Outcome Mapping: Practical, Flexible, Participatory Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation a 4-day workshop

First introduced by the Canadian-based International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in 2000, Outcome Mapping (OM) has been used in projects, programs and organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia. A growing body of donor agencies, NGOs and monitoring and evaluation professionals are adopting Outcome Mapping because it helps them address issues that other, more traditional methods, such as Results Based Management and Logical Framework Analysis, do not consider. These questions include:

• How do we move beyond attribution to consider contribution to social change?
• How can we capture the richness of what is occurring in our projects without relying only on anecdotal evidence?
• How do we get our partners, colleagues and stakeholders more involved in the project?
• How do we integrate M&E into the project from the planning stage?
• How do we decide what to monitor and evaluate?
• How do we notice, explain and respond to unexpected results?

For further information on outcome mapping as well as examples of how it has been used, visit http://www.idrc.ca/evaluation/

This workshop is specially designed for m&e consultants, development aid agencies and projects.
At the end of the four-day training, participants will be able to


• Understand and convey the pros and cons of using OM
• Begin to apply OM in their institutions and projects
• Create an M&E plan tailored to the specific needs of the project
• Combine OM with existing M&E methods
• Effectively use facilitation techniques in M&E contexts
• Join the international community of OM users

Trainers: Terry Smutylo, Agnieszka Komoch and Gill Emslie