Fresh concepts, ideas and tools:
 Measuring Success: What's New, What's Next? Ellen Sprenger provides a crisp and critical review of different approaches to evaluation from the linear logframe to JASS' three phases of power.
Measuring Success- From Evaluation to Learning Srilatha Batliwala provides provocative insights to contrast different political approaches to knowledge to help organizations move from extraction to more organic forms of learning and evaluation.
Citizen Centered Advocay Impact Framework From a New Weave of Power... this planning and evaluation tool pushes advocates to think beyond policy as a measurement for change
NGO and Grassroots Policy Influence: What is Success? Valerie Miller compares the advocacy and organizing work of two Filipino coalitions to help us understand how to measure advocacy success. |
Case stories:
Evaluating Women’s Rights - How have we measured our Success? Srilatha Batliwala assessess the last three decades of women's rights work at global, regional, and local levels, giving a critical perspective on the highlights and gaps.
Insights From a Conversation about Assessing Social Change in Washington, DC As part of JASS' participation in a two year global learning project called "Assessing Social Change," Molly Reilly shares the perspectives of grassroots activists organizing in poor communities of Washington, DC.
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Evaluations:
JASS carries out evaluations with and for numerous organizations. The following are excerpts from a few reports.
EURODAD
Solidarity Center
DCCADV
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Assessing Social Change:
JASS participated in a global learning project involving social justice actors around the world to debate and define better approaches to assessing and learning from chage. This porject was coordinated by IDS and spported by the ford foundation. a publication with case studies and debates in forthcoming.
Great resources:
People, Power and Change
Critical Readings on Assessing and Learning for Social Change
“Logframe this!”
and more on evaluation from ActionAid International
Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy: A Scoping Study by Jennifer Chapman and Amboka Wameyo |
