Welcome!
Would you like to learn more about Outcome Harvesting? Do you have experience in Outcome Harvesting, but would you like to improve your skills? Are you looking for a training for your whole team or organisation? You have come to the right place.
The Outcome Harvesting Training Team, Goele Scheers and Richard Smith, are experienced Outcome Harvesters, who provide both public as well as in-house training, online or face-to-face.
What do we offer?
Public Training
We are organising 2 online training courses in 2024:
May training: Live sessions on May 13, 14, 16, 21, 23, 24 at 10.00 CET
November Training: Live sessions on November 7, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21 at 19.00 CET
Click on the link below for more details and to register.
Different dates / time? Please get in touch if you are interested in online training or face-face training in a different location or at different times of the year and we will try to build your request into our plans - outcomeharvesting.training@gmail.com
In-house Training
We can provide training for your team. Please contact us for more information.
Who are we?
The Outcome Harvesting Training Team – Goele Scheers and Richard Smith - who together have experience of harvesting outcomes for monitoring and evaluation from over 70 countries, working with local and international NGOs, multi-lateral organisations, funders, government ministries, education institutions and networks.
The team has applied Outcome Harvesting with interventions that have diverse goals including peace building, advocacy, human rights, democracy, sustainable agriculture and forestry, gender equality, governance and accountability, capacity development, child protection and disaster response. Invariably, harvesting outcomes has involved training / coaching others in its use, whether one-one or with work teams.
Each has benefited greatly from working with Ricardo Wilson-Grau, the lead creator of Outcome Harvesting, with whom they have co-developed the Outcome Harvesting tool, undertaken or participated in outcome harvests and formed discussion panels at conference sessions.
Goele Scheers
Goele Scheers is an independent consultant in planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning. She started working with Outcome Mapping in 2005 in her position as PM&E Coordinator at the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). In 2007, she met Ricardo Wilson-Grau and together they conducted an evaluation of the GPPAC network using elements of what later became known as the Outcome Harvesting approach. Goele integrated the Outcome Harvesting approach in the monitoring system of the network and trained GPPAC members worldwide in its use. In her current position as consultant, Goele supports organisations across the world in using Outcome Harvesting. She conducts evaluations, trains people in using the approach and helps them to set up their monitoring systems based on Outcome Harvesting. Through these experiences, Goele developed a strong expertise in training and coaching people in using Outcome Harvesting and adapting it to the needs of their organisations.
Goele is a facilitator of the Outcome Harvesting Community.
Learn more about Goele here
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Richard Smith
Richard has been an independent consultant since 2011 specialising in evaluation and training that supports the practical adaptation of the Outcome Harvesting tool by social change initiatives and funding programmes. He first used Outcome Harvesting in 2010 when commissioning an evaluation of a biodiversity capacity development and advocacy network. Through this he gained first hand experience of the demands Outcome Harvesting puts on programme staff as well as the highly valuable insights and evidence the tool can bring to light. Subsequently, through supporting or leading numerous, diverse applications of Outcome Harvesting he has developed a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges of using Outcome Harvesting, an understanding he enjoys sharing by providing training / mentoring in person and remotely. In addition, through his role as a steward and board member of the Outcome Mapping Learning Community, he shares responsibility for the ongoing development of this learning platform including its rich resources on Outcome Harvesting.
Learn more about Richard here.
What is Outcome Harvesting?
Outcome Harvesting is a monitoring and evaluation tool that is being used worldwide to robustly identify, describe, analyse and interpret outcomes regardless of whether they were pre-defined.
Outcome Harvesting collects (“harvests”) evidence of what has changed (“outcomes”) and, then, working backwards, determines whether and how an intervention has contributed to these changes.
Outcome Harvesting has proven to be especially useful in complex situations when it is not possible to define concretely most of what an intervention aims to achieve, or even, what specific actions will be taken over a multi-year period.
Further information, including numerous examples, presentations and discussions can be found on the Outcome Harvesting and Outcome Mapping community websites, and in Ricardo Wilson-Grau's book: Outcome Harvesting Principles, Steps and Evaluation Applications.