China’s size militates against one-size-fits-all solutions, and the government encourages experimentation as part of a change management process that helps manage complexity. Simultaneously, government and researchers have used various strategies to help capture emergent policy solutions that can inform policy making by central and provincial governments. As China’s reforms deepen and become more complex, Chinese research institutions are looking to tools from the development M&E community to help strengthen systemic learning. Equally, as China increases its overseas engagement, including in health, Chinese approaches to change management face new challenges. The presentation draws on recent publications by the authors on the evaluation of China’s domestic health reforms, and on the evaluation of a major UK-China collaboration supporting increased Chinese engagement in global health.
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14 March 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Speaker(s): Lewis Husain
20 February 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
This seminar presents findings from a mixed-methods evaluation that used Contribution Scores and qualitative data to assess the impacts of Solidarity Groups. While saving and lending are elements, Solidarity Groups represent a holistic departure from microfinance models. Groups collect the resources of poor and marginal people with the aim of enabling their members to escape debt and exploitation, gain resilience and build more cohesive and equal communities.
Speaker(s): Phil Mader
7 January 2019 - 9:00am to 11 January 2019 - 5:00pm
Gain the skills and knowledge to more effectively design impact evaluations using a contribution analysis framing.
6 December 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) aimed to demonstrate how the Millennium Development Goals could be achieved locally through an integrated approach to sustainable development. The project was first piloted in Kenya and Ethiopia, and in 2006 was launched at scale, eventually covering 14 project sites in 10 countries in Africa. The project has been controversial, and by 2010 there were significant criticisms of the evidence being used by the project’s proponents.
Speaker(s): Chris Barnett
8 November 2018 - 1:00pm
This seminar will present results on a DfID funded research study on the nature and quality of smallholder data collection by Agribusinesses in East Africa. Looking across six different value chains (leather, mangoes, livestock, dairy, tea and maize), the seminar will cover barriers and incentives for collecting more relevant data on smallholders who work with agribusinesses and their applicability towards the SDGs. The seminar will also reflect on the challenges for evaluators in engaging with stakeholder groups (such as investors and purchasing groups), the role of digital technologies making information collection easier, and how that ultimately effects evaluation results.
Speaker(s): Peter O'Flynn, Seife Ayele
21 June 2018 - 12:30pm
On the 21st June 2018, the Centre for Development Impact and the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme will host a roundtable session to discuss how evaluations can be relevant for assessing interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals.
4 June 2018 - 9:00am to 8 June 2018 - 5:30pm
This course builds on the deep historical experience with participatory methods that IDS has pioneered and nurtured, and shares new frontier methods for quality implementation of participatory processes at scale (with large numbers of people and across broader geographical space) to support learning focused and complexity-aware M&E systems.
20 May 2018 - 9:00am to 25 May 2018 - 5:00pm
Equip yourself with a wide range of tools and analytical frameworks that are commonly used to evaluate complex interventions when experimental and quasi-experimental approaches are not feasible.
22 March 2018 - 1:00pm
In this CDI seminar, James Copestake will introduce the QuIP and explain how and why it combines features of causal process tracing, outcome harvesting and realist evaluation while addressing confirmation bias and confirmability problems associated with much qualitative social research.
Speaker(s): James Copestake
15 February 2018 - 1:00pm
Steff Deprez will present the principles and practice of the SenseMaker methodology and provide examples of SenseMaker applications in diverse programmes for both monitoring and evaluation processes.
Speaker(s): Steff Deprez
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