Introductory sessions
Explore causal methods and approaches
Due to popular demand, we are repeating some of the Day 3 sessions from our 2023 Causal Pathways Symposium, and we’ve added two new sessions!
Are you curious to learn more about how to explore how change is coming about in complex contexts where multiple actors and factors are involved? The Causal Pathways Initiative is excited to offer a series of webinars to introduce evaluators and evaluation commissioners to a number of approaches that can help us explore and understand these causal pathways. During the weeks of April 15th and 22nd, we will offer nine one-hour webinars during which experts will introduce participants to ways to think about method selection, as well as to approaches that can be used to explore causal pathways.
See topics below; registration closed on April 10, 2024. Make sure to opt in to our newsletter at the bottom of the page to be the first to know about future training opportunities!
Offerings
4/15 @ 11:00am ET
How do I mix and combine methods?
In this session we will explore when to use different methods and how to combine them to make visible causal pathways.
Marina Apgar
Institute of Development Studies
Tom Aston
Independent
Consultant
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4/16 @ 11:00am ET
Introduction to Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP)
In this session we will discuss QuIP, a non-experimental goal free approach to impact evaluation that can map and analyze causal mechanisms.
Fiona Remnant
Bath SDR
James Copestake
Bath SDR
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4/17 @ 10:00am ET
Causal Mapping for Evaluators
This session will focus on causal mapping, a tool that helps with mapping causal relationships in evaluation, including visualizing them.
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Steve Powell
Causal Map
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4/18 @ 11:00am ET
Introduction to Realist Evaluation
This session is an introduction to Realist Evaluation, a theory based evaluation approach based on the idea that interventions do not work for everyone, all the time.
Melanie Punton
Itad
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4/22 @ 11:00am ET
Introduction to Outcome Harvesting as an Approach for Exploring Causal Pathways
This session will focus on outcome harvesting, a method to collect evidence of what has changed and whether and how an intervention has contributed to these changes.
Carlisle Levine
BLE Solutions
Hippolyt Pul
Institute for Peace and Development
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Resource on bricolage
Inclusive Rigor
This session will introduce the inclusive rigor framework. It identifies three interconnected domains of evaluation design and practice: effective methodological bricolage, meaningful participation and inclusion, utilization and impact.
4/22 @ 12:30pm ET
Leslie Wingender
Humanity United
Helene Bradburn
Independent Consultant
Marina Apgar
Institute of Development Studies
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4/23 @ 11:00am ET
Causal Link Monitoring
This session will introduce causal link monitoring, a method for integrating monitoring data and evaluation in order to address causality amid complexity.
Heather Britt
Independent Consultant
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4/23 @ 12:30pm ET
Relational Rubrics for Causal MEL (NEW!)
In this session, we will introduce relational rubrics, a tool that can help you learn prospectively about causal pathways and emergent results over time. Rubrics are a form of qualitative scale to denote levels of performance and support assessment, explain what the standard means and clarify the reasoning behind an assessment. They are an increasingly popular tool to monitor, evaluate and learn about complex change.
Florencia Guerzovich
Independent Consultant
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Alix Wadeson
Independent Consultant
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4/24 @ 11:00am ET
Contribution Analysis (NEW!)
This session will explore the use of Contribution Analysis as a theory-based approach to evaluation to unpack complexity within complex systems change evaluations.
Drew Koleros
Mathematica
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