Three out of Four Practical Lessons about right fitting MEL for Additive Effects

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Three out of Four Practical Lessons about right fitting MEL for Additive Effects
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This is a series about Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning (MEL) whether sets of interventions/portfolios are adding more together than each one would produce on their own. In post 1, I pointed to coherence, the new OECD-DAC evaluation criteria as a way to bridge the ambition of bringing bigger change with the MEL world. In post 2, I shared 3 of 4 practical lessons I’ve learned in experimenting with MEL systems and exercises that focus explicitly on interactions of interventions/portfolios. In the third post, I bring Paul Pierson’s groundbreaking argument for social science to MEL. Paraphrasing, most contemporary MEL takes a “snapshot” view of interventions and portfolios, distorting their effects and meaning by ripping them from their temporal context. Instead, we should place in time interventions/portfolios with the ambition to add more than the sum of the part by constructing MEL systems looking at “moving pictures” rather than taking snapshots.
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01/08/2023, 10:15
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10/08/2023, 09:00
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Guerzovich, F. (2023, August 1). Three out of Four Practical Lessons about right fitting MEL for Additive Effects. Medium. https://medium.com/@florcig/three-out-of-four-practical-lessons-about-right-fitting-mel-for-additive-effects-2e31de67fc71