Outcome Mapping
Development processes are multi-dimensional by nature. How to manage it? Rather challenging! To tackle this, OM offers a non-linear, vision-driven approach with a focus on changes of behaviours, relationships, actions of the people and organisations in the development programme.
Participants
You are a programme coordinator/manager in an non-governmental organisation, (inter)national or inter-governmental development organisation; a consultant or government official who is seeking for new planning, monitoring and evaluation concepts, approaches and tools that are adapted to better suit the complex environments in which development work takes place.
Some reviews from our participants in 2010
"A very good introduction into a new approach for planning and monitoring, helps you to decide if OM should be used in future programme planning and gives enough knowledge/skills to start a pilot with OM."
"Encourages discussions and makes a team more committed to a project."
"Gives good food for thought about PME, based on the outcome mapping methodology. Triggers you how to look at behaviour change systematically."
"Very useful, good to exchange thoughts with the trainers and other PME experts (or people working on it). Good introduction to OM and how it can go together with LFA."
"It was a helpful course to get to know OM in depth. It was very inspiring to work with experienced people together on cases."
"You just have to go there - as soon as possible."
"Very informative and interactive. I would strongly recommend it."
Course objective
This course will help you to address the following issues:
- How do we move beyond attribution and focus on supporting social change?
- How can we capture the richness of what is occurring in our development interventions without relying only on pre-defined anecdotal evidence?
- How do we integrate learning from monitoring and evaluation into the project and programme right from the planning stage?
You will be able to organise joint monitoring and evaluation processes with development partners to enhance both programme and organisational learning. You will draw parallels with other planning, monitoring and evaluation methods and organise ideas to fit to your context most effectively.
Course outline
| Day 1 | • Existing Practices and Challenges • Introduction to OM: Key Concepts • Step 1 & 2: Vision and Mission in OM • Step 3: Boundary Partners |
| Day 2 | • Step 4: Outcome Challenges • Step 5: Progress Markers • Step 6: Strategy Maps |
| Day 3 | • Step 7: Organisational practices • Monitoring and Evaluation in OM context • Elaboration of Personal Action Plan |
| Day 4 | • Combining OM with other Approaches • Personal Coaching on OM • Evaluation and Closing |
Background Material
Interested in more information, you can download some interesting articles here:
- Outcome Mapping and Logical Framework: an overview of a discussion on OM Platform: download here
- Outcome Mapping and Logical Framework Analysis: the discussion: download here
- Programme seminar ‘Complexity-oriented Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): From alternative to mainstream?’, DPRN, 10 November 2010: download here
- Working paper (November 2010): A survey of Government Policy for the planning, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes: download here
- Working paper (november 2010): Learning from the implementation of outcome mapping, most significant change and logical framework: download here
