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Using co-creation to address monitoring and evaluation challenges: The experience of South Africa’s evaluation hackathon 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
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231223174
Eleanor Hazell, Ian Goldman, B. Rabie, Jen Norins, T. Chirau, Taruna Gupta
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.
2021 年,南非监测与评价协会促成了一次评价黑客马拉松活动,让不同的利益攸关方 参与共同创造过程,以制定切实可行的解决方案,解决监测与评价部门面临的复杂问题。该活动促进了基础广泛的自主权,使南非监测与评价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,以取得其他方式不可能取得的成果。文章分析了黑客马拉松在四个阶段采用的共同创造方法,即启动、流程设计/规划、共同设计和开发以及应用/跟进。通过对过程和结果的回顾分析,确定了促成或阻碍黑客马拉松成功完成产出并将其转化为有用产品的八个关键要素。这些要素是:促进性领导、有目的的利益相关者选择、明确限定的任务、准备、过程促进、有价值的产品、自愿贡献和进一步的能力。这些经验教训为今后针对评估问题采取因地制宜的对策提供了有益的启示。
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What role should we play to be effective evaluators? – practitioner reflections 要成为有效的评估者,我们应该扮演什么角色?- 实践者的思考
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231220032
Callum Donaldson-Murdoch, Rebecca Adler, Dui Jasinghe
There is still widespread debate about the role that an evaluator could, should or even must play. Evaluations are often complex and require a broad array of interlinked roles and areas of expertise, making it difficult to generate a singular definition of an evaluator. Furthermore, an evaluator may be expected to change their responsibilities and actions throughout the stages of an evaluation, changing the role they play. As practitioners, we believe there is value in contributing to this discussion, providing our perspectives based on personal experience and data collected during the 2022 European Evaluation Society conference. In this article we seek to describe six evaluator traits which we believe to be the most influential to the roles which we play, and six evaluator roles which best illustrate the impact of changing these traits.
关于评估人员可以、应该、甚至必须发挥什么作用,仍然存在着广泛的争论。评估工作往往是复杂的,需要一系列相互关联的角色和专业领域,因此很难对评估人 员下一个单一的定义。此外,在评估的各个阶段,评估人员的职责和行动可能会发生变化,从而改变他 们所扮演的角色。作为实践者,我们认为有必要对这一讨论做出贡献,根据个人经验和在 2022 年欧洲评估协会会议期间收集的数据,提出我们的观点。在这篇文章中,我们试图描述我们认为对我们所扮演的角色影响最大的六种评价者特质,以及最能说明改变这些特质所产生的影响的六种评价者角色。
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Evaluating site selection at design in food systems interventions: A formative geospatial approach 评估粮食系统干预措施的设计选址:形成性地理空间方法
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231218275
Gabriel Sidman, Carlo Carugi
Within international development, formative evaluation is becoming increasingly important to make rapid assessments of project design and support adaptive learning in early implementation of ongoing interventions. Such evaluation is critical for institutions with short funding cycles, which need early evidence to assess the utility of new initiatives to inform donors’ decision-making for upcoming funding cycles. However, obtaining quantitative evidence is difficult in formative evaluation as results are not yet available or visible early in the project cycle. Geospatial multi-criteria suitability analysis provides one method for evaluating the relevance of program and project design through creating a quantitative spatial index, combining data on several spatial indicators to evaluate project site selection and help inform future priority geographies. This study demonstrates the use of such a geospatial analysis in the formative evaluation of the Global Environment Facility’s food systems integrated programs.
在国际发展领域,形成性评价对于快速评估项目设计和支持在早期实施正在进行的 干预活动中进行适应性学习越来越重要。这种评估对于资助周期短的机构来说至关重要,因为这些机构需要早期证据来评估新举措的效用,以便为捐助方在下一个资助周期的决策提供信息。然而,由于在项目周期的早期还无法获得或看到结果,因此在形成性评估中很难获得定量证据。地理空间多标准适宜性分析为评估计划和项目设计的相关性提供了一种方法,它通过创建定量空间指数,结合多个空间指标数据来评估项目选址,并帮助为未来的优先地域提供信息。本研究展示了这种地理空间分析在全球环境基金粮食系统综合项目形成性评估中的应用。
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Principles and methods to advance value for money 提高资金效益的原则和方法
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231221526
J. Gargani, Julian King
Value for money poses the question, “What is good resource use?” It is often answered with a narrow economic analysis that does not adequately address what diverse people value. We suggest new principles and methods that may help evaluators answer the question better. First, we define value for money, which sits at the intersection of evaluation and economics. Next, we make the case for a holistic assessment of value for money that evaluators can conduct with tools they already have, like rubrics. We introduce three principles that further align value for money with evaluation: value depends on the credibility of estimates; things do not have value, people place value on things; and people value the same things differently. Together, they suggest evaluators should arrive at multiple, possibly conflicting conclusions that represent diverse value perspectives. We demonstrate how this may be done using a value-for-money rubric to improve resource allocation for impact.
资金效益提出了一个问题:"什么是良好的资源利用?在回答这个问题时,往往采用狭隘的经济分析方法,而没有充分考虑到不同人群的价值取向。我们提出了一些新的原则和方法,可以帮助评估人员更好地回答这个问题。首先,我们定义了资金效益,它是评估与经济学的交叉点。接下来,我们提出了对资金价值进行整体评估的理由,评估人员可以利用他们已有的工具(如评分标准)进行评估。我们提出了三项原则,进一步将资金效益与评估结合起来:价值取决于估算的可信度;事物没有价值,人们对事物赋予价值;人们对相同事物赋予不同的价值。这些原则共同表明,评估人员应得出代表不同价值观点的多重、可能相互冲突的结论。我们展示了如何利用资金价值标准来实现这一点,以改善资源分配,产生更大的影响。
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What works in democracy support? How to fill evidence and usability gaps through evaluation 什么在民主支持中有效?如何通过评估填补证据和可用性方面的空白
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231218276
Julia Leininger, Armin von Schiller
The evidence generated and used in development cooperation has changed remarkably over the last decades. When it comes to the field of democracy support, these developments have been less significant. Routinised, evidence-based programming is far from a reality here. Compared to other fields, the goals of the interventions and assumed theories of change remain underspecified. Under these circumstances, evaluating and learning is difficult, and as a result, evidence gaps remain large and the translation of evidence into action often unsuccessful. This is particularly dramatic at a time when this field is regaining attention amid global autocratisation trends. In this article, we analyse the specific barriers and challenges democracy support faces to generate and use evidence. Furthermore, we identify evidence gaps and propose impact-oriented accompanying research as an evaluation approach that can make a significant contribution towards advancing the evidence agenda in this field.
过去几十年来,发展合作中产生和使用的证据发生了显著变化。而在民主支持领域,这些发展却不那么显著。常规化的、以证据为基础的计划还远未成为现实。与其他领域相比,干预的目标和假定的变革理论仍然不够明确。在这种情况下,评估和学习是困难的,因此,证据差距仍然很大,将证据转化为行动往往不成功。当这一领域在全球专制化趋势中重新受到关注时,这种情况尤为突出。在本文中,我们分析了民主支持在生成和使用证据方面面临的具体障碍和挑战。此外,我们还指出了证据方面的差距,并提出以影响为导向的伴随研究作为一种评估方法,可为推进该领域的证据议程做出重大贡献。
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Navigating the boundaries between evaluators and similar applied professionals 划清评估员与类似应用专业人员之间的界限
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231213643
Dana Jayne Linnell, Bianca Montrosse‐Moorhead
This article is part of a larger project to examine who calls themselves an evaluator and why, as well as how evaluators differ from non-evaluators. For the present article, 40 professionals doing applied work (e.g. evaluators, researchers) participated in an hour-long semi-structured interview, which involved questions about their journey into the field, applied practice, and professional identity. Research questions were: what does the journey into the field look like for evaluators and similar professionals, and how do they describe the similarities and differences between evaluators and other similar professionals? Results showed evaluators and non-evaluators have unique journeys into the field. Furthermore, evaluators and other similar professionals describe the similarities and differences similarly, yet there are also some misconceptions similar professionals have regarding evaluators and evaluation. This article contributes to the larger conversation on the professionalization of evaluation by helping understand the jurisdictional boundaries between evaluation and other related fields.
本文是一个大型项目的一部分,该项目旨在研究谁自称为评估员,为什么,以及评估员 与非评估员有何不同。在本文中,40 名从事应用工作的专业人员(如评估员、研究人员)参加了一个小时的 半结构式访谈,访谈内容涉及他们进入这一领域的历程、应用实践和专业身份。研究问题是:评估员和类似专业人员进入该领域的历程是什么样的,他们如何描述评估员和其他类似专业人员之间的异同?研究结果表明,评估人员和非评估人员进入该领域的历程各不相同。此外,评估员和其他类似专业人员对异同的描述也很相似,但类似专业人员对评估员和评估也存在一些误解。这篇文章有助于理解评价与其他相关领域之间的管辖界限,从而为更广泛的评价专业化对话做出贡献。
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Interorganizational evaluation capacity building in the public, health and community sectors 公共、卫生和社区部门的组织间评估能力建设
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231207115
Charlotte Laubek, Isabelle Bourgeois
Evaluation capacity building is generally conceptualized as occurring either at the individual or the organizational levels. However, ongoing societal crises require organizations within or across sectors to work together to find solutions to complex problems and to evaluate joint initiatives. Interorganizational evaluation capacity is required to ensure the ongoing conduct and use of evaluations to support interorganizational decision-making and improvement. This exploratory study describes and analyzes four cases of interorganizational evaluation capacity building initiatives in the public, health and community sectors in Canada and Denmark to identify their key dimensions. Preliminary findings highlight the importance of developing individual and organizational evaluation capacity as well as the need to provide stakeholders with interorganizational evaluation training and projects in which they can work together to better learn about each other’s organizations and challenges and find solutions to common problems.
评估能力建设一般被认为是发生在个人或组织层面。然而,持续的社会危机要求各部门内部或跨部门的组织共同努力,为复杂的问题找到解决 办法,并对联合行动进行评估。组织间评价能力是确保持续开展和利用评价来支持组织间决策和改进的必要条件。这项探索性研究描述并分析了加拿大和丹麦公共、卫生和社区部门组织间评估能力建设活动的四个案例,以确定其主要方面。初步研究结果强调了发展个人和组织评估能力的重要性,以及为利益相关者提供组织间评估培训和项目的必要性,在这些培训和项目中,利益相关者可以共同合作,更好地了解彼此的组织和挑战,并找到解决共同问题的办法。
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Navigating competing demands in monitoring and evaluation: Five key paradoxes 在监测和评估中应对相互竞争的需求:五个主要矛盾
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231215075
M. Faling, Greetje Schouten, Sietze Vellema
Evaluation in complex programs assembling multiple actors and combining various interventions faces contradictory requirements. In this article, we take a management perspective to show how to recognize and accommodate these contradictory elements as paradoxes. Through reflective practice we identify five paradoxes, each consisting of two contradicting logics: the paradox of purpose—between accountability and learning; the paradox of position—between autonomy and involvement; the paradox of permeability—between openness and closedness; the paradox of method—between rigor and flexibility; and the paradox of acceptance—between credibility and feasibility. We infer the paradoxes from our work in monitoring and evaluation and action research embedded in 2SCALE, a program working on inclusive agribusiness and food security in a complex environment. The intractable nature of paradoxes means they cannot be permanently resolved. Making productive use of paradoxes most likely raises new contradictions, which merit a continuous acknowledging and accommodating for well-functioning monitoring and evaluation systems.
在汇集了多方参与者并结合了各种干预措施的复杂计划中,评估工作面临着相互矛盾的要求。在这篇文章中,我们从管理的角度来说明如何认识和适应这些作为悖论的矛盾因素。通过反思实践,我们发现了五种悖论,每种悖论都由两种相互矛盾的逻辑组成:目的悖论--介于问责与学习之间;立场悖论--介于自主与参与之间;渗透悖论--介于开放与封闭之间;方法悖论--介于严谨与灵活之间;以及接受悖论--介于可信与可行之间。我们从 2SCALE(一个在复杂环境中致力于包容性农业综合企业和粮食安全的计划)中的监测、评估和行动研究工作中推断出这些悖论。悖论的难解性意味着它们不可能永久解决。对悖论的有效利用很可能会引发新的矛盾,这就需要我们不断承认并包容这些矛盾,以确保监测与评估系统的良好运行。
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Realistic evaluation of social inclusion 对社会包容的现实评估
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231210328
Marko Nousiainen, L. Leemann
This study introduces a mixed-method model for the realistic evaluation of programmes promoting the experience of social inclusion of people in disadvantaged positions. It combines qualitative and quantitative methods for exploring the context-mechanism-outcome- configurations of four cases consisting of development projects. Qualitative analyses depict the context-mechanism-outcome-configurations using participants’ interviews and small success stories as data. Quantitative analyses of a longitudinal survey including the Experiences of Social Inclusion Scale examine the context-mechanism-outcome-configurations in a larger group of participants and re-test the qualitative findings. Thus, they help to overcome the positive selection bias of the small success stories. The mixed-method approach is fruitful especially because the qualitative and the quantitative analyses amend each other’s shortcomings. In the promotion of social inclusion, it is important to help people to see themselves as active agents and allow them to connect to larger social domains.
本研究介绍了一种混合方法模式,用于对促进弱势群体融入社会的计划进行现实评估。它结合了定性和定量方法,以探索由发展项目组成的四个案例的背景--机制--结果--配置。定性分析以参与者的访谈和小型成功案例为数据,描述了背景-机制-结果-配置。纵向调查的定量分析包括 "社会包容体验量表"(Experiences of Social Inclusion Scale),在更大的参与者群体中检验环境--机制--结果--配置,并重新检验定性分析的结果。因此,它们有助于克服小型成功案例的正面选择偏差。混合方法富有成果,特别是因为定性分析和定量分析可以弥补彼此的不足。在促进社会包容的过程中,重要的是要帮助人们将自己视为积极的推动者,并允许他们与更大的社会领域建立联系。
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The sceptical turn in evaluation and what to do with it: Keynote presentation delivered by Peter Dahler-Larsen and Estelle Raimondo at the EES conference in Copenhagen, June 10, 2022 评估中的怀疑转向以及如何应对:彼得-达勒-拉森(Peter Dahler-Larsen)和埃斯特尔-雷蒙多(Estelle Raimondo)于 2022 年 6 月 10 日在哥本哈根举行的 EES 会议上发表的主旨演讲
IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1177/13563890231208468
Peter Dahler-Larsen, Estelle Raimondo
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