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Warm up Webinar: Bricolage and implications for Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting
Published: 12 June 2025, by Simon Hearn
Monday 7 July: 08:00 East Coast | 12:00 Accra | 13:00 London | 14:00 Brussels | 15:00 Nairobi | 17:30 Colombo | 1h15 mins
This webinar will launch the theme of the OMLC Learning Lab 2025, our flagship event later this year: Bricolage, the blending together of parts of methods, tools and ways of thinking.
In this webinar, we talk with Marina Apgar and Tom Aston, authors of the paper which inspired the theme: The Art and Craft of Bricolage in Evaluation. They will introduce us to the history and conceptualisation of bricolage in the evaluation field, and discuss the big questions and unresolved practice dilemmas which bricolage leads us to. We hope to facilitate a discussion with participants on what this means for the OMLC and the practice of OM and OH.
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Marina Apgar is the co-director of the Centre for Development Impact and Leader of the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change Research Cluster onat the Institute of Development Studies. She is a human ecologist with 20 years’ experience working at the intersections of research, evaluation and social change with marginalised communities, civil society actors and funders in the context of international development. She is passionate about methodological bricolage as a response to complexity and as a mechanism for meaningful participation and inclusive rigour in evaluation.
Thomas Aston is a monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) specialist. He has 18 years’ experience and has worked across many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He previously worked as a governance advisor and currently specialises in theory-based and participatory approaches to evaluation. He holds a PhD in Development Planning. He is an Editorial Advisory Board Member at the Evaluation Journal and an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
Hosts: Esther Kihoro and Simon Hearn
Discussants: Mariam Smith and Richard Smith
Announcing: Two OMLC events for your diary
Published: 5 June 2025, by Simon Hearn
1-3 December, Sri Lanka
OMLC Learning Lab 2025: Enhancing participatory, learning-oriented MEL in an age of bricolage
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For the first time in over a decade, the OMLC is hosting a face-face learning lab, this time on the theme of bricolage: the practice of blending parts of methods, tools and ways of thinking.
The Learning Lab will be a space for practitioners of Outcome Mapping, Outcome Harvesting and other participatory, learning-oriented and methods. Together, we will explore how combining well known and emerging approaches can lead to more meaningful, rigorous insights into systems-change processes. We will also reflect on how to foster meaningful participation and learning in MEL practice.
Registration opens 25th June.
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Sponsorships: support will be available for qualifying participants; look out for a future announcement
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7 July, free online webinar
OMLC Webinar: Bricolage and implications for Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting
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To launch the theme of the Learning Lab, we're hosting a free webinar to explore bricolage. We’ll be talking with Marina Apgar and Tom Aston, authors of the paper which inspired the theme: The Art and Craft of Bricolage in Evaluation.
Date: 7 July: 08:00 Eastern Time, 12:00 Accra, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 15:00 Nairobi, 17:30 Colombo
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Registration details coming next week!
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