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Teachers Are Important Participants in Student-centered Interventions, Not Just Inputs by Bryan Hall and Danielle Fontaine

Hello AEA365! We are Bryan Hall, senior director of evaluation, and Danielle Fontaine, senior manager of evaluation at BellXcel (formerly BELL, Building Educated Leaders for Life). BellXcel offers solutions for under-resourced communities to create evidence-based summer and afterschool learning programs that address the opportunity and achievement gaps. Historically, the focus of our internal program evaluation approach …

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How to make Outcome Harvesting Gender-responsive and Equity-focused Part II by Awuor Ponge

Hi, I am Awuor Ponge, an Independent M&E Consultant; Associate Research Fellow in a Think Tank and Adjunct Faculty in a Public University in Kenya. I’m passionate about Participatory Approaches and Tools in Gender and Development. This prompts interest in Outcome Harvesting (OH) as a Participatory Evaluation approach, and the desire to make the process …

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How to make Outcome Harvesting Gender-responsive and Equity-focused Part I by Awuor Ponge

Hi, I am Awuor Ponge, an Independent M&E Consultant; Associate Research Fellow in a Think Tank and Adjunct Faculty in a Public University in Kenya. I have a passion for Participatory Approaches and Tools in Gender and Development and this prompts my interest in Outcome Harvesting (OH) as a Participatory Evaluation approach, and the desire …

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Outcome Harvesting Week: Commissioning and Managing an Outcome Harvest: Optimizing participation and adaptation by Heather Britt

Hello!  I am Heather Britt, Senior M&E Specialist with Social Solutions International, the contractor for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Expanding Monitoring and Evaluation Capacities Building Task Order (MECap).  I co-authored the Outcome Harvesting brief with Ricardo in 2012 and I have been supporting the use of Outcome Harvesting (OH) and other …

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Outcome Harvesting Week: Outcome Harvesting: Revealing types and patterns of change over time by Barbara Klugman

Hi, I am Barbara Klugman, an independent evaluator based in South Africa. I use outcomes harvesting mostly for evaluating progress of social justice advocacy initiatives and outcomes of training initiatives.  I also support funders in using it for monitoring progress and strategic learning about their grantmaking portfolios. OH can reveal processes and patterns of change …

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Outcome Harvesting Week: Using Outcome Harvesting Principles to Enhance Equity and Inclusion by Heidi Schaeffer

Hi, I’m Heidi Schaeffer, chair of the global Outcome Mapping Learning Community and mentee of Ricardo Wilson-Grau, author of  Outcome Harvesting: Principles, Steps and Evaluation Applications. My consulting focuses on multi-partner strategy, monitoring and evaluation for community health and wellbeing. I use an equity-informed Outcome Harvesting approach to monitor health equity with healthcare organizations that …

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Outcome Harvesting Week: Outcome Harvesting as a Monitoring Approach by Goele Scheers

Hi, I am Goele Scheers, an independent M&E consultant based in Belgium.  I have worked closely with Ricardo Wilson-Grau since Outcome Harvesting (OH) was being developed and was working on an OH evaluation with him throughout his final year of life. I have always used OH for both monitoring and evaluation. Outcome Harvesting works well …

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Outcome Harvesting Week: Outcome Harvesting Principles by Michael Quinn Patton

I’m Michael Quinn Patton, author of Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE (2018).  Chapter 32 in that book presents the Principles of Outcome Harvesting by Ricardo Wilson-Grau. Since Ricardo is tragically no longer with us, excerpts from his chapter allow him to contribute to this series, which he had planned to do. The essence of Outcome Harvesting …

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Outcome Harvesting Week: What is Outcome Harvesting? Barbara Klugman, Heather Britt and Heidi Schaeffer

            Hello, we are your blog series hosts, Barbara Klugman, Heather Britt and Heidi Schaeffer, colleagues of Ricardo Wilson-Grau, the originator of Outcome Harvesting.  Ricardo mentored and inspired many members of the AEA community.  Sadly, he passed away on December 31, 2018. This series of posts on Outcome Harvesting is …

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PFE Week: Focus on principles to enhance the fidelity of Outcome Harvesting by Ricardo Wilson-Grau

I am Ricardo Wilson-Grau, an independent evaluator based in Rio de Janeiro who over the last 15 years developed, with colleagues, the Outcome Harvesting approach to monitoring and evaluating development and social change interventions. I devote a fourth of my time to sharing and learning, including supporting these and other colleagues to use Outcome Harvesting. …

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