When and how can Outcome Harvesting be a

When and how can Outcome Harvesting be a useful tool for Developmental Evaluation? Ricardo Wilson-Grau 14 May 2014

e Harvesting Outcome Harvesting • Inspired and informed by the Outcome Mapping methodology. • A tool for practitioners operating in dynamic, uncertain situations to monitor and evaluate the social change results they are achieving.

OH for DE User Team developing an innovation: What results are we actually achieving? Uses Answers Outcome Harvesting collects evidence of what has been achieved, and works backward to determine whether and how the innovation contributed to the change Questions

OH for DE User Six Steps: 1. Design the harvest Answers 2. Review documentation and draft outcomes 3. Engage with informants 4. Substantiate 5. Analyse, interpret 6. Support use of findings Uses Questions

OH for DE User Six Steps: 1. Design the harvest with the innovators or team members: in the light of their uses, agree the question(s) they need answered in the next phase of development and what information is required (change, contribution of innovation, significance of change, and so forth). Uses

OH for DE User Answers 2. Review documentation (e. g. minutes or your notes of team meetings), and draft potential outcomes: who did what, when and where that is significantly different than before and how did the initiative contribute. Uses Questions

OH for DE User Answers 3. Engage with informants: Virtually or in person with the team member(s) or other person who was the source of the potential outcome, review, correct and complete the draft outcomes. Uses Questions

OH for DE User Answers 4. Substantiate: Agree with users which outcomes would benefit from consultation with knowledgeable, independent third parties about the outcome’s formulation to improve accuracy and understanding. Uses Questions

OH for DE User Answers 5. Analyse, interpret: When you have a critical mass of outcomes, organise them so they are intelligible. Then with appropriate people (users, some or all team members) discuss: So what do individual or clusters of outcomes mean for the innovation? Uses Questions

OH for DE User Answers 5. Support use of findings: Participate in decisionmaking or applying the interpretation of the outcomes to the innovation. Uses Questions

Iterative and flexible steps Desig nt h e h a rvest Review d o c u m e ntation an d d r a f t o utcomes Engage with informants pret e, inter dings of fin Analys rt use Substantiate Suppo

Thank you! Ricardo. Wilson-Grau@inter. nl. net