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PADev Guidebook

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Authors: 
Ton Dietz et al
2013

Abstract

PADev is an innovative toolbox of tools and methods that have been designed to get a bottom-up assessment of development and change in a particular area over a period of time based on the value systems of the population.  PADev is thus a holistic and participatory approach to development assessment.  It differs from conventional assessment methods which tend to focus on a single agency/project/programme with an expert-driven approach to evaluation.  Instead, PADev assesses a wide range of changes, projects and agencies and may look back over 20-30 years.  As an alternative approach to conventional assessment it enables the construction of a “big picture” of development and change for an area that can be very useful to both development agencies and local communities.  This guidebook has been written specifically for those interested in using the PADev methodology.  It offers an introduction to this style of workshop set-up and the nine participatory PADev exercises that can be run over three days.  However it is not intended to be prescriptive and encourages experimentation and adaptation as circumstances require.

Outcome Mapping Practitioner Guide

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Authors: 
Kaia Ambrose and Steff Deprez

Abstract

The Outcome Mapping manual was published in 2001.  While still the go-to document for the basics on Outcome Mapping, the implementation and adaptations that individuals and groups have made with Outcome Mapping around the world on a gamut of different initiatives and programming provides a wealth of useful information for practitioners.  

The OM Practitioner Guide aims to bring together all of these tips, tricks and nuggets in applying OM that have occurred since the manual was published.

The key audience for the OM Practitioner Guide is OM practitioners and facilitators that ideally have already read the manual and / or attended a training; they have already decided that OM is right for them and they want to use it, or already have begun to use it and would like guidance and ideas on activities, formats, specific tools or other adaptations of the methodology. The OM Practitioner Guide will build on the original manual to provide concrete examples of complexity-oriented planning, defining and monitoring results, and planning evaluations.

The OM Practitioner Guide will:

  • Encourage the use and adaptation of OM by drawing on the experience of the broader OM community to showcase real-life examples that demonstrate non-linear use of OM stages and steps
  • Be a reference guide that builds off existing resources and experiences in order to bring to the community practical examples and theoretical summaries that come from those examples
  • Contextualize OM through nuggets / examples of use, remembering that OM is very amenable to contextualization and shaping itself into ways that are appropriate for different needs and contexts
  • Build up the experience of using OM for monitoring and for evaluation (specific tools and formats, processes, challenges, tips for data collection, data analysis and sense-making, storage and organization), especially combined with other frameworks and tools

The OM Practitioner Guide is an ongoing collaboration amongst all OM Practitioners.  The majority of content (nuggets) of the OM Practitioner Guide is in English; we encourage practitioners to contribute in other languages.