(She lives in a very cold place.) At this point, I knit a passable scarf at a leisurely pace. She knits everything, including this darling chicken sweater. She wanted to impart her passion and skill for knitting on me I was mildly interested. My sister spent nearly a decade trying to “build” my knitting capacity. īlog posts represent individual author’s viewsĬonsiderations when designing approaches to assess and support advocacy capacity. *h/t to Pierre Basimise Ngalishi Kanyegere for his From Poverty to Power blog post “The NGO-ization of Research: What are the Risks” and others concerned about the effects of professionalization and bureaucratization of social change and other civil society work. All need to help build a culture of critical reflection and adaptation in response, which will ensure MEL efforts contribute to more effective advocacy.
The orientation to formal, complicated, and resource-intensive processes risks privileging approaches that are out of reach to all but the best-resourced civil society organizations and campaigns.Įveryone involved in MEL - funders, senior managers and boards, advocacy practitioners, and evaluators - has a role to play in helping ensure it is oriented and supported in a way that is grounded in the way advocacy influences change. What’s practically useful to effective advocacy can be at odds with more traditional and formal evaluation practices.
Doing the basic things well, by ensuring advocates have the time and space to consider, think about, deliberate and interpret information about their work.Resisting rogue indicators that drive activities and outputs rather than illuminate outcomes and instead interrogate progress against multiple dimensions of change.Thinking about contribution differently, for example by exploring different advocacy roles and understanding how well they have been played when analyzing contribution.Embracing uncertainty about results by getting the best information we can given the resources we have, and make reasoned claims on the basis of it.Recognizing unpredictability, for example by using problem-centered strategy development.We discuss tactics to streamline and calibrate MEL for advocacy by: The inherent uncertainty and unpredictability of advocacy means that rather than searching for this non-existent “royal road”, we should be following the natural pathways of advocacy. Therefore, like many complex change processes, it does not lend itself to simple measurement promised by some more traditional evaluation approaches. Social and policy change is complex, and influencing it through advocacy is a dynamic, adaptive, complicated process. It is precisely this entrenched focus on “evalu-ization” of advocacy that we’re pushing against in the paper.
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But the nature of many of the questions – focusing on indicators, for example, or how to attribute results – also points to the persistent focus on how to make advocacy fit within the contours of traditional evaluation. The sheer volume of the questions points to an incredible pent up demand for solutions to evaluate advocacy. Washburn-McReavy.We received dozens of questions in advance of a webinar organized by the Advocacy Accelerator on the ideas in our paper, No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to St. Edward 9401 Nesbitt Avenue South Bloomington, MN 55437. Mass of Christian Burial to be held Friday July 8th, at 11 AM with visitation beginning at 9:30 AM at The Church of St. He enjoyed fishing, golfing, playing cards and spending time with his family. He and Kathy owned seven service stations over their 46 years in business. After high school, he moved to Minneapolis and worked as a welder before getting his first Standard Oil station in 1972. Bob grew up on a loving family farm in rural Richmond, MN. Survived by loving wife of 59 years Kathy children, Sue (Mike) Kotchevar, Tim (Pam), Sandy (Jack) Mooney grandchildren, Matt (Lauren) and Nate (Katie) Schlangen, Evan Kotchevar, Jenny and Alex Mooney great-grandchildren, Lucas, Anna, Avery, Ella seven brothers and seven sisters many nieces and nephews and other loving family and friends. Preceded in death by his parents Paul and Isabella, brothers, Tony and Donny.
Schlangen, Robert Raymond age 81, of Edina, MN passed away peacefully with loving family by his side on July 3rd, 2022.