Keystone's participation at the Impact Evaluation conference in Cairo

Members of the Keystone team participated at the Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness conference organised by NONIE, 3ie and AfrEA in Cairo on 31 March-2 April 2009.

Keystone team members presented and participated in various pre-conference workshops and sessions where they promoted the concept of constituency voice and the emerging methodology of comparative constituency feedback.

You can read the presentations and related materials here:

Pre-conference workshop: Impact Planning, Assessment and Learning (IPAL) in complex change processes: Theory of change, constituency voice and public reporting. Keystone

• IPAL presentation (apologies, 5 files: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)
  
• Theory of change tool
• IPAL overview
• Facilitator's notes (part 1, part 2)

Pre-conference workshop: Impact evaluation for development effectiveness. Sanjeev Khagram (iScale/Harvard Business School), Patricia Rogers(CIRCLE/RMIT), Zenda Offir (Evalnet), Andre Proctor (Keystone)

• Impact Evaluation by Sanjeev Khagram
  
• Complexity by Patricia Rogers
  
• Reforming (impact) evaluation by Zenda Offir
  
• Constituency Voice by Andre Proctor

Pre-conference workshop: Challenges in Agricultural Development for Impact Evaluation”. Lawrence Haddad, Peter Taylor and Edoardo Masset (IDS), Alex Jacobs (Keystone)

• Assessing Success in Agricultural Development by Lawrence Haddad
  
• Aggregating Impact - Should it be done? Can it be done? by Edoardo Masset
• Constituency Voice by Alex Jacobs

Conference session: round-table discussion: “Constituency Voice - a key element in impact evalution”. Lawrence Haddad (IDS), Alnoor Ebrahim (HBS), Anabel Cruz (ICD), Jacinto Gavino (Asia Institute of Management), Alex Jacobs (Keystone).

Conference session:Rethinking, Reshaping and Reforming Impact Evaluation for Development Effectiveness in the 21st Century. Sanjeev Khagram (iScale/Harvard Business School), Patricia Rogers (CIRCLE/RMIT), Alex Jacobs (Keystone)

• Impact Evaluation by Sanjeev Khagram
  
• Complexity by Patricia Rogers
• Constitutency Voice by Alex Jacobs
  

Conference session: Comparative Constituency Feedback – a practical way of facilitating whole system learning and mutually accountable relationships for outcomes.  Andre Proctor (Keystone) 

• Constituency Voice by Andre Proctor