This series of webinars was first presented at the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, which focused on "connecting, learning, and building a shared understanding of the evaluation and participatory practices that make causal pathways more visible"
Tom Aston
Thomas Aston is a monitoring, evaluation, and learning specialist. He has extensive experience in using theory-based and participatory methods to evaluation across Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He is an Honorary Associate at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and an Editorial Advisory Board member at the Evaluation journal. He holds a PhD in Development Planning.
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- This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023 explores when to use different methods and how to combine them to better understand and visualise causal pathways.
- This CDI Practice Paper, by Tom Aston and Marina Apgar, makes the case for ‘bricolage’ in complexity-aware and qualitative evaluation methods.
- This article explores the challenges of monitoring and evaluating politically informed and adaptive programmes in the international development field. Authors Thomas Aston, Chris Roche, Marta Schaaf & Sue Cant.
- This 2020 paper by Alix Wadeson, Bernardo Monzani and Tom Aston presents and reflects on six evaluations where process tracing was used and identifies some key learnings.