Language: English
Trainers:
- Xoan Garcia (UNDP)
- Zazie Tolmer (UNDP)
- Simone Uriartt (UNDP)
Brief Description:
This interactive workshop introduces system and portfolio approaches for addressing complex development challenges, such as energy transition, urban transformation, and social cohesion. This session features practical, hands-on exercises on designing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework that is learning-driven, system-oriented, adaptive, and focused on long-term impact.
Objectives:
- Learn how to apply a systems lens to challenges by generating new frames for understanding complex issues & supplying a constant pipeline of new options for decisions maker.
- Discover how to design a system-oriented, learning-driven Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework. Rather than seeing uncertainty as a failure of planning, this approach embraces emergence as an opportunity, fostering a mindset of continuous learning and adaptation.
- Understand the essential conditions for integrating system & portfolio driven MEL approaches into your organization, from rethinking internal structures to transforming ways of working for greater adaptability and impact.
Format:
By using a simulation as the learning modality to mimic complex systems' dynamics and highlight key features of the portfolio approach and system MEL.
Target audience:
- Government officials from national and sub-national institutions, who are directly and indirectly engaged with evaluation and public policy.
- Other evaluation stakeholders – including the civil society organizations, academia, the private sector, and partner agency staff – who are seeking to inform government officials.