Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Registration deadline: 08 Jun 2015
Starting date: 06 Jul 2015
Ending date: 10 Jul 2015
Outcome Mapping (OM) is an effective monitoring and evaluation methodology for
planning and assessing development programs. OM focuses on socio-institutional change
and provides a set of tools to design and gather information on development outcomes,
defined as behavioral changes. It enables project implementers to track project influence
on the progression of change among the project target. This helps project managers and
implementers to take systematic and realistic thought about what they are currently doing,
in order to adaptively manage variations in strategies set to bring about desired outcomes.
OM was first introduced by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in
2000, and is now appreciated by the donor agencies, NGOs and monitoring and evaluation
professionals around the world as an effective tool to address complexity issues that
traditional methods do not consider.
The need for OM
The current preference in the design and implementation of projects and programmes is
focusing more and more on changing human behavior through stakeholder networks.
Outcome Mapping is an effective approach that incorporates planning for behavioral
change of partner organizations, network members and beneficiaries in order to achieve
development results. It provides solutions for designing and measuring qualitative changes
especially at the outcome level and can well be combined with other approaches such as
Theory of Change.
By the end of the 5 days training, participants will:
• Understand and convey the core concepts and principles of OM.
• Have practiced using outcome mapping tools and know how to focus on supporting
social change in development projects or corporate and institutional initiatives.
• Know how to blend the Logical Framework approach and Outcome Mapping in
order to improve traditional methodologies and enrich project planning and
implementation.
• Be able to capture what is happening outside the pre-set development indicators in
your intervention into the monitoring and evaluation process to enhance joint
learning.
• Be able to use OM as the basis for a learning-based management approach.
How to register:
Download and complete registration form available at www.iirr.org then submit it to training@iirr.org or call +254 20 2370039/43