Bernward Causemann
Working Languages
German
English
Mission Statement
Through innovative approaches empowering people to create a more peaceful, just and sustainable future for themselves and for others.
Regional Expertise
Germany, East Africa, Southern Africa, Balkans, Eastern Europe, South Asia, South-East Asia, Central Asia
Core competencies
- Familiar with bilateral, multilateral, non-governmental and ecumenical development cooperation
- Evaluation – especially learning evaluation, assisted self-evaluation and cross-sectoral studies
- Training, facilitation of conferences, seminars and workshops
- Organisational assessment, strategic planning and facilitation of organisational change processes
- Advocacy, international networks and North-South relations
- Impact assessments and results based monitoring in complex contexts
- Grassroots-based impact assessment tools
Publications
- »How do they do it?« Civil Society Monitoring Self-effectiveness. An NGO-IDEAs Documentation of Field Experience (2011, lead author) www.ngo-ideas.net/field_experiences
- NGO-IDEAs Impact Toolbox: Participatory Monitoring of Outcome and Impact (2011, co-author, also French, Spanish) www.ngo-ideas.net/impact_toolbox
- Monitoring Self-Effectiveness – A Manual to Strengthen Outcome and Impact Oriented Project Management (2011, co-author, also French, Spanish) www.ngo-ideas.net/monitoring_self_effectiveness
- »Tiny Tools«: Measuring Change in Communities and Groups (2012, lead author, also French, Spanish) www.ngo-ideas.net/publications
- Community groups monitoring impact with participatory statistics in India: reflections from an international NGO collective, in Jeremy Holland (ed.), Who Counts? The Power of Participatory Statistics (2013, co-author) http://developmentbookshop.com/whocounts
- Tools for measuring change: Self-assessment by communities, in PLA 66 (2013, lead author) http://pubs.iied.org/G03665.html
- Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse, DeGEval (2010, co-editor, author of articles „Impact Monitoring and Assessment“ and “Tracer Studies”, in German) http://www.degeval.de/arbeitskreise/entwicklungspolitik/veroeffentlichu…
- Evaluierung des Förderbereichs Ländliche Entwicklung MisereorSynthesebericht, (2012, in German) www.misereor.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Misereor_Bericht_FBEvaluierung_LE_2…
- Report “Rural Development Sector Evaluation” for Misereor, (2012, also French, Spanish) http://www.misereor.org/en/cooperation-and-service/evaluation.html
- Systemische Ansätze in der Evaluation. DeGEval (2013, co-editor) http://www.degeval.de/arbeitskreise/entwicklungspolitik/veroeffentlichu…
- Unwritten Reports, pp 179-192, in: Eyben, Rosalind et al (ed), The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development. Playing the game to change the rules? Rugby: Practical Action Publishing, 2015
- Evaluation Tourism Watch, EED, Bonn 2012, http://www.tourism-watch.de/files/eed_evaluation_tourism_watch_2012_-_f…
- Überprüfung einer Theorie des Wandels mit systemischen Ansätzen – Evaluation eines Förderbereichs, Presentation at DeGEval on 7 April 2017. ((Link:)) http://www.degeval.de/arbeitskreise/kultur-und-kulturpolitik/aktuelles/… (in German).
- Evaluierung von Politikbeeinflussung durch zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen. Eine Querschnittsanalyse, Presentation at DeGEval on 5 June 2014. ((Link): http://www.degeval.de/arbeitskreise/entwicklungspolitik/bisherige-aktiv… (in German)