In 2021, the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association facilitated an evaluation hackathon that engaged diverse stakeholders in co-creation processes to develop practical solutions to address complex problems facing the monitoring and evaluation sector. The event catalysed broad-based ownership and enabled the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association to coordinate the creative energy, commitment and resources of its members, government and other partners to achieve outcomes that would not be possible to achieve otherwise. The article analyses the co-creation approach adopted for the hackathon across four phases, namely initiation, process design/planning, co-design and development and application/follow-up. A retrospective analysis of the process and results identified eight key elements that enabled or impeded the successful completion of hackathon outputs and their conversion into useful products. These elements are facilitative leadership, purposive stakeholder selection, a well-delimited task, preparation, process facilitation, a valued product, voluntary contributions and further capacity. The lessons learnt provide useful insight for future efforts to generate localised, contextualised responses to evaluation problems.

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利用共同创造应对监测和评估挑战：南非评估黑客马拉松的经验

2021年，南非监测和评估协会举办了一场评估黑客马拉松，让不同的利益相关者参与共同创造过程，制定切实可行的解决方案，以解决监测和评估部门面临的复杂问题。该活动促进了基础广泛的主人翁意识，使南非监测与评估协会能够协调其成员、政府和其他合作伙伴的创造力、承诺和资源，以取得其他方式无法实现的成果。本文分析了黑客马拉松采用的共创方法，分为四个阶段，即启动、流程设计/规划、协同设计和开发以及应用/后续。对过程和结果的回顾性分析确定了促进或阻碍黑客马拉松成果成功完成及其转化为有用产品的八个关键要素。这些要素包括促进性领导、有目的的利益相关者选择、明确界定的任务、准备、流程促进、有价值的产品、自愿贡献和进一步的能力。吸取的经验教训为今后针对评价问题制定本地化、情境化的应对措施提供了有用的见解。