Trainings

Key Benefits

• Deepen understanding: Gain a comprehensive grasp of causal pathways evaluation, its benefits, and how it can be implemented in a participatory way that advances equity. 

• Counter myths: Overcome common misconceptions that hinder causal pathways exploration.

• Understand implementation: Learn to select appropriate approaches, identify resources, and ensure high quality and rigor in your causal pathways evaluations.

• Foster buy-in: Discover strategies to encourage program officers and other foundation staff to adopt causal pathways exploration.

• Customize your training: Benefit from a tailored experience that aligns with your foundation's specific needs and objectives.

Training Objectives

Objectives for this training can be selected from among the following: 

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers have an understanding of what it means to explore causal pathways, as well as the benefits, particularly related to advancing equitable outcomes, of doing so.

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers will be able to counter some of the common myths that hinder exploration of causal pathways.

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers will become familiar with and will be able to successfully explain to program officers a variety of approaches for exploring causal pathways and will understand and be able to explain to program officers how to select appropriate approaches under different circumstances, when it makes sense to undertake such exploration, and what resources and capacities are required to do so.

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers will understand how to ensure rigor and quality in the approaches used for exploring causal pathways.

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers will understand the importance of considering power and participation when ensuring rigor and quality in the approaches used for exploring causal pathways in the interest of advancing equitable outcomes. 

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers will be exposed to  ways of thinking that embrace causal pathways exploration to advance equitable outcomes and will be supported to reflect on their own ways of thinking in this regard. 

• Foundation strategy, learning, and evaluation officers will identify strategies that can encourage and enable program officers to value and practice causal pathways exploration in their monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts to advance equitable outcomes. 

Offerings

We will be hosting these trainings for free on the dates listed below. Foundation that are interested in having a private training can reach out to Carolina at carolina@causalpathways.org. ​