South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (Samea) and the Public Service Commission are proud to co-host with the University of Johannesburg and University of Stellenbosch a series of seminars on program theory and logic models for systemic evaluation by Professor Patricia Rogers.
Patricia Rogers is Professor of Public Sector Evaluation at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) Australia. With more than 25 years’ experience in evaluating government and non-government programs and policies, she has a particular interest in evidence-based policy for complicated and complex interventions. She was the inaugural Chair of the American Evaluation Association’s topical interest group on systems in evaluation and has recently written the book ‘Purposeful Program Theory’, with Sue Funnell, on situational appropriate use of program theory and logic models.
The seminars will explore how program theory and logic models can be used for systemic evaluations, addressing relationships, perspectives and boundaries, and recognising interdependency, multidimensionality, and interaction. While logic models such as logframes and results chains represent programs and policies as linear and predictable, program theory can represent complicated aspects of interventions – such multiple organisations working in parallel or sequence; interventions that work at multiple levels (e.g. individual, site, organisation); multiple causal strands within an intervention; and interventions that both influence and are influenced by the context - and complex aspects – where it is adaptive, responsive, emergent and unpredictable. This requires thoughtful decisions about where to draw the boundaries of what is being represented in the program theory. Ultimately everything is connected, but a logic model cannot include everything. The session will also explore the barriers to using more systemic versions of program theory and how these might be overcome.
Details are as follows:
First seminar:
Date: 17 February 2011
Time: 15h00 to 17h00
Venue: University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Humanities: C Ring 319 (Common room), UJ, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Topic: How to evaluate complex phenomena
Contact person:
Professor Fanie Cloete
Tel 083 535 5180
E-mail: fcloete@uj.ac.za
Second seminar:
Date: 18 February 2011
Time: 11h00 to 13h00
Venue: University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Humanities: C Ring 319 (Common room), UJ, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Topic: How to develop logic value chains for programme evaluation
Contact person:
Professor Fanie Cloete
Tel: 083 535 5180
E-mail: fcloete@uj.ac.za
Third seminar:
Date: 22 February 2011
Time: 14h00 to 16h00
Venue: University of Stellenbosch, School of Public Leadership: Van der Horst building, Room 102, Bellville Park Campus, Carl Cronje Drive, Bellville
Topic: How to develop logic value chains for programme evaluation
Enquiries:
Babette Rabie
Tel: 021 918 4186
E-mail: brabie@sun.ac.za
Bronwyn Phoenix
Tel: 021 918 4135
