CECAN Webinar – Navigating System Change Evaluation

CECAN Webinar – Navigating System Change Evaluation: reflections on how to know you are making progress in shifting systems

Presenters: Madeline Goldie & Jessica Davies, Social Finance

Webinar Overview:
Social Finance, in partnership with the System Innovation Initiative, spent 12 months between 2022 and 2023 exploring how evaluation works for system change. Motivated by our work in recent years to unpack and explore how system change comes about, we and many others across the social impact space are increasingly asking how to know we are making progress? To start to answer this, we spoke to 50+ system change practitioners, funders and evaluators globally to learn how people are approach the topic, what is working, what isn’t working, and what the implications might be for those funding system change, as well as those leading it.

Building on this research, as well as over a decade’s practical experience working with our partners across a range of sectors on large-scale system change projects, in this webinar, we will share our insights and reflections on:

Why is evaluating system change so hard?
How should evaluation adapt, and what should it not lose?
What does system change evaluation look like in practice?
How might we track progress?