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Registration announcement for the OMLC 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 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.

The first announcement for our flagship event: The OMLC Learning Lab 2025. Sri Lanka, 1-3 Dec 2025. 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. We're also hosting a free warm-up webinar on 7 July: Bricolage and implications for Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting. 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.

This Practice Paper from the Centre for Development Impact makes the case for ‘bricolage’ in complexity-aware and qualitative evaluation methods. It provides a framework based on a review of 33 methods (including Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting) to support evaluators to be more intentional about bricolage and to combine the component parts of relevant methods more effectively. It discusses two cases from practice to illustrate the value added of taking a more intentional approach. It further argues that navigating different forms of power is a critical skill for bricolage, and that doing so can help to ensure rigour.

As sister approaches, Outcome Harvesting and Outcome Mapping share a common set of principles and tools which can be used together. In this webinar, co-hosted by the OMLC and the OH Community, we will hear from two initiatives which have integrated OM and OH. The first case is about 11.11.11, a Belgian movement (10.000 volunteers, 60 member organisations) that strives for global justice. Serge Beel, MEAL focal point at 11.11.11, will share how the organisation uses Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting as its primary MEAL tools within the International Department. The presentation will focus on how 11.11.11 formulates, verifies, analyses and interprets outcomes in its programming contexts where relations of cause and effect are by nature not very clear and direct. He will also explain how this integrated approach aligns with 11.11.11’s actor-based approach. The second case is the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX), which is managed by IDRC. Simon Hearn, a MEL consultant with the programme, will discuss how the programme grantees use boundary partners and progress markers from OM and outcome cases from OH to monitor results in the results framework. The presentation will touch on the synergy between the structured approach to outcome monitoring in OM combined with the open ended approach from OH. It will also discuss the importance of sensemaking to bring learning alive and support use of insights from monitoring. Speakers: Serge Beel, Director HR and Organisational Development 11.11.11 Simon Hearn, Independent MEL consultant and OMLC Coordinator Hosts: Goele Scheers, OH Community Facilitator Glowen Kyei-Mensah, OMLC Chair

Grab your mug of cocoa and join us by the camp fire! This webinar is a fire-side conversation with two practitioners, Jeph Mathias and Steff Deprez, who enjoy stretching and blending participatory story and narrative-based methodologies to bring rich understanding from authentic and diverse voices into their MEL practice. Mariam Smith and Richard Smith will lead the discussion as they explore the methodologies used by Steff and Jeph and engage participants in the conversation. This is the first of a series of events on the topic of blending thinking, and practices from methods. In late 2025 / early 2026, OMLC will convene a face-face Learning Lab with a focus on such ‘methodological bricolage’ of blending thinking and parts of OM, OH and other qualitative methods. Look out for future online events exploring the theme of bricolage as we ready ourselves for the main event.

One of the key tenets of Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting is the focus on behaviour change. But what if attitude change is a vital result? Are OM and OH irrelevant or can they be adapted? In this 90 minute webinar Michelle Garred and Jeph Mathias present reasons for including attitude changes (alongside behaviour changes) in an Outcome Harvest and share two different ways they have implemented this thinking in two very different contexts. There will be a short interactive breakout plus time for questions, critique and insights. This is a thought provoking interactive session on a conceptual level, rather than a how-to-do workshop.

Presentation of VECO Indonesia's use of Outcome Mapping, by Steff Deprez at the EASY-ECO Vienna Conference, March 2008.

STOP Spillover is a global consortium funded by USAID and led by Tufts that is working to understand and address the risks posed by known zoonotic viruses with the potential to spill over from animals and cause outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics in humans. STOP Spillover is using the Outcome Mapping approach to identify and prioritize potential high-risk spillover interfaces (places where viruses are likely to make the jump from animals to humans), the critical partners around those interfaces, and relevant behavioural-change outcomes that are likely to decrease the risk of spillover. This article describes the program's use of Outcome Mapping.

Dieses Workbook ist als eines von zwei begleitenden Handreichungen zum Doppelwebinar „Outcome Mapping und Outcome Harvesting“ der PME-Campus Fortbildungsreihe entstanden (https://pme-campus.de/kurse/om-oh/). In Workbook 1 werden die grundlegenden Prinzipien und Konzepte beider Ansätze dargestellt und Outcome Mapping mit seinen drei Phasen erklärt. In Workbook 2 wird Outcome Harvesting eingeführt und kurz die Stärken und Herausforderungen beider Ansätze besprochen.

Dieses Workbook ist als eines von zwei begleitenden Handreichungen zum Doppelwebinar „Outcome Mapping und Outcome Harvesting“ der PME-Campus Fortbildungsreihe entstanden (https://pme-campus.de/kurse/om-oh/). In Workbook 1 werden die grundlegenden Prinzipien und Konzepte beider Ansätze dargestellt und Outcome Mapping mit seinen drei Phasen erklärt. In Workbook 2 wird Outcome Harvesting eingeführt und kurz die Stärken und Herausforderungen beider Ansätze besprochen.