When tackling the world’s most pressing challenges – like poverty, climate change, and systemic inequality – traditional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools often fall short. Why? Because they’re designed for linear projects with clear cause-and-effect logic, not for the messy, dynamic realities of systems change.
Rethinking how we measure Change In a world where progress is often defined by numbers, indicators, and rigid frameworks, how do we capture the real value of change—especially when it unfolds in unpredictable, complex environments? In their thought-provoking article The transformative power of evaluative rubrics, evaluation experts Malene Soenderskov and Savi Mull argue that rubrics […]
When tackling the world’s most pressing challenges—like poverty, climate change, and systemic inequality—traditional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools often fall short. Why? Because they’re designed for linear projects with clear cause-and-effect logic, not for the messy, dynamic realities of systems change. In their insightful article, How Evaluation Rubrics Can Help Trace Progress and Results in […]
Still using logframes to evaluate systems change?
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✔️ Track changes in power, narratives, and relationships
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Civilsamfundets indflydelse er mere end tal. Så lad os anerkende, at de talbaserede metoder ikke er de eneste og måske heller ikke altid de bedste metoder til at dokumentere en sammenhæng mellem civilsamfundets arbejde og dets effekt.
Effekten af dansk bistand måles ofte i succeshistorier. Men i en tid, hvor verden er i bakgear, er det en succes i sig selv, når bistanden bidrager til at bevare status quo.
I en tid, hvor bistandskronerne bliver færre, er det vigtigere end nogensinde, at udviklingsorganisationerne kan dokumentere værdien af udviklingsarbejdet. To udviklingskonsulenter giver deres bud på, hvordan monitorering og evaluering af fremtidens komplekse udviklingsprogrammer kan blive bedre.
Listen af krav til ngo’er, der søger støtte hos donorer, er lang og voksende. Det betyder, at nogle ngo’er risikerer at blive fanget af en negativ spiral, hvor de bliver presset til at pynte på rapporteringen for at få støtte. Det er ikke kun organisationernes problem.
De store og komplekse problemer står i kø i det nye år. Stadig flere fonde og organisationer har derfor fået øjnene op for den systemiske forandring. Men forandring af systemet starter med at tage ansvar for egne handlinger og valg.
More and more organizations turn to Outcome Harvesting to assess and document the results they make. But is Outcome Harvesting that different from previous attempts to understand how and why we contribute to change? And what happens if one combine Theory of Change for planning with Outcome Harvesting for monitoring and evaluation? This article provides […]
