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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Compiling evaluation and complexity resources
Posted in Evaluation, Knowledge and learning, Meetings, Reports and Studies on May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Evaluating Complex Development – Presentations and Meeting reports
Posted in Evaluation, Meetings, Reports and Studies on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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: [...]
Complexity & Conversation: reflections 1 & 2
Posted in Facilitation, Meetings, tagged complexity, conversation, emergence, Facilitation on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sean Lowrie writes: Vicky it has been a great pleasure and a stimulating learning experience to collaborate with you in this experiment. Let’s do it again sometime! Meanwhile having read your piece I offer here some thoughts to continue the conversation. Let’s face it: the day was a significant departure from the norm established in [...]
New agent-based modelling shows how incompetence spreads around hierarchical organisations
Posted in Meetings, Organisations, Reports and Studies on November 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There’s a paradox at the heart of most modern organisations. The “Peter Principle”, named after the Canadian psychologist Laurence Peter who first observed this phenomena in 1969, states that ”in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent [...]
An Innovation Dialogue on Strategy in the face of Complexity
Posted in Meetings, Strategy on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The 8th meeting in the emergent series on Complexity and Aid will take place in November 2009 How often do you question what will work in a complex and messy situation? Like many of us you are probably working to bring about some strategic change for the better – developing sustainable business models, innovating to [...]
Complexity Theory and Evaluation: 6th Meeting Report Now Available
Posted in Evaluation, Meetings, Reports and Studies on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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, [...]
Knowledges, Capacities and Learning for Development: Insights from Complexity approaches (4th meeting in the emergent series)
Posted in Knowledge and learning, Meetings on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 4th in the emerging series on aid and complexity took place at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex on 3rd October 2008. Pete Cranston blogged about it shortly thereafter – here is an extract from his thoughts. “I was at an IDS seminar last Friday – “Knowledges, Capacities and Learning for Development: Insights from Complexity approaches”. If the title is [...]
Exploring the science of complexity in aid policy and practice
Posted in Meetings, Public Policy on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The aim of this July 2008 seminar was to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss the key ideas of complexity thinking and the relevance they have for those working in the international aid sector. It was also hoped that concrete and practical ways to take this area of work forward, both collectively and within [...]
International Conference on Evaluating the Complex – 2nd in emergent series on complexity and aid
Posted in Evaluation, Meetings on September 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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. [...]
Navigating Complexity – An Innovation Dialogue
Posted in Meetings, Reports and Studies on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
May 2008 saw the first in an emergent series of meetings exploring the implications of complexity for development. “What does complexity thinking mean for development interventions? This innovation dialogue offers a unique opportunity for exploring how emerging insights from the complexity sciences and systems thinking, combined with field practice, could reshape assumptions about the design, [...]
