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For all those interested in or attending the Evaluation Revisited conference this week, here is a very rapid compilation of free-to-download presentations and reports plus details of meetings and websites which may be of interest. Please do add more resources using the comments function below… Presentations: Mokoro Presentations on Monitoring and Evaluating complex development given [...]

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October 2009 saw a seminar in Oxford on the topic of evaluation and complexity, the first in 2 such events planned by Mokoro, a development consultancy. Presentations from the seminar are available from the website, which include an excellent overview from Pip Bevan as well as specific examples of complexity-oriented evaluations. As the seminar summary states: [...]

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Olivier Serrat, Head of Knowledge Management at the Asian Development Bank, has just published a short paper on complexity and development, as part of their Knowledge Solutions series. Brief excerpt and link below. Development is a complex, adaptive process but—with exceptions—development work has not been conducted as such… development assistance often follows a linear approach to [...]

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A recent report from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community highlights that ‘insights from community members have shown that the underlying principles of Outcome Mapping acknowledge and resonate very well with complexity theory.” This is because Outcome Mapping explicitly recognises: that social systems are made up of large numbers of independent agents who interact in interdependent [...]

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July 2009 saw the sixth  in a rolling series of meetings focusing on the value of complexity theory in international development and humanitarian work. The meeting was hosted by Panos and focused on Evaluation practices in the aid sector, and how they need to be improved in the face of complexity. Participants included development practitioners, academics, [...]

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The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) organized an international conference on ‘Evaluating the Complex’ from 29-30 May 2008 in Oslo, Norway. Speakers included Howard White (International Initiative on Impact Evaluation); Patricia Rogers (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology); Michael Q. Patton (Director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and Former President of the American Evaluation Association), among others. [...]

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