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20 december 2023 IMKnewsEnhancing Data Storytelling at Oxfam Novib
We recently embarked on an innovative journey to harness the power of data storytelling. A Storytelling with Data Workshop was conducted by the Analytics for a Better World Institute, for the wider group of data, MEAL (Monitoriting, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning), and research colleagues at Oxfam Novib. This workshop, in collaboration with ORTEC, Data for Africa, and CorrelAid, aimed to blend diverse skill sets, from coding novices to seasoned programmers. Participants were introduced to Python-based data analysis and visualisation techniques. The focus was on real-world applications, using data ranging from survey insights to social media analytics.
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20 april 2022 IMKnewsIncreasing reach and engagement on Twitter: Identifying your (co-)influencers by adopting a network analysis
Social media are an integral part of Oxfam’s influencing work. Twitter is one of the many platforms used to gain public support for efforts to influence public and private sector policies. We harvested and analysed all publicly available tweets related to the Peoples Vaccine campaign for the period September 2020-June 2021. Where the analysis shows that Twitter datastreams provide opportunities to complement conventional ways of MEL, this blogpost primarily focuses on usability of Twitter analysis for campaign implementation.
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18 maart 2021 IMKnewsExploring exceptions to child marriage practices in Pakistan
Blog piece presenting the results of Oxfam's study on positive deviance to child marriage in Pakistan, which explored the moments, life experiences, people, and social norms that influenced the decision to delay girls' marriage - and the consequences of doing so.
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15 maart 2021 IMKnewsMaking Gender Visible: three lessons from the Right to Food programme
Short blog presenting lessons on gender integration drawn from the Right to Food programme.
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27 januari 2021 IMKnewsShifting the Power to the South
This article presents the learnings from Oxfam Novib's & Simavi's webinar on Shifting Power to the South (organized on 26 November 2020). This webinar is part of a webinar series on Influencing Networks and relates to the recently published book 'Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks'.
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22 december 2020 IMKnewsLancement du livre 'Tambour Battant: Récits de Réseaux d’Influence'
Au 3 décembre dernier, Oxfam Novib a officiellement lancé le livre ‘Tambour Battant : Récits de réseaux d’influence’. Ce livre examine les efforts de neuf réseaux du monde entier pour influencer des décideurs sur un éventail de sujets, y inclus les droits fonciers, l’abolition des armes nucléaires, les droits des animaux, et la promotion du nombre de femmes dans les forces de police, pour n’en citer que quelques-uns. Le livre parle des expériences pratiques et instructives des réseaux d’influence travaillant au niveau sous-national, national et/ou international.
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27 november 2020 IMKnewsMutual Capacity Strengthening in Influencing Networks
This article presents the learnings from Oxfam Novib's webinar on Mutual Capacity Strengthening in Influencing Networks (organized on 17 November 2020). This webinar is part of a webinar series on Influencing Networks and relates to the recently published book 'Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks'.
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25 november 2020 IMKnewsRaising Voices through Community Mobilization
This article presents the learnings from Oxfam Novib's webinar on Community Mobilization in Influencing Networks (organized on 12 November 2020). This webinar is part of a webinar series on Influencing Networks and relates to the recently published book 'Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks'.
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14 oktober 2020 IMKnewsWebinar Series on Influencing Networks - Registration is open!
Oxfam Novib recently launched the book ‘Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks’. It explores the efforts of nine networks around the world to influence decision makers on a variety of issues. In November 2020 we will host four webinars to deepen discussions on some of the topics from the book. Registrations are open now!
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20 juli 2020 IMKnewsSpeak up! Impact Measurement Shows Changes in Citizens Raising their Voices
The Impact Measurement and Knowledge team worked with colleagues and partners in eight countries to measure the outcomes of supporting citizens to raise their voices.
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13 juli 2020 IMKnewsNEW RELEASE - Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks
On Monday 6 July 2020, in the presence of more than 130 experts and practitioners working with influencing networks, we launched our latest publication called ‘Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks’. This book is a collection of stories about influencing networks working in a variety of thematic fields. It narrates the experiences of nine networks that work on issues such as land rights, the abolition of nuclear arms, animal rights and having more women in the police force, to name but a few. Targeting decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional, and international levels the networks bring us along on their journey, their choices, and their experiences with influencing the powerful to make informed decisions.
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16 juni 2020 IMKnewsDigital Launch Publication on Influencing Networks
Oxfam Novib convened a publication on influencing networks to capture stories and document lessons learned by a wide variety of influencing networks operating all over the world. And now we are ready to launch our publication, share a taste of its content together with representatives from various influencing networks, and we would love for you to be there too!
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3 juni 2020 IMKnewsNew Blog Post: Ready to marry? Exploring the dynamics of Child Marriage in Pakistan
This blog post combines evidence from three recent development programmes in Pakistan – Her Choice, Marriage: No Child’s Play, and Yes I Do – to shed light on why child marriage is so prevalent in Punjab and Sindh, and how to tackle it.
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13 mei 2020 IMKnewsNew blog post on trust and the coronavirus response
How could trust in state and civil society institutions have consequences for the coronavirus response in the world's most vulnerable communities. Read our new blog post to find out!
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11 december 2019 IMKnewsStories on Influencing Networks - Call for Expressions of Interest
Have you worked with influencing networks? Have you booked successes, or managed brilliant failures? Have you faced interesting dilemmas along the way? We would like to learn more about your experiences!
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1 oktober 2019 IMKnewsHow does trust influence citizen action?
Whether or not citizens trust in their government or civil society organisations can affect if and how they engage with them. Read our new paper discussing these issues and providing recommendations.
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7 mei 2019 IMKnewsExpert meeting report: Because I think that others do…
this is a news item about Oxfam Novib’s annual Expert Meeting “Because I think that others do…”, organized on the 18th of March 2019, focused on diagnosing, measuring and tackling social norms on societal issues in development cooperation.
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12 maart 2019 IMKnewsEnabling food producers to earn a living income: how can business do its part?
IMK specialist guest-writes for the Living Income Community of Practice blog about what companies should do to ensure that farmers producing the food we eat earn a living income. Read the full post at https://www.living-income.com/single-post/2019/03/05/Enabling-food-producers-to-earn-a-living-income-how-can-business-do-its-part
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21 februari 2019 IMKnewsResearch and Practice for Dialogue and Dissent
Communiqué seminar 9 January
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18 februari 2019 IMKnewsInvitation to the Expert Meeting on Diagnosing, Measuring and Tackling Social Norms on Societal issues in Development Cooperation
This expert meeting on 18 March in the Hague will introduce successful examples of how social norms can be diagnosed and changes in social norms can be measured to show the impact of interventions focusing (partially) on changing social norms. We will jointly explore how knowledge on social norms can be formative as well as evaluative for programmes and campaigns.
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13 februari 2019 IMKnewsSP- The Power of Knowledge
Oxfam Novib and SOMO have a strategic partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs aiming at increased influence of civil society on policies and practices of governments and companies in the interest of people living in poverty and injustice. The partnership builds on the knowledge of specialists and activists in various parts of the world.
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12 oktober 2018 IMKnewsBlog on intrinsic motivation evaluation for PAPAB
For the ongoing qualitative evaluation of the PAPAB project, we looked at “intrinsic motivation”. How we’ve defined and studied this, is what you will read in this post. We would love to hear your thoughts too.
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17 september 2018 IMKnewsResearch reflection and campaign design; a fruitful combination
The Impact Measurement and Knowledge team is all about understanding social change and about charting the effects that our programmes and campaigns have on people. This blog is about how we, in practice, deliver on our promise to give voice to citizens and realize that their voices are really taken up by our programmes and campaigns.
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5 april 2018 IMKnewsExpert Meeting on Measuring Impact in the Age of the Data Revolution
The data world around us is changing. Massive new sources of data emerge, which offer staggering new possibilities as well as challenges for the practice of impact measurement in the development and humanitarian sectors. During Oxfam Novib’s annual Expert Meeting, organized on the 29th of March 2018, successful examples of how the data revolution can be used in development and humanitarian settings were introduced. The aim of the day was to address how impact measurement can make use of these new data sources.
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15 maart 2018 IMKnewsInvitation to the Expert Meeting on Measuring Impact in the Age of the Data Revolution
This expert meeting on 29 March in the Hague will bring together professionals from a variety of organizations who are working on impact measurement or with innovative flows of data, and who are eager to expand their knowledge on innovative data analysis techniques and usage to feed the way we measure and monitor impact.
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15 februari 2018 IMKnewsUsing Stories to Tell Stories: A Methodological Note on Vignettes
“I will tell you a story of a mother I will call Fatima. Fatima lives in a community like you. […] One day Amina, Fatima’s cousin, comes over to visit Fatima’s family. They both have daughters of 14 years old. Amina announces that her daughter, Zainab, is engaged and getting married in a month’s time. She states that Fatima’s daughter, Noor, should also get married, as she is becoming a woman. Amina reveals she also knows a family from her village who is interested in marrying their son to Noor.”
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10 januari 2018 IMKnewsMeasurement Matters-Analysing Youth Employment and Skills Training
About 200 million people worldwide are unemployed and actively looking for a job. Many of them are young people who are less secure in the labor market as they have less work experience than adults. Youth unemployment is especially a large problem in developing countries, where a large share of the population is young. International organizations try to tackle youth unemployment, among others through providing skills training projects. To get a deeper understanding of how such projects influence youth unemployment, I wrote a paper on the relationship between these two. This blog post will provide the main findings of my paper.
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26 april 2017 IMKnewsExpert Meeting on measuring the effects of influencing
Development actors try to influence people’s attitudes and behaviors through public campaigns. Their lobby and advocacy activities aim at changing policies and practices of governments and companies. As with traditional development interventions, accountability is due for the effects of the influencing work. Yet, measuring these effects is new and challenging. With this background, Oxfam Novib’s Impact Measurement & Knowledge team organized an Expert Meeting on Friday 31 March 2017, to offer insights from unusual disciplines about innovative measurement methods.
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29 september 2016 IMKnewsWomen empowerment and leadership in water resource management in the Mekong region
In the past few months, the Impact Measurement & Knowledge team at Oxfam Novib (formerly known as the World Citizens Panel team) has assisted the Inclusion Project of Oxfam’s Mekong Regional Water Governance Program in carrying out a qualitative research project with the Stories of Change methodology. Part of this process, i.e. the participatory analysis of the collected stories, was described in this earlier blog post. With this short post, we’d like to share the info-graphic that was developed as a joint effort of the Impact Measurement & Knowledge team and the Inclusion Project team. And hot off the press: this info-graphic was just presented at the International River Symposium in New Delhi two weeks ago. A nice interim result of a fruitful collaboration!
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5 juli 2016 IMKnewsResult-oriented reflection: notes on the recent Stories of Change workshop for the Inclusion Project
Last April, the World Citizens Panel team facilitated a Stories of Change reflection workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Stories of Change is a qualitative research method that above all seeks to allow those who apply it – program designers and implementers – to learn how and why a particular change happens. These program designers and implementers carry out the research themselves, from design phase to the data collection and analysis. This increases the likelihood that the research is relevant to and usable in their work. During a reflection workshop – the last phase in the Stories of Change research process – these researchers are first of all triggered to reconsider the change mechanisms underpinning their interventions. Ultimately, the objective of this reflection is that interventions are adapted to achieve change more efficiently & effectively. But how to practically organize this in a 3-day workshop?
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23 juni 2016 IMKnewsWhat decisions would you make?
What would you do? This flowchart was created to allow people to consider what decisions they might make if they were caught in the current conflict in Kachin State, Myanmar. The questions are based on a survey conducted in Myanmar and the outcomes and other responses are available in the Baseline Report. Make those decisions yourself and follow the flowchart…
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26 april 2016 IMKnewsResult oriented reflection: notes on the recent Stories of Change workshop for the Inclusion Project
Oxfam Novib's World Citizens Panel team recently held a workshop to analyse Stories of Change, a qualitative research method which aims to help practitioners understand how a particular change happens. Ruben De Winne, a Qualitative Researcher at Oxfam Novib, talks us through how they organised the workshop and the outcomes the participants walked away with.
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14 oktober 2015 IMKnewsMeasuring impact: a marriage of numbers and stories
At Oxfam we're committed to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning to make sure we are having the most positive impact we can on the lives of people living in poverty. As part of this approach we need to find new and better ways of measuring our impact. Here, Anne Oudes, monitoring evaluation and learning advisor introduces the World Citizens Panel, an impact measurement method developed by Oxfam Novib.
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14 oktober 2015 IMKnewsDesigning programmes which are young at heart
Researchers from Oxfam Novib asked young people in Uganda and Vietnam to share their problems, their hopes and dreams, and analysed the results to draw conclusions about what issues prospective development programmes should focus on. Here Karen Van Zaal and Ruben De Winne explain the methodology used and the significance of this approach for beneficiary led programme design.
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