Patricia Rogers ***Key note speaker***
Patricia is Professor of Public Sector Evaluation at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia and leads the international collaboration “BetterEvaluation” which provides a platform for sharing information about evaluation methods. She has worked in evaluation and research for more than 25 years, with government and non-government organizations across a wide range of program areas, including agriculture, community development, criminal justice, early childhood, education, health promotion, Indigenous housing, international development, and legal aid. She is the author of “Purposeful Program Theory” (with Sue Funnell) and a contributor to “Evaluating the Complex”.
Terry Smutylo created IDRC’s Evaluation Unit in 1992, serving as its Director until 2005. Since then he has worked as a Special Advisor to IDRC, on the faculty of IPDET, as an Outcome Mapping trainer and facilitator, and as an independent evaluation consultant with international development organizations. He specializes in methods which empower stakeholders, promote learning and focus on outcomes in project, program and strategic evaluations. While with the IDRC, he led teams that developed several internationally recognized methodologies, including Organizational Self-Assessment and Outcome Mapping. He has worked with organizations in Canada, United States, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, conducting evaluations, providing training, and facilitating organizational development.
Kaia is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager at CARE Canada, as well as an international development consultant with a focus on facilitating the creation and implementation of learning-oriented monitoring and evaluation systems and processes. Kaia has been using OM for planning and assessment for several years, first in South America where she was based for 8 years, and then around the globe. She has helped organizations, projects and programs in Canada, the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America design in a participatory manner M&E systems and processes based on OM, and has delivered numerous OM training workshops. As the M&E ad learning manager at CARE Canada, she has woven OM and other methods (such as Most Significant Change) into Results-Based Management frameworks, supporting individual projects across the globe to build their capacity and use a variety of methods.
Sarah is a Senior Program Specialist in the International Development Research Centre's Evaluation Unit. Seeing past the complexities of her field, Sarah Earl creates innovative ways to measure how development assistance affects the communities involved. Sarah is a co-creator of Outcome Mapping, and supports knowledge activists to use Outcome Mapping to research the social dimensions of development assistance and improve their effectiveness. While at IDRC, Sarah has also managed important projects such as assessing whether information technologies are really changing women’s lives and building an evaluation network in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research and work has taken her to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, as well as Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Beatrice is the founder and director of the International Institute for Facilitation and Change, has been facilitating and training groups in participatory decision-making processes since the early 1990’s. Born in the United States, she has lived in Mexico since 1998. She has worked on five continents with a wide variety of clients from the public, private and social sectors, including the United Nations, the International Development Research Centre (Canada), Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Colombia). She has served as president of the International Association for Public Participation and is the author of the manual “Introduction to Consensus” and dozens of articles published around the world in both English and Spanish. Beatrice is internationally recognized for her capacity to help organizations maximize their effectiveness through participatory processes.
Ricardo Wilson-Grau ***Special feature at the OM Lab 2012!***
Join Ricardo for an energizing session on Outcome Harvesting, to be held the third morning of the OM Lab. Participants will be introduced to Outcome Harvesting, which is a method derived from OM to identify, formulate, verify and make sense of outcomes, through the participatory documentation of changes in social actors. Participants will understand the essential principles and the tool of Outcome Harvesting through applying them to an organisational context with which they are familiar.
Ricardo has a vast and diverse range of international development, management and M&E experience across the globe. After many years at Novib as a senior advisor, Ricardo now works full-time as an organisational change consultant and evaluator, as well as a researcher exploring the use of complexity sciences as a theoretical point of reference to inform his practice.
Ziad Moussa
As well as our host for the OM Lab 2012, Ziad is a Senior Research Associate at the Environment and Sustainable Development
Unit of the American University of Beirut and works as an independent
consultant and facilitator in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,
Africa and Europe, mainly in the fields of appreciative evaluation and local
governance. Since 2006 he has been at the forefront of the efforts aiming at
“Arabizing” Outcome Mapping, and currently coordinates EvalMENA, the emerging
network of evaluators in the MENA region. He is also a Board Member of the
International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) since 2011.
 Simon HearnSimon is a Research Officer in the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme at the Overseas Development Institute, London. He has been the coordinator of the global Outcome Mapping Learning Community for over four years and has been training and facilitating Outcome Mapping since 2007. He specialises in strategic planning and monitoring of policy influencing and has been involved in the development of the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach which combines OM with tools developed through RAPID's work promoting evidence-informed policy-making. Simon is involved in the core team of the BetterEvaluation initiative, which aims to improve evaluation practice through providing advice on methods.
Julius is the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in Nairobi, Kenya. He has been working with Outcome Mapping for over 6 years, primarily advising, training and facilitating research teams at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). His main interest is integration of Outcome Mapping with other M & E methodologies. He has been a Steward of the Outcome Mapping Learning Community since its formation in 2006.
Heidi Schaeffer
Heidi is the knowledge and learning manager for the Association of Ontario Health Centres, a network of community-governed primary health care centres in Canada serving over 500,000 clients. She works in participatory program planning, evaluation, facilitation, and new communication technologies for learning and change. She combines OM with Participatory Action Research, Appreciative Inquiry and Whole Systems Learning. Heidi worked for many years in radio for development with First Nations in Canada, as well as with broadcasters in South-East Asia and Africa. Her recent work in Canada focusses on organizational development and governance with community and social service organizations. She discovered Outcome Mapping in 2005 and began delivering training in Canada, Asia and Africa in 2008. Heidi conducted research in Outcome Mapping in 2009/2010 examining patterns in the development of progress markers.
Jan Van Ongevalle
Jan is currently the Research Leader for International Cooperation at the Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven, Belgium where he is engaged in a variety of activities focussed on monitoring and evaluation in aid organisations. Prior to this, Jan worked in Zimbabwe for 15 years where he was responsible for the application of Outcome Mapping in several education programmes funded by the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB). He has written extensively about his experiences with the implementation of innovative planning, monitoring and evaluation approaches such as outcome mapping. Jan has helped several organizations in using outcome mapping and also facilitates outcome mapping training workshops. At the moment, Jan is coordinating an action research where organizations are seeking to make their PME approach more suitable for dealing with processes of complex social change.
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