The OMLC is hosting two webinars in September and October as part of our series on bricolage, in the run up to the Learning Lab in December.
Outcome Mapping and Bricolage
Tuesday 30 September, 09:00 East Coast | 14:00 London | 16:00 Nairobi | 18:30 Colombo (all world times here)
In our previous webinar Marina Apgar and Tom Aston introduced the idea of bricolage as a practice in MEL design that involves combining parts of methods to create a new approach to fit specific needs and contexts. This set the scene for our upcoming OMLC Learning Lab in Sri Lanka: Enhancing participatory, learning-oriented MEL in an age of bricolage.Â
In this webinar we want to turn the attention to Outcome Mapping. OM was the result of a bricolage process in which, in the late 1990s, the International Development Research Centre brought together parts of existing methods to create something new. The reason we have the OM approach is because IDRC packaged and published their bricolage experiments.
Not only that but by supporting the establishment of the Outcome Mapping Learning Community IDRC entrusted the further development of OM to the practitioners using it. This has led to ongoing adaptation and bricolage of OM with other methods.Â
Join us in this webinar as we discuss bricolage in OM with Sarah Earl, who co-led the development of OM and co-authored the OM manual, and Julius Nyangaga, one of the founding Stewards of the OMLC and an early OM practitioner and innovator.
Sarah Earl is the Director of Strategy at YMCA of Greater Toronto. She is co-author of Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programs
Julius Nyangaga is founder and director of Right Track Africa. He was a Steward of the Outcome Mapping Learning community from 2006 to 2016.
Bricolage and Systems Change
Tuesday 14th October 10:00 East Coast | 15:00 London | 17:00 Nairobi | 19:30 Colombo (all world times here)
The upcoming OMLC Learning Lab 2025 will bring together practitioners to explore bricolage of participatory, learning-oriented MEL for systems-change. The systems change piece is important because, as a community, we focus on approaches to help us grapple with complex societal, political and environmental change and we often use the concept of systems to describe the interrelationships, boundaries and perspectives we’re engaging with.Â
Outcome Mapping is one among many methods which are suited to planning, monitoring and evaluation in the context of systems change (see Gates et al 2021, Hargreaves et al, 2010Â and Williams and Hummelbrunner). But what is a good method for systems change? How do we decide which methods to use and how to combine them? Why is bricolage important for systems change?
Join us in this webinar as we discuss with Emily F. Gates and Pablo Vidueira what we mean by systems change, the importance of bricolage and design consideration for MEL.
Emily F. Gates is an Associate Professor of Evaluation at Boston College. Her research examines systems approaches to evaluation, including the role of values and equity. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Pablo Vidueira is an Assistant Professor of Evaluation and Food Systems at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and Director of Evaluation at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. He is an Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer, MSc. in Rural Development and Sustainable Management, and PhD. in Program Evaluation.
