Outcome Harvesting: A Developmental Evaluation Inquiry Framework Supporting the Development of an International Social Change Network

This chapter features a developmental evaluation of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), using outcome harvesting as an inquiry framework; coauthor Paul Kosterink continues to steward the use of the findings. Preventing armed conflict is, on the face of it, a dauntingly complex endeavor. This example demonstrates that the initiatives of a dynamic global network enmeshed in real-world complexities at all levels can be evaluated and thereby be accountable for concrete, verifiable, and significant results. This is breakthrough work. Read on.