symposium
On September 19-21, 2023 the Causal Pathways Initiative hosted three days of connecting, learning, and building a shared understanding of the evaluation and participatory practices that make causal pathways more visible.
This virtual Symposium engaged evaluators, evaluation commissioners, and non-profits who want to learn more about how to understand how, why, and under what conditions change is happening using non-experimental methods, while making their evaluations highly participatory and equity focused.
General Resources
A list of resources focusing on all of the different presentations from the Symposium.
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Symposium Recordings
Check out the Symposium recordings below! You can also find this playlist directly on YouTube.
Causal Pathways Symposium
Causal Pathways Symposium Day 1: Welcome
Causal Pathways Symposium Day 1: Lost Causal
Causal Pathways Symposium Day 1: Philanthropy's Causal
Being Inspired: Exploring what becomes possible when causal pathways are made visible
Resources from Day 1
Session 1: Lost Causal: What do we mean by causal pathways and what myths are getting in the way? Lost Causal PowerPoint Slides
Session 2: Everyone's Causal: Causal analysis with working children, the CLARISSA experience. Everyone's Causal PowerPoint Slides
Session 3: Philanthropy’s causal: Discovering how philanthropic strategy and learning can be informed through causal approaches. Philanthropy's Causal PowerPoint Slides
Resources from Day 2
Getting practical: Exploring what it takes to explore causal pathways
Session 2: When should we be doing this? Evaluation questions and needs that benefit from causal approaches. When should we be doing this? PowerPoint Slides
Resources from Day 3
Digging in: Choosing the methods, practices, and processes that help you learn about causal pathways
Session 1: Engaging with the Causal Pathways Initiative. Engaging with CPI PowerPoint Slides
Sessions 2 and 3: Breakout topics
Check out the links below for videos of the breakout topics:
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Realist evaluation - Slides only
The full playlist of videos of the Symposium can be found towards the top of this page and here.