Conference Report: Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems 3-4 April 2019, the Netherlands

Kusters, C.S.L.; advisory, Cdi; Hove, Hermine ten; Bosch, Diane; Herens, M.C.; Wigboldus, Seerp

doi:10.18174/506604

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“…We developed a ToC following advice from several guidance documents ( 27 – 29 ) along with consultations with the team. Often absent from ToC guidance documents is the focus on systems change, yet, capturing systems change is particularly important for food safety programs that influence (and are influenced by) food systems ( 30 ). Our adapted 5-step ToC process is iterative, cyclical, and reflective, involving: (1) contextual analysis; (2) identifying the goal; (3) working backward to identify what changes must occur to reach the goal; (4) working forward to identify how the program will contribute to changes; and, (5) stating assumptions underlying change processes ( Figure 1 ).…”

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Unpacking the Theory Behind One Health Food Safety Programs: A Vietnam Case Study

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Many One Health programs are inherently complex, characterized by multiple perspectives from multiple sectors, delivery across various scales, and a focus on complex problems at the convergence of people, animals, and the environment. This complexity makes them difficult to conceptualize, requiring frameworks to organize the different program components. Evaluation frameworks that unpack the sequence of events linking program activities to outcomes (e.g., Theory of Change) and track outcomes (e.g., Outcome Mapping) show promise in supporting the development of One Health programs. While widely used in international development and health contexts, there has been little reflection on the use of Theory of Change and Outcome Mapping within One Health efforts. This paper reflects on the process of applying these frameworks to conceptualize a One Health food safety program in Vietnam. We find Theory of Change fostered the characterization of a change pathway toward safer pork, while Outcome Mapping kept us informed of where along the change pathway we were. One Health programs considering evaluation frameworks should adopt elements that make sense to them, be intentional about co-designing the evaluation, and view evaluation as a process, not a product.

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Unpacking the Theory Behind One Health Food Safety Programs: A Vietnam Case Study

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“…§ A diversity of tools and methods for M&E for consideration, as one single approach will not be able to deal with complexity. 105, 123 The tools contained in Annex 1 offer a list of M&E approaches that can capture interconnectedness and dynamic interrelationships, embedded norms, beliefs and values, or complex causal processes. 124 In addition to quantitative indicators, qualitative approaches that capture people's perceptions about a subject (e.g., the initiative's impact) are also needed to explain the "why" behind numbers.…”

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Rethinking Our Food Systems: A Guide for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Djampou

2023

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Food systems involve complex challenges, which call for a systemic, multi-level and multi-stakeholder participatory approach for addressing interrelated issues across economic, social and environmental dimensions: the so-called food systems approach. Therefore, multi-stakeholder collaboration needs to be an essential pillar of the food systems approach and the transition to sustainable food systems. Against this background, UNEP, FAO and UNDP jointly created this guide to consolidate learnings and tools gathered from within and beyond the three agencies to contribute to the growing canon of knowledge on how to improve multi-stakeholder collaboration for sustainable food systems transformation. The aim of the guide is to support those interested or engaged in convening, implementing, facilitating or supporting a multi-stakeholder initiative that contributes to the sustainable transformation of food systems, at different levels.

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“…Despite recent investments and some promising examples there continue to be relatively few cases of genuinely systemic evaluations in practice, although this may be changing. Kusters et al (2019: 34) list several promising examples. With reference to monitoring and evaluating the sustainable developmental goals (SDGs), there are calls for complex systems thinking and using systemic approaches to evaluations that connect (Ofir et al, 2019).…”

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Towards systemic evaluation in turbulent times – Second-order practice shift

Schmidt-Abbey¹,

Reynolds²,

Ison

2020

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The need for, and possibilities of, a second-order shift in evaluation practice are explored. Second-order evaluation practice enables an evaluator to improve practice as a skilled practitioner, acknowledging her embeddedness within an evaluand. The article explores evaluation practice as experienced by professional evaluators, using ideas from developmental evaluation coupled with systemic evaluation in the tradition of systems thinking in practice. Systemic evaluation aims to capture systemic sensibilities – the bigger picture – of complex turbulent situations of change underpinning evaluands. Attributes of second-order practice with systemic evaluation are understood as being aligned with both systemic and systematic modes of evaluation praxis. Personal experiences are provided where this juxtaposing praxis has been found wanting. By example, a systems thinking in practice framework is explored as heuristic support for making a second-order practice shift. The article concludes with a discussion of some implications for developments in professionalising evaluation practice and research.

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Conference Report: Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems 3-4 April 2019, the Netherlands

Cited by 3 publications

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Unpacking the Theory Behind One Health Food Safety Programs: A Vietnam Case Study

Unpacking the Theory Behind One Health Food Safety Programs: A Vietnam Case Study

Rethinking Our Food Systems: A Guide for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Towards systemic evaluation in turbulent times – Second-order practice shift

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