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If markets are open, complex and adaptive systems why do we still try to measure our impacts on them and their evolution as if they were machines that we can control and predict? A new M&E paradigm is necessary for field practitioners to perform better as facilitators of change, and for policy makers and donors to invest their resources where they will make the biggest impact at the lowest costs. This plenary will explore cutting edge thinking and enquiry around ways to improve the current evaluation paradigm and improved practice in measuring impacts in market systems. The plenary will explore ideas that support the construction and application of systemic approaches to M&E, the principles that should underpin this and how to make it practical for practitioners and policy makers. Check out this amazing line-up!
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Opening Plenary
The SEEP Annual Conference opening plenary will explore cutting edge thinking and enquiry around ways to improve the current evaluation paradigm and improved 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. This plenary will bring together practitioners and complexity experts to explore applications of complexity science in inclusive market and financial services development. The plenary will explore ideas that support the construction and application of systemic approaches to M&E, the principles that should underpin this and how to make it practical for practitioners and policy makers.
Richard Hummelbrunner ÖAR Regionalberatung Austria Richard Hummelbrunner is Senior Associate of ÖAR Regionalberatung Graz, Austria with more than 30 years of professional experience as a consultant / evaluator in the fields of regional and international development. During recent years he has been active in promoting the use of systems thinking in evaluation as a practitioner, trainer and author. He has recently co-‐authored a new book: “Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioners Toolkit”. He has lectured at Universities and provided training on systems concepts, as well as evaluation, to
private organizations and public authorities in several European countries. He has been a regular presenter and session facilitator at the Conferences of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and is a member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and an active contributor to its Topical Interest Group, Systems in Evaluation.
Dr. Elizabeth Dunn Impact LLC Dr. Elizabeth Dunn has over 20 years of experience designing evaluations and leading research on low-‐income households and factors affecting their participation in market systems. She has worked on projects related to micro-‐ and small enterprise development, smallholder agriculture, inclusive value chain development and microfinance. As a thought leader in the evaluation of inclusive market systems, Elizabeth uses concepts
from complex adaptive systems (CAS) and social network analysis to create an analytical framework for evaluating the evidence from inclusive value chain development projects and improving understanding of the factors affecting smallholder participation, value creation and
value capture in regional and global market systems. Elizabeth was a major contributor to USAID’s work on value chain development under the AMAP project. She provided technical leadership for a wide variety of evaluations, including a longitudinal, mixed-‐method evaluation of the effectiveness of USAID’s GMED project in India. For the World Bank, she led a five-‐year impact evaluation of 3,300 micro-‐ and small enterprises across nine financial institutions under the Local Initiatives Project II in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was Technical Director for core impact assessments under USAID’s AIMS project, providing leadership to longitudinal evaluations in Peru, India, and Zambia. Dr. Dunn’s leadership in evaluation is widely recognized, as evidenced by invitations to serve on expert panels from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO), National Science Foundation (NSF), Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program (USAID). She received USDA’s National Exemplary Evaluation Award in 2004. Elizabeth has worked with, amongst others, USAID, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Inter-‐American Development Bank, Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, DFID, KfW, ACDI/VOCA, DAI, IRIS, AED, ACCION International, Women’s World Banking, Microfinance Opportunities, Monsanto, CARE and SEEP. Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin and has field experience in more than 20 countries.
Dr. Shamim Bodhanya University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa Dr. Bodhanya is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-‐Natal, South Africa and Nyenrode University in the Netherlands. He is a trained and practising engineer, worked in the corporate sector for nearly 14 years, serving in a variety of functional, professional and managerial
capacities before joining academia. Dr. Bodhanya was a founding member of Equilibria Consulting, and serves as a Director of the Institute for Natural Resources. He is based at the Leadership Centre and draws on inter-‐disciplinary research to work with complex real world problems. He is now actively involved in research, programme development, module development, lecturing, facilitation and consulting. He has engaged in facilitation in a variety of contexts both for small groups and large groups. Some of these include: strategy, business planning, conflict, union, training, skills development, youth workshops and simulations amongst others. His work in complexity theory has been applied in the public and private sector, NGOs and civil society contexts, e.g. sugar cane production and supply, local economic development, automotive, rural health, and rural development.
Dr. Shawn Cunningham (Moderator) MesoPartner South Africa Dr. Shawn Cunningham, an active member of SEEP’s Market Facilitation Initiative (MAFI), is a development consultant focused on ways to improve the performance and competitiveness of the private sector in developing countries, by combining a bottom-‐up perspective with systemic policy advocacy. He develops practical
diagnostic instruments by integrating insights from process facilitation, change management and understanding how societies evolve and develop. His qualifications are mainly in business
management, entrepreneurship and change management, while his PhD thesis investigated the role of market failures affecting transactions in knowledge intensive business services. He has published books on several topics related to economic development. Dr. Cunningham started his career as an entrepreneur, but soon became involved in the promotion of entrepreneurship and economic development. He works as a consultant, facilitator and moderator on topics related to economic development and private sector development in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is currently working on several assignments ranging from the fostering of closer collaboration between industries and science and technology institutions in the Southern African region; and training officials and experts on practical development methods in more than 20 countries. His main academic research and consulting practice is around the topic of upgrading and modernizing economic sectors by means of stimulating sectoral and regional innovation systems. He is a partner in the international consultancy Mesopartner (registered in Germany), whose practical development instruments are used in more than 70 countries around the world. He holds several board and advisory positions and directorships in businesses and developmental institutions in Southern Africa and internationally. He is also known to provide his time and expertise to a variety of public or social causes. He is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Vaal University of Technology and a Research Associate at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at Tshwane University of Technology.
Dave Snowden (Video address) Cognitive Edge Snowden was Director of the IBM Institute of Knowledge Management for Europe Middle East and Africa and subsequently founded their Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity. He is currently the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, a research network that focuses on the development of the theory and practice of sense-‐making. One of the founders of 'Organic Knowledge Management', he is an acknowledged expert on the management of tacit knowledge and
has developed a series of pioneering methods including the use of anthropological techniques for knowledge disclosure through the ASHEN model, the use of stories as an advanced form of knowledge repository (based on six years of research into story telling cultures around the world) and the Cynefin "Just in Time" model of knowledge transfer between formal and informal communities. He regularly consults at board level on Knowledge Strategy with some of the Worlds largest companies as well as to Government and NGOs. Snowden is an editor-‐in-‐chief of the journal, Emergence: Complexity and Organisation. Snowden has expertise in the further development of Story Techniques into advanced decision support, merger and acquisition and multi-‐cultural communication, and using Complexity Theory to link concepts from Learning and Knowledge Management. He has authored many articles on the subject and contributed commissioned chapters to two forthcoming books. Dave Snowden has an MBA from Middlesex University and a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University. He is honorary fellow in knowledge management at the Universities of Surrey and Warwick and teaches on the MBA programmes at Warwick, Sophia Antipolis and Piacenza.