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Email: [email protected] Tel: +233 (0) 503362035 +233 (0)30 224 3098 Website: www.pdaghana.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/PDAGhana Twitter: @pdaghana SPECIAL 4-DAY TRAINING COURSE ON: Designing rigorous and inclusive impact evaluations with PIALA (Participatory Impact Assessment & Learning Approach) What is this course about? Development today takes place in complex contexts with infinitely conflicting issues and interests. Interventions by consequence become less standardized and evaluable, with influences more dense and problems more systemic. The SDG imperative to ‘leave no one behind’ further challenges traditional evaluation practice. • Do you want to learn about how to evaluate systems change at a relatively large scale (N)? • Do you want to find out about how to rigorously analyse causality in contexts where baselines and control groups don’t work? • Do you want your evaluation to facilitate solid debate with stakeholders about sustainable and inclusive impact? • Do you want your evaluation to walk the talk of ‘leaving no one behind’ and learn how to enable participation without compromising rigour? PIALA (or “Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach”) is a theory-based and mixed- methods approach that seeks to address these challenges by offering a set of key design principles, standards, elements and options. The 4-day training is framed around making thoughtful design decisions (e.g. related to scale, scope, engagement, counterfactual, methods…) to maximize the value or utility of an impact evaluation. Participants will be introduced to the five PIALA elements and learn how they can be adapted to different contexts and needs: (a) systemic Theory of Change; (b) multi-stage cluster sampling of/in ‘systems’; (c) participatory mixed-methods; (d) participatory sensemaking; and (e) configurational analysis. Who is it for? • Commissioners who have to manage evaluation funds and assess the value-for-money of proposals crossing their desks; • Managers who have to dream up the terms of reference and steer and use impact evaluations for developing or adapting their programmes and policies; • Professionals whose job is to design and conduct impact evaluations in complex contexts, and wish to do this in a participatory and rigorous way. ...everyone matters 28-31 August 2017 Stone Lodge | Asutsuare, Ghana Ghana
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Email: [email protected] Tel: +233 (0) 503362035 +233 (0)30 224 3098 Website: www.pdaghana.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/PDAGhana Twitter: @pdaghana
SPECIAL 4-DAY TRAINING COURSE ON: Designing rigorous and inclusive impact evaluations with PIALA (Participatory Impact Assessment & Learning Approach) What is this course about? Development today takes place in complex contexts with infinitely conflicting issues and interests. Interventions by consequence become less standardized and evaluable, with influences more dense and problems more systemic. The SDG imperative to ‘leave no one behind’ further challenges traditional evaluation practice.
• Do you want to learn about how to evaluate systems change at a relatively large scale (N)?
• Do you want to find out about how to rigorously analyse causality in contexts where baselines and control groups don’t work?
• Do you want your evaluation to facilitate solid debate with stakeholders about sustainable and inclusive impact?
• Do you want your evaluation to walk the talk of ‘leaving no one behind’ and learn how to enable participation without compromising rigour?
PIALA (or “Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach”) is a theory-based and mixed-
methods approach that seeks to address these challenges by offering a set of key design principles, standards, elements and options.
The 4-day training is framed around making thoughtful design decisions (e.g. related to scale, scope, engagement, counterfactual, methods…) to maximize the value or utility of an impact evaluation.
Participants will be introduced to the five PIALA elements and learn how they can be adapted to different contexts and needs: (a) systemic Theory of Change; (b) multi-stage cluster sampling of/in ‘systems’; (c) participatory mixed-methods; (d) participatory sensemaking; and (e) configurational analysis.
Who is it for? • Commissioners who have to manage evaluation funds and
assess the value-for-money of proposals crossing their desks; • Managers who have to dream up the terms of reference and
steer and use impact evaluations for developing or adapting their programmes and policies;
• Professionals whose job is to design and conduct impact evaluations in complex contexts, and wish to do this in a participatory and rigorous way.
...everyone matters
28-31 August 2017 Stone Lodge | Asutsuare, Ghana
Ghana
Email: [email protected] Tel: +233 (0) 503362035 +233 (0)30 224 3098 Website: www.pdaghana.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/PDAGhana Twitter: @pdaghana
SPECIAL 4-DAY TRAINING COURSE ON PIALA
How much does it cost? The total cost of the course is USD 1 000 (One Thousand). This includes workshop registration, training materials, accommodation, lunch and snacks. On completion of the course, all participants will be issued with a certificate.
Who are the trainers? Adinda Van Hemelrijck ([email protected]) works as an independent consultant on design, evaluation and learning around impact in collaborative settings in international development. She maintains a strong focus on coaching and facilitation of multi-stakeholder engagements to foster collective impact towards more
rights-based and transformative change. She led the design and piloting of PIALA in Vietnam, Ghana and Myanmar. Among her clients are IFAD, UNICEF, IIED, Oxfam, Comic Relief, CRS and others.
Glowen Kyei-Mensah ([email protected]) is the Managing Director of Participatory Development Associates (PDA) Ltd. She has more than 10 years’ experience working with development organisations. This includes technical expertise and experience in programme management, planning, advocacy, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluating. She has
worked extensively with Civil Society and Government on issues of citizen voice and participation. She coordinated the impact evaluation that piloted PIALA with IFAD in Ghana.
How to apply? To apply, visit www.pdaghana.com, select IDPM from the menu, download and complete an IDPM application form and email it to [email protected] or [email protected].
Or call +233 (0) 503 362 035 or +233 (0) 302 970 177.
Deadline for application AND payment is 1st of August 2017. You will receive confirmation upon payment.
If you apply before the 1st of July, you will receive 10% discount. The maximum amount of participants is 30, so admittance is on a first come first served basis.
Further information? Please contact:
• Adinda Van Hemelrijck ([email protected]) for content-related questions
• Glowen Kyei-Mensah ([email protected]) for practical and logistical questions.
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