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How to conduct an online participatory evaluation workshop: Harvesting outcomes

Manchester: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) (2022), 30 pp.

Series: WIEGO Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Toolkit, 7

ISBN 978-92-95122-11-6

CC BY-NC-ND

"This Tool 7 is an online version of Tool 5 of the WIEGO MLE Toolkit: How to conduct a participatory workshop: harvesting outcomes. That tool discusses the rationale and gives illustrative examples of running a participatory OH workshop, and these are not repeated here. Please read them first. Tool 8 is the online version of Tool 6 on outcomes analysis and strategic learning. A great way to find out if WIEGO’s interventions – trainings or other kinds of supports to Nets and MBOs – have worked well, or if people have used our tools and materials, is to engage them in a follow-up evaluation workshop. This Tool takes you through the process of supporting participants to describe changes they or their organizations have influenced since WIEGO’s interventions, or since they got WIEGO’s toolkits or materials. The online workshop in Tool 8 should take place one or a few days after this first workshop, giving you time to analyse the harvested outcomes before the workshop. It engages participants to interpret the analysis of the outcomes they harvested. They consider if and how well they are using the materials and having the influence they hope to have, whether on their own institutions or on external actors. The online workshops described in these two tools (7 and 8) aims to strengthen capacity of participants in telling their stories and in analysing their influence and its strategic implications." (The Focus of this Tool)
Purpose: Why evaluate effectivenessof WIEGO's training and tools? 1
Preparation, 3
Some general tips about facilitating online, 5
Online tools, 6
Advance meeting of facilitators, producers, translators, 8
Agenda, 10
The workshop, 13
Part 1: Getting started, 14
Part 2: Preparing for group work - how to draft outcomes, 16
Part 3: Groups harvesting everyone's stories of what they have done, 18
Part 4: Sharing our stories and closing, 20
Post-workshop debrief and preparation for workshop 2, 23
Annex: Handouts, 27