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Harvesting social change outcomes to identify patterns of shared interests, strategies & outcomes across multiple organizations and issues 

11-25-2018 09:54

Barbara Klugman presented this paper at a session at eval2018 / Conference 2018.
Abstract

Experienced advocacy groups will use multiple strategies for influencing those with power from public protests, to petitions, to building relationships with decision-makers or those close to them over time. Often a mix of insider and outsider strategies may be used when speaking truth to power. How does an evaluator capture the diversity of strategies and what role, if any, they play in influencing change? How much more difficult for an evaluator commissioned to assess the role of a funding initiative – in this case the $54m Ford Foundation’s Strengthening Human Rights Worldwide – which supported organisations across regions working on different issues with different strategies? In a mixed-methods evaluation, the 1250 outcomes demonstrate one of Outcomes Harvesting’s principles – ‘revealing patterns of social change’ – regarding which institutions were being targeted around what range of issues globally and to see where and how diverse strategies and capabilities of the grantees were mutually reinforcing.

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Experienced advocacy groups will use multiple strategies for influencing those with power from public protests, to petitions, to building relationships with decision-makers or those close to them over time. Often a mix of insider and outsider strategies may be used when speaking truth to power. How does an evaluator capture the diversity of strategies and what role, if any, they play in influencing change? How much more difficult for an evaluator commissioned to assess the role of a funding initiative – in this case the $54m Ford Foundation’s Strengthening Human Rights Worldwide – which supported organisations across regions working on different issues with different strategies? In a mixed-methods evaluation, the 1250 outcomes demonstrate one of Outcomes Harvesting’s principles – ‘revealing patterns of social change’ – regarding which institutions were being targeted around what range of issues globally and to see where and how diverse strategies and capabilities of the grantees were mutually reinforcing.