Creative approach to presenting MSC

[Agnes Marsan]

Hello,

I am working on designing a Most Significant Change process to be used as the main methodology for a meta evaluation.

The idea is to do a final evaluation of a programme that acted as an umberella for various projects in different countries and throughout almost 10 years.

So we chose MSC to help us bring everybody involved together, find common denominators and surface most significant changes.

We would like to ensure our final products (both the stories and the analysis) don't end up looking like long and boring reports.

Would some of you have examples of creative/interactive approaches for restituting the stories, the selection process and the analysis ?

Thank you,

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Agnès Marsan
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agnes....@gmail.com

[rick davies]

Great challenging question...

And interesting application of MSC

regards, rick

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[Fiona Kotvojs]

Hi Ange,

 

From my experience, the key is keep it short! The long, boring MSC reports are the ones where the client insists on publishing every story collected. The good ones just have the MSC (this has been at most 3) and what the panel extracted as findings across all the stories they read. Determine who is your audience, what do they want to know and how is the best way to communicate this to them. Then base your reporting on this. The best way will therefore be different in each case.

Some reports are done as video and distributed this way (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo6OySFvlLA&index=1&list=PLBZ4JGXTT0s_F-tFOfYFGq8yCtiTFsJ3q). Some are done as short brochures (example attached on the subject I think would have been the most boring subject possible – and I think this was the most widely read report on that activity).

 

Remember, MSC is one tool in an evaluation. For triangulation, a good evaluation would also include other methods. As a minimum, also analyse the data you collect on other changes – this is a great source of data for both qualitative and quantitative analysis. It gives you the ‘typical’ rather than the extreme case (as MSC does) (learning is best from extreme cases which is a great strength of MSC). I use https://www.mostsignificantchange.com/ to support me do this (especially managing the data and the quantitative analysis of all my MSC data).

 

Hope this helps

 

Fiona

 

 

Dr Fiona Kotvojs GAICD
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Kurrajong Hill Pty Ltd

 fi...@kurrajonghill.com.au
Phone: 0448 453 422

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[Soledad Muñiz]

Hi Agnes,

Here you have how InsightShare combines Participatory Video and Most Significant Change, including doing participatory analysis so results get instantly used by all stakeholders: https://insightshare.org/resources/participatory-video-and-the-most-significant-change/

Feel free to reach out after you checked the toolkit if you need any clarifications.

Sole

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[Agnes Marsan]

Thank you Rick, Fiona and Soledad for your feedback and valuable insights!

I will let you know what comes out of it!

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