Reference eligibility: eligible — Institutional or method-author operating guidance documents this procedure; no tool-seller customer-success claim is admitted.
leadership/strategy / comm-22
Outcome Harvesting for strategic learning
Evaluators work backwards from observed changes to investigate plausible program contributions.
documented-procedure · conventional-workflow · Source account, not a validated implementation
What goes in
- Documents
- Reported changes
- Informant accounts
What comes out
- Substantiated outcome descriptions
- Evidence-based answers
Documented sequence
Order described in the source account; not a sequence between pattern families.
- Agree intended uses and questions
- Review documents and draft outcome descriptions
- Engage knowledgeable informants to correct and extend descriptions
- Independently substantiate selected outcomes
- Classify and interpret the evidence
- Discuss use with intended users
Checks described
- Observable changes
- Independent knowledgeable sources
- Open questions beyond planned outcomes
What changes with context
- Participatory and context-adapted method; contribution is investigated rather than assumed
- Emergent and unintended outcomes are included
- Sampling varies with the harvest
Shared patterns · provisional interpretation
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Assemble grounded evidence
Distributed source material → traceable retrieval, synthesis, or a decision-ready evidence packet
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Reconcile claims and records
Claim or record plus reference evidence → checked agreement, discrepancies, and a substantiated correction or certification
Fit: mapped. Exploratory analyst coding of collected source summaries; not independently tested
Could this transfer?
Hypothetical: an ecosystem partnership team could investigate unexpected changes in partner behavior and assess its own plausible contribution.
Limit: This is not experimental causal identification; competing explanations must remain visible.
Evidence limits and unknowns
Summary through context_constraints paraphrase source-backed mechanics. structural_motifs, candidate_midlevel_pattern, transfer_example_explicitly_hypothetical and transfer_limit are analyst interpretations, not tested findings.
- Application-specific sampling
- Strength of causal inference in a particular harvest
Source eligibility and effectiveness
Allowed use: process reference with explicit limits . Source eligibility is not proof of effectiveness, safety or transferability.
Review attribution: AI-assisted source review · 2026-10-18T03:26:44.526806+00:00.
- Eligibility, where granted, permits a process reference only; it is not proof of usefulness, causal effectiveness, safety, or transferability.
- No workflow software executed, no video playback independently observed, and no outcomes independently measured by this audit.
- Application-specific sampling
- Strength of causal inference in a particular harvest
- This is not experimental causal identification; competing explanations must remain visible.
Source and dates
Outcome harvesting ↗ · Method-developer-contributed evaluation guide
- Published
- Unknown
- Updated
- Unknown
- Checked (UTC)
- 2026-10-18T03:01:00Z
Direct original-page opens returned an internal retrieval error in this pass; search returned original-page text but no page publication/update label. Dates 2012 and 2013 describe a cited external guide, not this page. Date remains unavailable.
unavailable retrieval limited · Date evidence ↗
Try a bounded adaptation
This generated starter is untested. It is not the source author’s prompt or a reviewed Commons skill.