Monitoring & Evaluation to deepen learning: how monitoring and evaluation approaches can advance Sustainability Governance
Online | 8 November | 13:00 - 15:30 CET
During Tallinn’s year as the European Green Capital 2023, we are committed to developing and promoting new forms of sustainability governance together with peers. As part of this work, we are hosting online peer learning sessions on topics relevant to further developing our sustainability governance framework and processes.
One key component of how we will govern cities of the 21st century is how we conceptualise, design, and utilise monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approaches to support systems change and a city’s collective problem-solving capabilities.
This online peer learning workshop session will introduce participants to concepts surrounding why and how M&E approaches can be designed to increase the long-term learning capabilities of cities, share practical reflections from cities that are beginning to adopt these alternative M&E approaches and explore how you might begin experimenting with these ideas in your own M&E practice. This session will introduce participants to new concepts surrounding ‘learning-oriented M&E approaches’ and practically explore how these new ways of thinking can be tested on the ground.
Conventional M&E approaches are intended to measure linear changes over time and help determine accountability for whether progress is being achieved. For the forms of transformative city-wide change trying to be achieved through Sustainability Governance, require city governments to utilise new models to understand their past actions analytically so that they can be improved and radically accelerate future activities.
The workshop will be facilitated by Ryan Bellinson, Senior Research Fellow in Cities, Climate and Innovation at University College London and Principal at Collaboraction Insights. The session will draw on his previous research on “Mission Metrics” – an innovation approach for using M&E to enable long-term learning to accelerate action, applied to the case of Greater Manchester, UK (read this policy brief for further background).
If this looks like an interesting topic for your city to dive into, please register for the session below!