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Constructing collaborative learning: Outcome Mapping and It’s Multiple Uses in the Project Cycle of a SUB Initiative.
Kaia Ambrose
Ceja Andina Project, Corporación Ecopar
Quito, Ecuador
[email protected]
October 2004
Key words: Outcome Mapping, social learning, institutional learning and change (ILAC).
Summary
Outcome Mapping has gone beyond a monitoring and evaluation exercise in the Ceja Andina project. It has provided a space for social learning among strategic project partners, as well as institutional learning within the executing organization of the project. In this sense, monitoring becomes a social analysis exercise, which looks closely at the way development, the sustainable use of biodiversity and community-based natural resource management are being promoted, facilitated, supported, executed and/or led by organizations and local actors. Based on this utilization of the methodology, the project has taken Outcome Mapping and adapted it to meet project needs, with the aim of progressing the methodology into a useful tool for various actor groups. This has been achieved without any formal training by any project staff on the methodology.
This article summarizes Outcome Mapping activities within the Ceja Andina project, highlighting the challenges, changes and projected actions that were born from the application and innovation of the methodology. It then explores two concepts that the methodology has helped support: social learning and institutional learning and change. Finally, it concludes with the key lessons learned and challenges for the future.
Introduction: the story of Outcome Mappi ...