Outcome Mapping Discussions

OM Lab event report, posted by Simon Hearn

Sun, 27 May 2012 15:18:09 +0000

Dear all, In February 2012, the Outcome Mapping Learning Community hosted the OM Lab 2012, the first event of its kind to bring together OM practitioners to share and document experiences. I'm pleased to present the report of the event, produced by Kaia Ambrose and Terry Smutylo, with Beatrice Briggs and Simon Hearn. Rather than produce one unwieldy report, we decided to produce one brief foll...

monitoring manual, posted by Richard Hummelbrunner

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:59:02 +0000

Normal 0 0 1 151 861 7 1 1057 11.1287 <![endif]--> 0 21 0 0 <![endif]--> Dear Chew and Roberto, The examples and your discussion thread illustrate two points that I consider very important with respect to logframes: 1) Although often claimed to be (in theory), logframes are not results-based (in practice). When using it as a monitoring (and control) tool the focus is on c...

monitoring manual, posted by Ditch Townsend

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:47:17 +0000

Dear Chew I have used Log Frames in the past, but have yet to finish planning, let alone implementing, an initiative with an OM approach. However, I was excited by it because I am often more concerned to see empowerment of marginalised people as a primary aim, and other positive outcomes as welcome but secondary (at most, as an incentive if pre-conceived). I was always frustrated that the Log F...

monitoring manual, posted by Chew Chee Keong

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:03:31 +0000

Hi Roberto, Tks very for sharing these examples â really appreciate this! They have helped to make it very clear for me what is meant by results-based and actors-based approaches, and indeed how they really complement each other. You are right that people who use logframes tend to emphasize the results and not enough how these results are being or have been achieved or whether/how the ben...

Women empowerment: in which ways???, posted by Suman Chowdhury Mony

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:12:04 +0000

Many people including women leaders and social workers are excited about women empowerment in development and under developed country. It is true that in those countries, there have been created many opportunities to empowered women and now women especially poor women of those countries are empowered themselves than last decades. Access in Micro finance and borrowing microcredit and getting workin...

monitoring manual, posted by Roberto Borlini

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:05:18 +0000

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monitoring manual, posted by Chew Chee Keong

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:33:47 +0000

Hi Tony, Tks v much for your note. I was aware that USAID did away with logframes sometime back and later brought them back, as you shared. Would be great if you could share the weaknesses in logframes which led to USAID abandoning them before and also reasons why they have now been reinstituted. On OM, I am still hoping someone can share some success stories, but more importantly, show...

monitoring manual, posted by Chew Chee Keong

Tue, 15 May 2012 02:45:16 +0000

Hi Roberto, Really appreciate your sharing Â of blog on how logframes and OM actually complement each other and are not mutually exclusive. It is indeed good to know, from your perspective, that they are not competitors then. I think I have understood a bit more now about OM â that it is more of an âactors-orientedâ approach while LFA is more âresults-orientedâ. Â Also noted Â yo...

Pre-Impact Mapping (PIM), posted by Catherine Gaynor

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:19:07 +0000

Dear Jeanne It would be nice if we did not have to worry about the terminology we use (but could concentrate on understanding, planning for and learning from the process of change). I agree with you that language can sometimes become a barrier rather than an aid when we are not clear and consistent in how we use it in development (especially for terms that have broad interpretations in common u...

Pre-Impact Mapping (PIM), posted by Charles Dhewa

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:04:28 +0000

Thanks Jeanne! It will also be liberating to hear cases where OM and other concepts circulating in development have been contextualized through local languages such as KiSwahili or Hindi, among others. Ciao, Charles --- On wrote: [Message posted by email]