change and unexpected and unforeseeable actors and factors in your intervention? Do you need to know what you are achieving and how in real time? And therefore, do you seek an alternative to conventional monitoring and evaluation of social change results? If yes, then you are the audience for this book. Beginning in 2002, working closely with co-evaluators and commissioners of evaluations, the author developed Outcome Harvesting to enable evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of changes that interventions have influenced in a broad range of cutting–edge innovation and development projects and programs around the world. Over these years, he led Outcome Harvesting evaluative exercises involving almost 500 non-governmental organizations, networks, government agencies, funding agencies, community-based organizations, research institutes and university programs. In over fifty evaluations, with forty co-evaluators he has harvested thousands of outcomes on six continents. Outcome Harvesting has proven useful in evaluations of a great diversity of initiatives: human rights advocacy, political, economic and environmental advocacy, arts and culture, health systems, information and communication technology, conflict and peace, water and sanitation, taxonomy for development, violence against women, rural development, organic agriculture, participatory democracy, waste management, public sector reform, good governance, eLearning, social accountability, and business competition, amongst others. In this book, the author explains the steps of Outcome Harvesting and how to customize them according to the nine underlying principles. He shares his experience and gives practical advice on how to work with Outcome Harvesting and remain true to its essential features.

Author : Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher : Information Age Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781641133890
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outcome Harvesting written by Ricardo Wilson-Grau and published by Information Age Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2018 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Series page -- Outcome Harvesting -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Basics -- Chapter 2: Step 1-Design of an Outcome Harvest -- Chapter 3: Review Documentation and Draft Potential Outcome Statements -- Chapter 4: Engage With Human Sources to Formulate Outcome Statements -- Chapter 5: Step 4 -- Chapter 6: Step 5 -- Chapter 7: Step 6 -- Chapter 8: Outcome Harvesting's Process Principles -- Chapter 9: Outcome Harvesting's Content Principles -- APPENDIX A: History of Outcome Harvesting 2002-2017 -- APPENDIX B: Developing Terms of Reference to Commission an Outcome Harvest -- APPENDIX C: GUIDE for Outcome Harvesting Principles -- Glossary -- About the Author -- Index.

Author : Sarah Earl
Publisher : IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outcome Mapping written by Sarah Earl and published by IDRC (International Development Research Centre). This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outcome Mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462531911
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles-Focused Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles--and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. Patton explains why principles matter for program development and evaluation and how they can serve as a rudder to navigate the uncertainties, turbulence, and emergent challenges of complex dynamic environments. In-depth exemplars illustrate how the unique GUIDE framework is used to determine whether principles provide meaningful guidance (G) and are useful (U), inspiring (I), developmentally adaptable (D), and evaluable (E). User-friendly features include rubrics, a P-FE checklist, firsthand reflections and examples from experienced P-FE practitioners, sidebars and summary tables, and end-of-chapter application exercises.

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462525466
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developmental Evaluation Exemplars written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality developmental evaluation (DE) case studies. Twelve insightful exemplars illustrate how DE is used to evaluate innovative initiatives in complex, dynamic environments, including a range of fields and international settings. Written by leading practitioners, chapters offer a rare window into what it takes to do DE, what roles must be fulfilled, and what results can be expected. Each case opens with an incisive introduction by the editors. The book also addresses frequently asked questions about DE, synthesizes key themes and lessons learned from the exemplars, and identifies eight essential principles of DE. See also Michael Quinn Patton's Developmental Evaluation, the authoritative presentation of DE.

Author : Nicholas Sullivan
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642832170
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Revolution written by Nicholas Sullivan and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overfishing. For the world’s oceans, it’s long been a worrisome problem with few answers. Many of the global fish stocks are at a dangerous tipping point, some spiraling toward extinction. But as older fishing fleets retire and new technologies develop, a better, more sustainable way to farm this popular protein has emerged to profoundly shift the balance. The Blue Revolution tells the story of the recent transformation of commercial fishing: an encouraging change from maximizing volume through unrestrained wild hunting to maximizing value through controlled harvesting and farming. Entrepreneurs applying newer, smarter technologies are modernizing fisheries in unprecedented ways. In many parts of the world, the seafood on our plates is increasingly the product of smart decisions about ecosystems, waste, efficiency, transparency, and quality. Nicholas P. Sullivan presents this new way of thinking about fish, food, and oceans by profiling the people and policies transforming an aging industry into one that is “post-industrial”—fueled by “sea-foodies” and locavores interested in sustainable, traceable, quality seafood. Catch quotas can work when local fishers feel they have a stake in the outcome; shellfish farming requires zero inputs and restores nearshore ecosystems; new markets are developing for kelp products, as well as unloved and “underutilized” fish species. Sullivan shows how the practices of thirty years ago that perpetuated an overfishing crisis are rapidly changing. In the book’s final chapters, Sullivan discusses the global challenges to preserving healthy oceans, including conservation mechanisms, the impact of climate change, and unregulated and criminal fishing in international waters. In a fast-growing world where more people are eating more fish than ever before, The Blue Revolution brings encouraging news for conservationists and seafood lovers about the transformation of an industry historically averse to change, and it presents fresh inspiration for entrepreneurs and investors eager for new opportunities in a blue-green economy.

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462522971
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developmental Evaluation Exemplars written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Developmental evaluation (DE) provides evaluative information and feedback to social innovators, and their funders and supporters, to inform adaptive development of change initiatives in complex dynamic environments. DE brings to innovation and adaptation the processes of asking evaluative questions, applying evaluation logic, and gathering and reporting evaluative data to inform and support the development of innovative projects, programs, initiatives, products, organizations, and/or systems change efforts with timely feedback. This book presents the current state of the art and practice of DE through 12 case exemplars. The book also answers to common questions about DE, presents a synthesis of patterns, themes, insights and lessons drawn from the case studies, and, for the first time, identifies and explains the essential guiding principles of DE"--

Author : Stewart I. Donaldson
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681234459
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation for an Equitable Society written by Stewart I. Donaldson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns. The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe. Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.

Author : Donna R. Podems
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462537804
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being an Evaluator written by Donna R. Podems and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both conceptual and technical aspects of practice in a friendly, conversational style. She focuses not just on how to do evaluations but how to think like an evaluator, fostering reflective, ethical, and culturally sensitive practice. Extensive case examples illustrate the process of conceptualizing and implementing an evaluation--clarifying interventions, identifying beneficiaries, gathering data, discussing results, valuing, and developing recommendations. The differences (and connections) between research, evaluation, and monitoring are explored. Handy icons identify instructive features including self-study exercises, group activities, clarifying questions, facilitation and negotiation techniques, insider tips, advice, and resources. Purchasers can access a companion website to download and print reproducible materials for some of the activities and games described in the book.

Author : Gail Vallance Barrington
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544339518
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation Time written by Gail Vallance Barrington and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and comprehensive guide to the concepts and practice of evaluation, this book integrates new approaches and classic frameworks with practical tools that readers can use to design evaluation studies. The authors stress the role of critical and evaluative thinking, as well as self-reflection, and demonstrate the importance of context and equity, offering a new stance for evaluators to support global as well as local issues.