The Girl Research Unit - Rwanda's expert SenseMakers®
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 17, 2014 1:57:06 PM
The other week I was out in Kigali, Rwanda again - looking at the frameworks and practicalities around the upcoming three-year programme working with young girls across the country. SenseMaker® will be a big part of the evaluation and we'll be exploring how to use it for continuous mo …
One umbrella, many projects
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 31, 2014 5:40:42 PM
On Wednesday, I spoke with various government colleagues about potential applications of SenseMaker. Slides are here:
Connecting with citizens - the United Nations Development Programme and SenseMaker
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 28, 2014 4:25:46 PM
A short blog today - there's a longer one that's half-written about how we might build a framework for common central monitoring of multiple local projects, but that needs a little more teasing out and work to make it mroe practical.
Design of Understanding 2014
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 27, 2014 11:26:50 AM
Last Friday was the 2014 Design of Understanding day - a packed room at St Brides Library off Fleet Street, organised by the redoubtable Max Gadney of After the flood. He and I had come across each other in a hotel bar in Kigali, Rwanda when we were both working the GirlHub Rwanda off …
Overstating the end-state, Obscuring the objective
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 22, 2014 5:58:31 PM
I came across a glorious Churchill quote recently while reading Billy Bragg's The Progressive Patriot. It wasn't one I had heard before, but it sums up beautifully something that challenges many of the people I talk to - how to set direction and objectives for large numbers of people, …
Closing 2013 and opening up 2014
by Tony Quinlan on Dec 18, 2013 12:29:53 PM
Yesterday’s workshop in Antrim was excellent - the level of debate around patient narratives was great to be part of. And the focus shifted as the day went on, from the “how to analyse” to the element that I find most challenging (and hence interesting) - “what do we do as a result”.
Learning SenseMaker
by Tony Quinlan on Dec 16, 2013 5:02:34 PM
I’m in Antrim, Northern Ireland tomorrow, working with a bunch of smart people who are using SenseMaker to understand patients’ experience of healthcare across the region - it’s called the 10,000 Voices project.
Here, There and Everywhere - SenseMaker in Eurasia
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 31, 2013 12:37:18 PM
There's a new post up today from Mihail Peleah at the UNDP's Voices in Eurasia blog:
Rwanda re-visited - visuals of conference pieces
by Tony Quinlan on Aug 24, 2013 6:36:15 PM
I've just been reminded of the great visuals from my recent talks at the Girl Learning Summit in Rwanda. A fabulous event, run by the Girl Effect University team from the Nike Foundation.
Patterns of voices from the Balkans - working with UNDP
by Tony Quinlan on Jun 12, 2013 2:58:20 PM
The past two days have been intense and productive - spend in Bratislava on a raft of narrative projects being run by UNDP, coordinated by a client and friend who is an extraordinarily capable project manager. (Praise I don't give lightly - the ability to switch from detail to strateg …