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Systemic Monitoring & Evaluation at SEEP:

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Partner Spotlight

Mesopartner is a knowledge firm that specialises in territorial development, competitiveness and innovation. As a development consultancy, Mesopartner is known for pragmatic development instruments and concepts. Since 2010 Mesopartner has been assessing its own methods, tools and concepts based on insights from systems theories and complexity theories. Learn more about this process at http://systemic-insight.com.

About the Interviewer





Marcus Jenal
mesopartner 

 Marcus is Swiss and has been working in international development for more than seven years. He started his own consultancy in 2011. It is his goal to bring systemic approaches based on complexity theory and systems thinking principles to international development. He wants to contribute to the development of healthy systems, where poverty reduction is part of economy and society.

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Systemic Monitoring and Evaluation

SEEP explores cutting edge thinking and enquiry around ways to improve the current M&E paradigm and improve practice in measuring impacts in market systems. When considering markets from a systems perspective, it becomes crucial to recognize that markets are not predictable “machines”, but rather complex and dynamic “organisms” that are constantly learning. Changes in complex and adaptive systems must be monitored and measured using approaches that embrace complexity and facilitation principles, concepts and tools rather than linear and deterministic ones. 

New Podcast in the Systemic M&E Discussion Series, in partnership with mesopartner

Dr. Jeanne Downing

Senior Enterprise Development Advisor 
Office of Microenterprise Development, USAID

Jeanne Downing talks about the discussions she and her colleagues have within USAID about the necessity of using a systemic approach in development. 

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Synthesis: Monitoring and Measuring Change in Market Systems – Rethinking the Current Paradigm


This paper is a synthesis of the work of the Systemic Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) initiative of the SEEP Network between August and December 2012. The initiative, coordinated by MaFI (The Market Facilitation Initiative), brought together practitioners and academics to explore two issues:

  • The obstacles and challenges that field practitioners face when trying to monitor and evaluate changes in market systems using the current linear, top-down, rigid, mechanistic paradigm.
  • The principles and guidelines that can bring donors and practitioners together to build systemic M&E frameworks and tools that produce not only relevant evidence about their impacts on markets systems, but also appropriate and timely information for field practitioners to navigate the fast changing and unpredictable landscape of market systems.

 


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Resources

Assessing Systemic Change: Implementation Guidelines for the DCED Standard
Assessing Systemic Change: Implementation Guidelines for the DCED Standard ›

Added AUG 29, 2014

Evaluating Systems and Systemic Change for Inclusive Market Development
Evaluating Systems and Systemic Change for Inclusive Market Development ›

Added AUG 25, 2014

Making Sense of 'Messiness' - Monitoring and measuring change in market systems: a practitioner's perspective
Making Sense of ’Messiness’ – Monitoring and measuring change in market systems: a practitioner’s perspective ›

Added JUN 13, 2014

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Measuring Impact in Market Systems: Rethinking the Current Paradigm (Video)

The opening plenary of the 2012 SEEP Annual Conference featured mesopartner’s Shawn Cunningham, Dr. Shamim Bodhanya of the University of KwaZulu Natal, Dr. Elizabeth Dunne of Impact LLC, and Richard Hummelbrunner of OAR Regionalberatung exploring  cutting edge thinking and inquiry in effective ways to measure results of market and financial development interventions. Watch the video