Comments on: Theory’s fine, but what about practice? Oxfam’s MEL chief on the evidence agenda https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/theorys-fine-but-what-about-practice-oxfams-mel-boss-on-the-evidence-agenda/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:52:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Steve Wiggins https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/theorys-fine-but-what-about-practice-oxfams-mel-boss-on-the-evidence-agenda/#comment-4831 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:58:37 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=13613#comment-4831 Nice post, Jennie.

You end where another discussion needs to begin.
How do we get organisations, and individuals, to admit setbacks and failures to promote learning?
How do we distinguish between setbacks that may lie on the road to eventual success, from clear indications that the enterprise is doomed?
At first sight, there are no easy answers and there may not be any difficult ones, either!

]]> By: kieran https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/theorys-fine-but-what-about-practice-oxfams-mel-boss-on-the-evidence-agenda/#comment-4830 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:47:24 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=13613#comment-4830 So to doubt is to know but to boast is to win funding?

]]> By: James https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/theorys-fine-but-what-about-practice-oxfams-mel-boss-on-the-evidence-agenda/#comment-4829 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:18:33 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=13613#comment-4829 Jennie, A difficult job you’ve got but this all sounds very sensible. Oxfam should be proud that it has made a commitment to carry out evaluations on a random selection of its projects/programs – a profound and very welcome change from the past. Now, what patterns emerge from all that lovely data, and what does it mean for management?

Good luck!

]]> By: Adam Kessler https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/theorys-fine-but-what-about-practice-oxfams-mel-boss-on-the-evidence-agenda/#comment-4828 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:35:52 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=13613#comment-4828 Hi Duncan,

Great article. I was just wondering where you got the ‘MEL that’ picture from? I used the same map to show the same idea in a recent guideline on monitoring in conflict and fragile affected areas – http://www.enterprise-development.org/page/download?id=2098

Just for my own interest, did you read our guidelines and pick that up? Would be great to see that someone actually read it :)

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