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This is Silvia Andrea Perez again.

I have used social network analysis and I think that it is very useful for post-impact evaluation and even for doing the baseline. 

To give you some examples: it is useful to track the groups of actors participating in a process or project, to map their linkages (or missing linkages), how they exchange resources (for instance, information) and the direction of exchanges; the redundancy of linkages (power issues involved, types of leadership?), the flow (or not flow at all) of resources, etc. It can be useful to identify the diversity and types of interactions among stakeholders, the frequency of interactions, the density of the network, structural holes, etc.

And I see many other possibilities to map different indicators, and even to track them over time. I have used it in combination with netchain analysis, to track what I have defined as mobile hubs of innovation networks. This is a methodological contribution of my research. You can see the general description of this methodology in a poster I prepared entitled "Tracking the social organisation of innovation: Tracking Mobile Hubs of innovation networks tackling societal challenges" (link given in Message 57). 

Social network analysis also has possibilities of doing quantitative analysis, so I would recommend it as a tool for impact evaluation. 

Silvia Andrea Perez Perdomo 
Hollandseweg 1
Building 201
Office number 5057
P.O. Box 8130
Wageningen University
6700 EW Wageningen, 
The Netherlands
http://wu.academia.edu/SilviaAndreaPérezPerdomo 
e-mail: silvia.perezperdomo (at) wur.nl

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