Elaine Mahon has worked in IDEA since 2013 in a variety of roles focussing on strengthening capacity of IDEA members. Elaine’s strengths lie in the areas of knowledge and understanding of Development Education practice, strengthening quality in educational work, monitoring results and organisational management. Elaine facilitated the development and roll-out of the Code of Good Practice for Development Education, which was led by IDEA members and leads on its implementation in IDEA.
Improving Your Results Framework Workshop
Date: Tuesday 19 November, 10am - 12pm,
Location: Online via Zoom
This workshop is part of IDEA’s support on the Irish Aid Global Citizenship Education Grants Round. It is the second of two distinct and complementary workshops developed by IDEA on ‘Results Frameworks for Global Citizenship Education’ that we are running this year. This session will be led by Elaine Mahon, IDEA and Lisa-Marie Salley-Kerhascoet of Organisational Development Support - ODS.
This session is focused on supporting those who are familiar with Results Frameworks and have begun work on the Results Framework for their application. This runs on Tuesday 19 November, 10am - 12pm, online via Zoom.
Participants are invited to prepare for 'Improving Your Results Frameworks’ session as follows:
a) Those participants from organisations who have previously submitted a Results Framework for Development Education/Global Citizenship Education to Irish Aid should be familiar with their existing Results Framework. Before the event they will be asked to share (with the trainer and IDEA) an outcome and associated indicators that is working well and also identify an outcome and associated indicators that posed some challenges.
b) Those participants from organisations who have NOT previously submitted a Results Framework for Development Education/Global Citizenship Education to Irish Aid and/or people who are new to Results Frameworks should first view the session called ‘Results Frameworks for Beginners’, led by Susan Gallwey and Elaine Mahon, before attending the Workshop. The video is available here.
IDEA provides support for members - and spaces for members to support one another - in applying for Irish Aid Global Citizenship Education Grants. This training and support is free of charge to all and offered online. As in recent years, this year we also invite any other actors who are not yet members of IDEA to these training events.
Register below!
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Biographies
Lisa-Marie specialises in qualitative research, participatory feminist approaches to monitoring & evaluation including in supporting clients to develop monitoring evaluation & learning practices including frameworks, log frames and a variety of data collection an d analysis tools. She has extensive experience working with NGOs, institutions and donors across thematic fields including human rights, conservation, social justice and development globally. As a consultant, she has worked on MEL projects related to programmes and organisations funded by a variety donors including Irish Aid, SIDA, Finnish MFA, USAID, European Commission, the Dutch MFA and others. Previous clients include Front Line Defenders (MEL System), Peace & Security Funders Group, ILGA Europe, EndFGM EU and FADA Rwanda (Kaleidoscope Trust). Lisa Marie leads on complex and multi-level evaluations with strong expertise in project management and research design. She has conducted baseline studies for She Leads/Plan International and Kvinna till Kvinna at the global, regional and country level. She currently leads on the learning partnership with Porticus Latin America in addition to leading other evaluations with Fingo, Women4Biodiversity, WWF, TUDCN, ProtectDefenders.eu, EPIM, Count Me In! And Front Line Defenders among many others.
Lisa-Marie also works for the European Commission as an Ethics Expert specialising in ethically assessing research projects involving humans with a focus on informed consent processes, data security, research environment and avoidance of harm.
Last week, IDEA hosted the second webinar from our 2025 series, ‘Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education, ' focusing on Palestine. If you missed out, you can watch the full video below!
At the end of March, IDEA staff and representatives from three IDEA members travelled to Riga, Latvia, for a two-day event marking the launch of IDEA’s Erasmus+ project with our partner LAPAS (Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation) focused on the IDEA Code of Good Practice The project’s core objective is to enhance the quality of global citizenship education (GCE) at local , national and European levels. Central to this work is the creation of a Code of Good Practice for Latvia based on learning from the IDEA Code that will support Latvian GCE practitioners, including teachers, NGOs, youth workers and others, by fostering a common understanding and approach to GCE. This represents the first piloting of the IDEA Code in an international context. The new IDEA task group for the project, made up of Code members, alongside IDEA staff, are supporting LAPAS members to adapt the Code for the Latvian national context by sharing our own experiences and learnings from the Code and GCE in Ireland. The event in Riga was the first in-person gathering of the project, bringing together LAPAS and IDEA members. This face-to-face interaction allowed us to begin the process of knowledge exchange, and mutual learning which will spread the Code’s reach and strengthen our GCE practice. IDEA was represented in Riga by Dean Oke (CDYS (Cloyne Diocesan Youth Service), Georgina Eastaugh (Concern Worldwide) and Claire Glavey (Global Village), alongside IDEA staff Elaine and Aine.
06 May 10.30am – 4.30pm
IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row
