Analyze Best Practices in Building Peace
Peace Catalyst has been searching for a way to measure and articulate the success we see in our projects and programs. We want to answer the questions, “Why exactly is our work important? What specifically is our contribution to changes in individuals, communities, and society at large?”
We have decided to document and analyze outcomes via a monitoring and evaluation approach called Outcome Harvesting (OH). This approach is well-suited for peace work. It’s straightforward and flexible enough to suit a variety of contexts and program types. Peace Catalyst has already completed a pilot study on OH in 2019, and in 2021 we will be training all staff to utilize this methodology to identify and document behavior and attitude changes resulting from our projects and programs. With this information, we’ll be able to identify and replicate best practices among Peace Catalyst programs across the U.S. and better understand how we can contribute more effectively and significantly to social change.
“The outcome harvesting approach forces us to focus on the connections between what we are doing and how things have changed for communities. This means that we focus on what truly matters, which is how our work meets the needs of communities.”
– Deepti Sastry, Impact and Accountability Adviser, “Saferworld learning paper: doing things differently - rethinking monitoring and evaluation to understand change.” 2016.
A donation of $40 equals the cost of a 60-min. individualized coaching session and follow-up with a Peace Catalyst staff member on applying these monitoring and evaluation practices in their context.
A donation of $50 per month equals the cost of organizing and facilitating a monthly 1-hour monitoring and evaluation training with staff members.
A donation of $600 equals the cost of one year of analyzing and collating data into quarterly reports that will quantitatively highlight the significance of our work across various cities.
Your donation helps catalyze projects like this in 2021 by supporting this project’s leads, Stephanie Carey and Nicole Wriedt.
