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Rick Davies evaluating the Guardian's Katine project.
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Rick worked on the CATIA project I also worked on when I was at Panos London – always a sharp and trenchant thinker…
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EVALUATION SMACKDOWN!
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[This paper was originally presented for the CEEISA/ISA conference, Central European University Budapest, Hungary, 28th June 2003]
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Focused on small business development, but interesting nonetheless.
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Document that pulls together lots of approaches to evaluation.
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From the GKP…
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Interesting paper on how to measure empowerment, from Bangladesh:
The movement supports local groups of disempowered people to assert their rights to land, water and other resources. It explicitly aims to support empowerment and political engagement. Their system for managing and reporting performance included the following steps:
* Work with local communities to define what 'success' would mean for them. This generated 8,000 statements.
* Next, the statements were grouped into four categories: political, social, economic & capacity.
* Each category was split into three performance levels: awareness, confidence, effectiveness. There were detailed indicators within each level.
* Every year, groups facilitate each other to reflect on their work, and rate themselves according to the indicators.
* The ratings can be quantified and analysed.
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Example of how to use and fill in a logical framework – quite handy step by step page.
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BOND has some excellent resources on evaluation and quality – start here.
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£25 for this book: "Campaigners are often passionate and action-orientated, and frequently under-resourced. For many, assessment, monitoring and evaluation may seem like an unaffordable or an unwelcome mechanism of control. But simple and effective monitoring and evaluation can, if implemented well, become a powerful tool for social and political change."
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"we are treating all the processes of government as if they were tasks for engineers rather than a complex problem of co-evolution at multiple levels (individuals, the community, the environment etc.)"
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"Evolving storylines is a participatory method of developing multiple alternative views of the future, or interpretations of the past, in the form of branching stories. This paper explains how the method works, then spells out some possible uses of the method. It starts at fairly theoretical level, but ends up more practically focused."
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"Based on a review of the literature, and preliminary and detailed case studies, ODI has identified over 30 theoretical models describing how research-based evidence can influence policy. The first four are cross-cutting models or frameworks, while the remainder are loosely grouped into three categories guided by ODI’s three-dimensional framework: context, evidence and links. Click here for a summary or on the links below for more information about each theory."
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"The RAPID programme has been researching the interface between research and policy for several years, and running workshops, seminars and courses for a diverse range of stakeholders (see the events page). This page provides links to a wide range of information resources, case studies, frameworks and tools that have been developed by the programme itself and by other organisations working in this area."
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ODI's explanation of IDRC's outcome mapping tool.
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IDRC's Outcome Mapping methoology
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"This self-instructional mini-course provides concise information on the basics of M&E. It is divided into discrete modules that, in addition to the technical content, include self-assessment quizzes at the start and end of each section, interactive exercises, lists of resources and references for additional information, a glossary of key terms, and a final exam. Participants scoring 80% or higher on the final exam are eligible to download and print a course certificate." Note – this is a pretty health-focused resource
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This is a great great animation, with a weirdly old school and paternalistic vision of who is a catalyst for change – according to this, it's the professional volunteers who go to help our poor benighted locals…
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The scientists offered several possible explanations for why video had such a strong effect on memory. “First, people still view photos and videos as reliable records of the past,” psychology graduate student Robert Nash wrote in an e-mail. “Around 75 percent of the people who participate in our research know something about photo or video editing software, yet many of the people in this study were convinced by our edited footage.”
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Noteworthy post from a thoughtful blog on aid workers.
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"MEASURE Evaluation has developed and applied a variety of tools to improve decision-making in the health sector. Many of these tools have contributed to international standardization of methodologies and strengthened host-country capacity for decision making." This is primarily focused on the health sector, but has applications beyond…
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2001 study from ActionAid looking at rights-based approaches to programming. "This scoping study has attempted to identify and document how various agencies and institutions have approached the assessment of advocacy. The work was limited in scale, and focused in particular upon the approaches of NGOs [non-governmental organisations]. The insights and ideas from this study will contribute to a three-year action research project to be undertaken by ActionAid and partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This research aims to develop appropriate methodologies for assessing the value of advocacy work, methodologies that reinforce a transparent and co-operative way of working, and strengthen external agencies' role in helping to create space for marginal groups to have a voice in decision-making fora."
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Unesco-produced list of media dev indicators, for assessing the health of a media ecology.
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Dr. Asthana undertook a detailed study of 12 examples of youth participation in the media and the process of learning that this entails. These initiatives represent an assortment of media – newspaper and magazine, radio, television and video, the internet, and personal digital assistants – and a range of activities – from learning technical, production, writing, and reporting skills to developing and deconstructing media content. In short, they illustrate a range of ways to foster the "imaginative engagement of children and young people – conversations that ask us to co-participate."
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In addition to helping raise awareness, heal survivors by inviting them to share their stories, prompt dialogue, and encourage action to heal and/or prevent/address SGBV, the authors stress that participatory video:
* strengthens a sense of community;
* is easily incorporated into existing GBV prevention and response activities;
* is accessible to all, regardless of educational level;
* motivates field staff; and
* has wide-ranging applications.
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This report documents the results of an impact assessment of the Multi Media Campaigns (MMCs) carried out as part of Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)'s Environmental Services Program (ESP) in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Indonesia. This impact assessment looked at the qualitative impact of the MMC, exploring:
* Evidence of MMCs improving discourse regarding ESP issues and principles;
* Indication of MMCs inspiring the general public to make demands for better service delivery;
* Verification of MMCs leading government/decision makers to provide improved service delivery – for example, increasing budget allocations to solve problems; and
* How MMCs can improve quality of reporting on water, health, and environmental issues in Indonesia.
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"This photo essay assesses the strategy of using communication for social change (CFSC) to give voice to Palestinian youth, especially young women. Hosted on the Communication for Social Change Consortium (CFSC Consortium) website, the photos and narratives included emerge from the conviction that public and private dialogue is critical to peace in the Middle East. To that end, author Birgitte Jallov examines how 3 organisations in Palestine are addressing issues of democracy and governance by engaging in communication-centred processes through which people identify problems together, make decisions, and develop community-based solutions."
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"The narrative of the sketch and the photograph can become a participatory site for wider storytelling, individual agency and community action." While recognising the value of visuals as an alternative mode of expression and evaluation, the authors also point out that sketches, paintings and photographs are socially and technically constructed. That is, visual frames "by their very nature privilege the photographer's point of view". Thus, they recommend that, "for participatory sketching and photography interventions, participants share their sketches and photos and their narratives with other community members to further gauge the commonality and differences of their meanings and interpretations. These community discussion sites can then also serve as a catalyst for community decisions and action."
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Draft list of nonproit news orgs, under Hauser Center's aegis…
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Modules taught at Hauser repurposed for online environment.
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"The Hauser Center’s The Guide to Nonprofit Courses: Harvard University and Beyond summarizes the range of courses related to the nonprofit sector, or issues addressed by the nonprofit sector, that are being offered in various disciplines across Harvard University’s affiliated schools, in addition to Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)."
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"Crime in South Africa is high and widely believed to restrain investment. Nevertheless, both the mechanisms through which crime constrains growth and the actions that might be taken to loosen its grip are poorly understood. In light of the limited knowledge in the field and the limited capacity of criminal justice institutions, this paper proposes focusing on two issues: (1) the costs of crime to business, especially household-based enterprises in low-income settlements, and (2) the perception of violent crime. In both cases, the paper proposes a cyclical process of iterative innovation in which government seeks to solve narrowly circumscribed crime problems, and then leverages each success to generate wider hope and confidence in the criminal justice system."
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"Citizenship has often been viewed as a residual of something else: get markets right and citizens will participate, or get elections right and citizens will have a voice. This is a narrow view of citizenship. An alternative view is that active citizens build responsive states – and not the other way around. So argued John Gaventa, in a fascinating seminar titled “Seeing Like a Citizen: International Perspectives on Deepening Democracy.” Gaventa is a Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and Chair of Oxfam Great Britain." This research looks really very interesting – very much looking forward to following it.
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Nice themes for wordpress…
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"Inspired by internationally accepted norms and standards inside and outside the United Nations system, the ILO evaluation policy aims to improve and strengthen the practice of independent evaluation in the ILO. It also establishes principles for systematic self-evaluation of programme performance so that together these provide comprehensive coverage of all ILO activities. Evaluation is both a management and organizational learning tool to support constituents and partners in forwarding decent work and social justice."
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"PLURAL + aims to empower young people to speak about what they think of migration and diversity and be heard by others all over the world.
Youth from all over the world (ages 9 to 25) are invited to submit short videos on their thoughts, experiences, opinions, and questions on migration-related themes and on the challenges of ensuring respect and understanding among various communities."
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At the weekly Kapihan sa Manila Hotel forum, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile vowed yesterday to block the passage of the bill.
Susan Ople, president of the Ople Policy Center said the protesters must reach out to other sectors and use every medium available to build a strong coalition against the text tax to stop Congress from passing the bill.
“The No to Text Tax! online campaign has more than a thousand supporters since its creation three days ago,” she said.
Ople urged the public to join the protest and sign up and post their comment on the Facebook wall.
