The community has a core group of independent members that act in a voluntary capacity as stewards. The Community Stewards Group make decisions related to the welfare of the community in collaboration with the Community Facilitator. The stewards are here to help you with any matters relating to the community or specific OM questions. They are very happy to answer any questions you might have but please remember that they are volunteers.
The current members of the group are...
Kaia currently wears a couple of hats. She works as the M&E and Learning Resource Person at CARE Canada; mostly involved with "bringing M&E to life" and balancing accountability and learning, with several, small projects that are funded under CIDA's Partnership Branch. Kaia still take time out for freelance work though, mostly around Outcome Mapping (applications, trainings, developing materials), with a number of different organizations.
Ziad is the Officer in Charge of Capacity Development and Outreach at the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit of the American University of Beirut (AUB-ESDU). He is also a founding partner of Development Management International (DMI sarl). Ziad coordinates at AUB-ESDU a project on the contextualization and Arabization of OM for the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) which is evolving into a larger project aiming at Mainstreaming Evaluation Theory and Practice in MENA using OM as an entry point. He is also the coordinator of the MENA program of the RUAF network. At DMI, Ziad works on large scale local development projects, advising mainly on project management and M&E aspects. His most cherished “baby” is MED-PACT (Local Authorities Partnership in the Mediterranean) taking place in 14 Euro-Med countries and for which he leads the Technical Assistance Team.
Julius Nyangaga is the Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager for the International Instiute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in Nairobi. Before coming to IIRR Julius was a Capacity Development Officer and before that a Research Associate with the Innovation Works (IW) initiative at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Julius’ main role has been to work with partnering stakeholders in linking knowledge with action through various aspects of project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. His particular roles and contribution has been training various R & D teams and clients in Outcome Mapping, and integrating its qualitative approach to the broader M & E system.
Daniel works for Agridea, the Swiss Centre for Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, in the Team for International Cooperation. They combine thematic with process competences and always explore new ideas, new ways of doing things. Since 2005 Daniel have been offering short (and longer) trainings on OM and have been involved in building OM principles into planning and / or M&E systems and activities of many different contexts, projects, programs and organisations.
Heidi is inspired by learning; evaluation and participatory community development. She discovered Outcome Mapping in 2005 and began delivering training in Canada, Asia and Africa in 2008. Heidi conducted research in Outcome Mapping examining the effectiveness of indicators for measuring behaviour change. She specializes in participatory program planning, evaluation, facilitation, , organizational learning and new communication technologies for learning and change. Currently, Heidi is devoting most of her time to leading education and capacity building initiatives for the Association of Ontario Community Health Centres.
Jan is currently the Research Leader for International Cooperation at the Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven, Belgium where he is engaged in a variety of activities focussed on monitoring and evaluation in aid organisations. Prior to this, Jan worked in Zimbabwe for 15 years where he was responsible for the application of Outcome Mapping in several education programmes funded by the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB). He has written extensively about his experiences with the implementation of innovative planning, monitoring and evaluation approaches such as outcome mapping. Jan has helped several organizations in using outcome mapping and also facilitates outcome mapping training workshops. At the moment, Jan is coordinating an action research where organizations are seeking to make their PME approach more suitable for dealing with processes of complex social change.
Ricardo has worked as a factory worker and door-to-door salesman in the USA, surveyor and community development worker in Colombia, publishing executive in the Caribbean, field director for the American Friends Service Committee in Guatemala, director of the Latin American Programme of experiential Friends World College, journalist and managing director of Inforpress Centroamericana, senior manager with Greenpeace International, and foreign aid advisor with Oxfam Novib. He retired in 2006 from Novib and this permits him to dedicate himself full-time to work as a social change consultant and evaluator.
Past members of the group include Beatrice Briggs, Natalia Ortiz, Ben Ramalingam and Javier Pacheco Arrieta.
