Advocacy and systems change evaluation call resources

[Catherine Borgman-Arboleda]

Hi everyone!

Recently during discussion on the Pelican list around the inadequacy of traditional M&E approaches methods for advocacy and transformative change efforts a number of calls were proposed to dig deeper into the issues. I just wanted to share here a few resources (and thank you to Rituu for suggesting!)

• Survey summary (all call participants took a survey prior about their experiences, skills, challenges, etc. around advocacy and systems change evaluation) https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5hsggc1voi88if/MEL%20Advocacy_Syst%20Chg_Eval_Survey%20summary_Oct%2029_2019.docx?dl=0
• Rough notes from the calls - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JUSPLnm1rs4h_SrjOM6I2CCpR-uucn8...
• PPT used to guide our calls- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g5sd3OCt76_FAu8W8zgZgJ418Vx...
• Jackie W. Kaye from Wellspring shared some excellent resources on evaluating advocacy in this DB folder - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z8f3gkt10qk0uo1/AAAyjMWrJ_xZp8-GKwZHdDTi...   (there are other resources in the notes)

All best!

Catherine

[Nyarai Mutongwizo]

Very useful indeed thank you

[Rituu B Nanda]

Hi Catherine,

I did a long term project -baseline and endline with Participatory action research on topic of evaluation. it was with sex workers in India and Cambodia for IDRC. Here is the link https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/49837/... 

We focused on measuring shift in advocacy strategies from reactive to proactive strategies
with a potential impact on the lives and wellbeing of 70,000 sex workers.
 Transformation in human rights documentation processes carried out by partners
which included evidence gathering and analysis on violence against sex-workers and
visualisations of this evidence.
 Growth in knowledge of the importance of effective information management in
digital documentation.
 Insight into community-owned and aggregated data given a growing, global
movement towards open data for accountability and transparency.
 Development of integrated self-evaluation tools which will continue to be used by
partners.
 Contribution to the scholarship on on violence against sex-workers and advocacy for
their human rights.

[Dr. Gazi Sakir Mohammad Pritom]

These are great resources, thank you for sharing.

[Rituu B Nanda]

Thanks dear Catherine! Am adding more resources

Advocacy Accelerator's webinar on “No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation

Here’s the webinar recording https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oS5k_g6F7v2p2qQyIDK6WOO4rjv0VbXs/v.... Attached please find the panellists’ PowerPoint presentation.

 

We also thought that you might find the following resources that the panellists touched on useful:

 

• Youth evaluation series of blog posts on AEA365: https://aea365.org/blog/category/youth-focused-evaluation/
• Saferworld’s Monitoring and Evaluation approach as discussed in the webinar and the No Royal Road paper: https://www.saferworld.org.uk/resources/publications/1027-doing-thi... 
• Save the Children’s useful resources that set out ways of thinking about monitoring and evaluation that aren’t too complicated: https://campaigns.savethechildren.net/impact
• Insightful case studies that were referenced in the webinar discussion https://cademtz.wixsite.com/mwanaharakati/case-studies

 

Courtesy:  Patricia Wasunna, Knowledge Management and Community Officer, Advocacy Accelerator, C/o Amref Health Africa Headquarters