Case study

Using Outcome Harvesting to assess unintended consequences of market systems programmes

Published by
BEAM Exchange, LEO, MarketShare Associates, ACDI/VOCA

Outcome Harvesting is a utilisation-focused evaluation tool that scans the environment for the intended or unintended consequences of an intervention. In 2016, MarketShare Associates, through the LEO and BEAM Exchange projects, worked with the Alliances Lesser Caucuses Programme (ALCP) to apply Outcome Harvesting to identify and analyse unintended outcomes arising at least partially from ALCP’s efforts to facilitate improvements in the Georgian dairy industry. The trial also evaluated the Outcome Harvesting approach as a technique for understanding systemic change related to market systems programmes.