Using Outcome Harvesting Approach to Identify Project's Contributions to Regulatory Change in Education Sector (Indonesia case study)

One of Outcome Harvesting’s advantages is suitable to be used in a complex environment where the social actors are varied and unexpected outcomes are possible to occur. Especially where initial planning might not be clear in the beginning of project implementation and changes are expected to emerge during its phases of implementation. Tracking these outcomes requires several steps where the project team and related stakeholders discuss “claimed” changes and try to figure out to which extent those claims can be verified. This presentation is intended to share and discuss the process to extract and verify those claims using the Outcome Harvesting approach. The process involved the project team, the field implementer as well as the related stakeholders. While the evaluator tried its best to stay true to the process of carrying out the Outcome Harvesting procedures, some adjustments were necessary in order to verify claims of changes to finetune with Indonesian context. The project is called BEKAL Pemimpin, funded by David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and currently entering its third phase of implementation in Indonesia. The Outcome Harvesting was carried out for its first two phase implementation and the results are also intended to provide learning and fine tuning for the third phase implementation planned in 2023.