Warm up Webinar: Bricolage and implications for Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting

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 at 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

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