Mixed Methods Evaluation
James Robinson
Associate Partner
Itad, United Kingdom
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Julian Bagyendera, Dr. (PhD) (she/her/hers)
Executive Director/Team Leader Evaluations
Provide and Equip (P&E)
Kampala, Kampala, Uganda
Location: Room 103
Abstract Information: We will share lessons from our experience of working with Young Ugandans to tell their stories, and using these to influence complex data collection and analysis, building on indigenous storytelling traditions. In teh session we'll cover:·An overview of the assignment and process ·Practical examples of approaches we used ·How we brought these together in a sensemaking process ·The different organisational capacities, skills and technologies that we brought together ·Reflections.
Relevance Statement: The learning from this session is highly relevant for any evaluation professionals looking to include storytelling more explicitly in their evaluations and also considering using more innovative methods in doing so. We’ll cover the teams experience of working with young people in a way that builds on indigenous storytelling traditions but is relevant to young people. As well as the practicalities of doing this we will cover the implications of what this means for evaluation practice and specifically the specialist skills and capabilities needed to engage with young people and document this through video and the implications of this going forward. The session will also be hugely relevant for a broader range of practitioners who are looking to balance individual stories with other data that. Including overcoming the challenge of different data sources initially looking to be telling different stories. The session will talk to the practical challenges of doing this within complex, systems level evaluations with multiple sources (desk review, KIIs, FGDs, individual stories) and lessons learned from trying to do this too quickly. Also, how the team balanced these different data sources to tell a story Another area hugely relevant to the wider pool of evaluators is that we will talk through how we took this complex information and navigated a sensemaking process in a way that our client was able to engage with both the quantitative and qualitative data, including specific stories of change. Evaluators are increasingly being asked to include clients in the analysis and sensemaking process, particularly as part of longer-term contracts. We’ll talk through our experience of presenting and creating the spaces with clients to engage with the data in a way that was not overwhelming. Again, this has implications for evaluation practice in terms of the skills and approaches that we take in evaluations.
Presenter: James Robinson – Itad
Presenter: Julian K. Bagyendera, Dr. (PhD) (she/her/hers) – Provide and Equip (P&E)
Presenter: Denis Pato, n/a – Vijana Corps