Outcome Harvesting Community Blogs

Awuor Ponge and Barbara Klugman coordinate the blogs for the Outcome Harvesting Community.

Our blogs feature a range of voices and perspectives to inspire and support OH practice and its development. Each post expresses the views and opinions of the author and and are not necessarily in line with the Outcome Harvesting principles.

Awuor Ponge

Dr. Ponge, is a Senior Associate Fellow, in-charge of Research, Policy and Evaluation at the African Policy Centre (APC). He is the immediate former Vice-President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree in Gender and Development Studies. Ponge is an Adjunct Faculty at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Kenya, where he teaches Development and Policy Studies. He has extensive international experience in program planning, monitoring and evaluation, using innovative emerging participatory methodologies and approaches including Outcome Harvesting and Most Significant Change (MSC) among others. He was awarded the International Organisation for Collaboration in Evaluation (IOCE) and EvalPartners Award in 2015 for his contribution to Evaluation in Africa and Mentoring Young and Emerging Evaluators.  

Barbara Klugman

Barbara Klugman was an anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who moved in the early ‘90s into movement-building to influence women’s health policies in South Africa and internationally, and then worked as a funder in this space. Her PhD is an analysis of how civil society can influence policy. She is a visiting professor at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Since 2010 she has worked as a freelance strategy and evaluation practitioner focusing specifically on supporting global and national social movements and networks, non-profits and social change funders through conducting external evaluation and learning processes and / or strengthening their approaches, systems and tools for monitoring, evaluation and learning. Her practice is shaped by her commitment to social justice and to feminist and decolonial principles and practice.