Do you have a basic knowledge of Outcome Mapping, but want to know how you can ‘take it up a notch’ and combine it with tools and methods appropriate to a variety of situations?
Have you had success using Outcome Mapping in a particularly complex situation, and you’d like to share what you learned with others?
Have you adapted, or are keen to develop, Outcome Mapping for monitoring and evaluation (whether you have use used it or not for planning)?
Do you want to be challenged in your current thinking about planning, monitoring or evaluation?
"Outcome Mapping is one of the few approaches to evaluation that really addresses the interconnected nature of many of our programs and projects. OMLab 2012 will provide a chance for the international network of OM users to share what they have learned and what they are seeking to learn about how to do this well."
- Patricia Rogers,
Keynote speaker
"One of the aspects of OM that has been developed in recent years are the approaches and tools for monitoring and evaluating. In the OM Lab 2012, I look forward to sharing what I have done and learning about the breakthroughs others have made on this cutting edge of OM practice."
- Ricardo Wilson-Grau
What is the OM Lab?
It has been over 10 years since Outcome Mapping began making a contribution to planning, monitoring and evaluating social change interventions in international development. Thinking and practice has evolved over this time as development managers and evaluators have expanded their use of approaches that recognize and respond to the complex situations often encountered by development initiatives. To document these innovations and improve our understanding and practice of supporting sustainable social change, the Outcome Mapping Learning Community is hosting a three and a half day laboratory, OM Lab 2012, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon in February, 2012.
This event takes OM learning up a notch. Going beyond basic OM training, this facilitated learning event, will draw on OM practitioner cases from around the world. Keynote speakers will raise challenging questions about current M&E practice and how OM fits with emerging approaches. Infused with creative and practical thinking, facilitated group sessions in combination with plenary presentations and debates will identify successes, challenges and solutions in M&E practice.
What can I expect from the OM Lab?
Learn from other OM users about their OM adaptations via case study presentations and group work. You’ll learn new ways of using OM and how OM has evolved and been adapted in different contexts and with other methods, such as Most Significant Change. We’ll hear how VECO used OM, as well as Utilisation-Focused Evaluation to create a seven-step model to create their Planning, Learning and Accountability Model.
Interact with three of the creators of the OM methodology. Sarah Earl, Terry Smutylo and Fred Carden will be amongst the featured speakers at the conference and will share their stories on OM’s evolution.
Benefit from action-oriented and responsive guidance by world-renowned OM facilitators. Terry Smutylo, Beatrice Briggs and Kaia Ambrose will be your facilitators of the event, creating the space and time for sharing knowledge and experience related to OM training, facilitation and application.
Be mentored, and be a mentor. The OM Lab will be a knowledge exchange event, with the majority of learning happening horizontally between participants – be that in plenary and group work, through dedicated mentoring time, or in “after-hours” discussion.
Tell your OM adaptation story. Be it through group work, a formal presentation or in a post-workshop publication, this is the opportunity to tell your OM adaptation story, and receive constructive questioning and feedback to further your work.
New to OM? No problem, we'll be offering a half day OM refresher before the Lab to get you up to speed with the concepts and terminology.
What issues will be covered?
How OM can help foster the participation of diverse or conflicted groups in the planning, monitoring and evaluation process
How to introduce OM thinking into organisational cultures that are more fixed on ‘traditional’ planning, monitoring and evaluation
How to overcome scarcity of time and money when it comes to data collection, management and reflection
How to overcome difficulties in facilitating an OM process
How to integrate OM and logical framework approaches
How OM can help demonstrate tangible results when dealing with complex change
How to fill the capacity gaps between training and application
How to balance methodological rigor with contextual needs and circumstances
How much of development evaluation is ‘art’ and how much is ‘science’
How OM can be adapted specifically for monitoring and evaluation, whether or not it has been used for planning
Registration is now closed. Contact us for more information.
A unique opportunity for professional development
As the first OM event of its kind, you will:
Learn from key OM users about their OM adaptations via case study presentations and group work
Interact with three of the creators of the OM methodology
Benefit from action-oriented and responsive guidance by world-renowned OM facilitators
Be mentored, and be a mentor
Tell your OM adaptation story
Attend the pre-Lab OM refresher course
Present and publish your story
If you have an OM adaptation story to tell, you can submit a case story to us and we'll select the best to be presented at the Lab as well as published in an OMLC publication following the Lab. See the Registration tab for details.
