OUTCOME HARVESTING
Identify, elaborate and analyze outcomes in order to clarify how program activities may have contributed to change
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Outcome harvesting is for you if you are looking for higher-level program results including those beyond pre-defined deliverables.
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Our facilitators engage stakeholders through workshops, interviews, surveys or document reviews to gather data.
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We provide analysis linking activities to outcomes, highlighting causal relationships.
Outcome Harvesting is an approach that helps organizations working in complex humanitarian or development contexts understand with greater clarity the results of their efforts and how other factors or actors may have contributed to the change. Outcome Harvesting is particularly useful when the right step-by-step sequence to achieve a change cannot be fully mapped out from the outset, such as with advocacy, social change, or organizational evolution where outcomes emerge over time (sometimes over a very long time).
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Outcome Harvesting helps us understand and document changes that have occurred by focusing on qualitative changes, often beyond predefined goals. This approach embraces the complexity of the real world, and tries reveal how an organization’s work may have contributed to a change in behaviour, relationships, actions, policies or practices, recognizing that many other influences may have also played a part.
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Our process begins by engaging a broad range of stakeholders to pin-point what or who has changed, intended or unintended, positive or negative, and then to systematically link these to your organization’s interventions. We facilitate workshops or conduct interviews where participants reflect on what has changed and how they attribute these shifts to the organization’s actions.
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By triangulating evidence from multiple sources, we promote rigor in the process, acknowledging that other factors were also important to achieve change. Outcome Harvesting can nevertheless showcase an organization’s contribution to a change process, and help it gain greater clarity about what ingredients are necessary as part of a learning process to improve its future performance.