Senior Technical Advisor, Catholic Relief Services
Baltimore, MD
Joined October 2011
- Tweets41
- Following253
- Followers82
- Likes36
The VINES project, a five-year (2021-2025), $13 million USDA FFPr project implemented by CRS, TechnoServe (TNS), Frontier Co-op, Purdue University, and the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI) to make Uganda the world's next leading supplier of high-quali…lnkd.in/eJ7vbAfN
Doing my PhD at ISS was eye opening and life changing. Always greatful for this unique opportunity. lnkd.in/ee6W3kzJ
Good explanation on what makes the #SenseMaker method different, challenging our obsession with “attribution” instead of “contribution”, and our confussion with “causation” vis-vis “correlation” lnkd.in/et-R8x-R
Interesting background talk by Dave Snowden on the origins of #SenseMaker and its importance to help us put theory in practice, and to builf theory from practice, which is fundamental for dealing with #complexity. lnkd.in/efCxeKyj
Veronica Gottret retweeted
Training facilitators for the resilience study in the communities of Zacapa, Guatemala... innovating during the field work to make SenseMaker more accesible. Heart touching experiences and highly useful insights from people´s perspective... @mgottret
Veronica Gottret retweeted
A framework is a way of thinking about a problem that provides clarity and improves decision making.
The most powerful frameworks I’ve found:
I feel motivated today as our 8 years of hard work at Catholic Relief Services to give more voice to project participants in #development practice is started to be showcased externally and appreciated. I am also grateful for taking this steep #learning j…lnkd.in/eHRYT_Up
Other very interesting reports and podcasts you can find in the #SenseMaKer website include an evaluation of a #refugeeprotection and #refugeeintegration project in Ecuador #refugees, and a #resilience assessment conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In the SenseMaker page crs.org/our-work-overseas/re… on @CatholicRelief website you can access the reports for five studies conducted using SenseMaker. Check these two reports with podcasts. Ethiopia Community Conversations Assessment #behaviorchange, Niger Gender Analysis #gender
In the SenseMaker page crs.org/our-work-overseas/re… on @CatholicRelief website you can access the reports for five studies conducted using SenseMaker. Check these two reports with podcasts. Ethiopia Community Conversations Assessment #behaviorchange, Niger Gender Analysis #gender
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Don't miss the just launched page in the @CatholicRelief website crs.org/our-work-overseas/re… on SenseMaker #sensemaking where you can found not only the newly published guidance practicalactionpublishing.co… but different reports from CRS experience, podcasts, videos and more.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Also, don't miss the report and podcast of an evaluation of #Coffee producer organizations #competencies and #Governance for #pricerisk management.
Other very interesting reports and podcasts you can find in the #SenseMaKer website include an evaluation of a #refugeeprotection and #refugeeintegration project in Ecuador #refugees, and a #resilience assessment conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The just launched page practicalactionpublishing.co… in the @CatholicRelief website has great resources to train facilitators #datacollection for ensuring the collection of relevant and quality data.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Don’t miss this blog written by @TheCynefinCo on @CRS_Expertise @CatholicRelief extensive expertise in using SenseMaker to listen project participants and partners for #collaboration #learning and #adaptation It also highlights #innovation with @RitaMuckenhirn for #datacollection
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Grateful for the very special peers who co-authored this book with me @guijti @annahanchar @RitaMuckenhirn @SteffDeprez and to the best of the editors @solveig_bang
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
I am joyful for the publication of my book with @guijti @RitaMuckenhirn @SteffDeprez and Anna Hanchar. It shares 8 years of @CatholicRelief hard work to give a voice to those with less voice in development practice, using SenseMaker @TheCynefinCo
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Big thanks also to all the co-authors. This was a collective effort that also had very important and substantial contributions of Rita Muckenhirn , Anna Hanchar, @stefdeprez and me (@mgottret). This was written based on extensive field experience in many…lnkd.in/dAXE46Gy