Complexity-Aware Evaluation Tools
This session will discuss the increasing use of complexity- aware evaluation tools, taking Outcome Harvesting as a typical example. It will discuss when and where it helps to use complexity-aware tools, and how to adapt them to different situations that evaluators encounter. It will present some of the pitfalls of the method, and engage the audience to share their experiences and pose questions for those things that remain mysterious for them in this rapidly developing field. Taking the example of Outcome Harvesting the session will show a spectrum of uses of it, from the most basic to the most complex.
Presenter:
Chris Allan is the Executive Director of Ajabu Advisors. He has over 40 years of experience with designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programmes around the globe, including most of the countries in this programme. He has designed development programmes, managed budgets, designed and led training and organisational development initiatives, built and managed global networks, and worked on every continent. He has supported programmes of microfinance and small enterprise development, sustainable agriculture, human rights, and a variety of other development interventions. He specialises in climate resilience and adaptation programming, including planning, assessments, and evaluations at all scales. He has experience as a grantmaker around the world in a variety of systems and is a skilled facilitator of multistakeholder groups in a variety of cultural settings. On monitoring and evaluation, he has led programme evaluations in Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, the Republic of Georgia, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Vanuatu, and Africa-wide and global programmes; been a team member of evaluations in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Somalia, South Caucasus and Moldova, Central Asia, and Ukraine; and led organisational and network evaluations in Somalia and of global programmes such as the LINC Network. He also has led many strategic planning exercises for local governments and NGOs, including in Indonesia and Brazil, and is a seasoned workshop designer and facilitator. He is fluent in Kiswahili and French.
