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April 5, 2018 IMKnewsExpert Meeting on Measuring Impact in the Age of the Data Revolution
The data world around us is changing. Massive new sources of data emerge, which offer staggering new possibilities as well as challenges for the practice of impact measurement and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in general in the development and humanitarian sectors. During Oxfam Novib’s annual Expert Meeting, organized on the 29th of March 2018, successful examples of how the data revolution can be used in development and humanitarian settings were introduced. The aim of the day was to address how impact measurement and M&E can make use of these new data sources.
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March 15, 2018 IMKnewsInvitation to the Expert Meeting on Measuring Impact in the Age of the Data Revolution
This expert meeting on 29 March in the Hague will bring together professionals from a variety of organizations who are working on impact measurement or with innovative flows of data, and who are eager to expand their knowledge on innovative data analysis techniques and usage to feed the way we measure and monitor impact.
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February 15, 2018 IMKnewsUsing Stories to Tell Stories: A Methodological Note on Vignettes
“I will tell you a story of a mother I will call Fatima. Fatima lives in a community like you. […] One day Amina, Fatima’s cousin, comes over to visit Fatima’s family. They both have daughters of 14 years old. Amina announces that her daughter, Zainab, is engaged and getting married in a month’s time. She states that Fatima’s daughter, Noor, should also get married, as she is becoming a woman. Amina reveals she also knows a family from her village who is interested in marrying their son to Noor.”
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January 10, 2018 IMKnewsMeasurement Matters-Analysing Youth Employment and Skills Training
About 200 million people worldwide are unemployed and actively looking for a job. Many of them are young people who are less secure in the labor market as they have less work experience than adults. Youth unemployment is especially a large problem in developing countries, where a large share of the population is young. International organizations try to tackle youth unemployment, among others through providing skills training projects. To get a deeper understanding of how such projects influence youth unemployment, I wrote a paper on the relationship between these two. This blog post will provide the main findings of my paper.
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April 26, 2017 IMKnewsExpert Meeting on measuring the effects of influencing
Development actors try to influence people’s attitudes and behaviors through public campaigns. Their lobby and advocacy activities aim at changing policies and practices of governments and companies. As with traditional development interventions, accountability is due for the effects of the influencing work. Yet, measuring these effects is new and challenging. With this background, Oxfam Novib’s Impact Measurement & Knowledge team organized an Expert Meeting on Friday 31 March 2017, to offer insights from unusual disciplines about innovative measurement methods.
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September 29, 2016 IMKnewsWomen empowerment and leadership in water resource management in the Mekong region
In the past few months, the Impact Measurement & Knowledge team at Oxfam Novib (formerly known as the World Citizens Panel team) has assisted the Inclusion Project of Oxfam’s Mekong Regional Water Governance Program in carrying out a qualitative research project with the Stories of Change methodology. Part of this process, i.e. the participatory analysis of the collected stories, was described in this earlier blog post. With this short post, we’d like to share the info-graphic that was developed as a joint effort of the Impact Measurement & Knowledge team and the Inclusion Project team. And hot off the press: this info-graphic was just presented at the International River Symposium in New Delhi two weeks ago. A nice interim result of a fruitful collaboration!
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July 5, 2016 IMKnewsResult-oriented reflection: notes on the recent Stories of Change workshop for the Inclusion Project
Last April, the World Citizens Panel team facilitated a Stories of Change reflection workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Stories of Change is a qualitative research method that above all seeks to allow those who apply it – program designers and implementers – to learn how and why a particular change happens. These program designers and implementers carry out the research themselves, from design phase to the data collection and analysis. This increases the likelihood that the research is relevant to and usable in their work. During a reflection workshop – the last phase in the Stories of Change research process – these researchers are first of all triggered to reconsider the change mechanisms underpinning their interventions. Ultimately, the objective of this reflection is that interventions are adapted to achieve change more efficiently & effectively. But how to practically organize this in a 3-day workshop?
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June 23, 2016 IMKnewsWhat decisions would you make?
What would you do? This flowchart was created to allow people to consider what decisions they might make if they were caught in the current conflict in Kachin State, Myanmar. The questions are based on a survey conducted in Myanmar and the outcomes and other responses are available in the Baseline Report. Make those decisions yourself and follow the flowchart…
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April 26, 2016 IMKnewsResult oriented reflection: notes on the recent Stories of Change workshop for the Inclusion Project
Oxfam Novib's World Citizens Panel team recently held a workshop to analyse Stories of Change, a qualitative research method which aims to help practitioners understand how a particular change happens. Ruben De Winne, a Qualitative Researcher at Oxfam Novib, talks us through how they organised the workshop and the outcomes the participants walked away with.
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October 14, 2015 IMKnewsMeasuring impact: a marriage of numbers and stories
At Oxfam we're committed to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning to make sure we are having the most positive impact we can on the lives of people living in poverty. As part of this approach we need to find new and better ways of measuring our impact. Here, Anne Oudes, monitoring evaluation and learning advisor introduces the World Citizens Panel, an impact measurement method developed by Oxfam Novib.
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