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The Bricolage Fieldbook

Continuing the discussion after the OMLC Learning Lab 2025

The Bricolage Fieldbook is an evolving collection of reflections, visual summaries and practical resources that emerged from the OMLC Learning Lab 2025 held at Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka. It brings together different perspectives on how evaluators combine methods, knowledge, experience and creativity when responding to complexity.

The OMLC Learning Lab 2025 was a practitioner knowledge sharing and learning event in December 2025 in Sri Lanka, organised by the OMLC in partnership with the Institute for Participatory Interaction in Development, the Sri Lankan Evaluation Association, the International Development Research Centre and Humanity United.

This page will feature outputs from the event as well as other content related to bricolage grounded in OM principles.

Learning Questions

Learning Questions

Explore the Learning Questions

Follow the five questions that guided the Learning Lab’s collective exploration of bricolage.

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Learning Question 1

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Learning Question 2

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Learning Question 3

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Learning Question 4

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Learning Question 5

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Learning Question 6

Posters

Peruse the Posters

Browse the posters presented at the OMLC Learning Lab

Resources

All Bricolage Related Resources

Fit-for-Purpose by Design: Building on Outcome Mapping with Outcome Harvesting and Other Methods in East Africa

Julius Nyangaga and Esther Kihoro

What drives the need for bricolage in complexity-responsive MEL practice?

Veera Blomster and Akolade Oladipupo

OMLC Webinar: Outcome Mapping and Bricolage

Sarah Earl, Julius Nyangaga, Simon Hearn, Mariam Smith

The Art and Craft of Bricolage in Evaluation

Tom Aston and Marina Apgar

OMLC Webinar: Outcome Harvesting (and Outcome Mapping) with Attitude Change

Michelle Garred and Jeph Mathias

What are the key features of good bricolage?

Jeph Mathias and Dea Tsartsidze

Process Tracing: an introduction and reflections on bricolage

Tom Aston

OMLC Webinar: Bricolage and implications for Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting

Marina Apgar, Tom Aston, Richard Smith, Mariam Smith, Esther Kihoro and Simon Hearn

OMLC & OH Community Webinar: Combining OM and OH

Goele Scheers, Glowen Kyei Mensah, Serge Beel, Simon Hearn

Outcome Mapping + Equity, Gender, and Social Justice

Heidi Schaeffer, Sonal Zaveri

Realist Evaluation: an introduction and reflections on bricolage

Gill Westhorpe

OMLC Webinar: Bricolage and Systems Change

Emily Gates, Pablo Vidueira, Jerrad Langlois, Simon Hearn

OMLC Webinar: Bricolage and implications for Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting

OMLC Stewards

OMLC Webinar: Stories that stretch us

Jeph Mathias, Steff Deprez, Mariam Smith & Richard Smith

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