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Session Title: Accountability, Democracy and Representation in the Global Evaluation Context

Panel Session 303 to be held in International Ballroom C on Thursday, November 8, 9:35 AM to 11:05 AM

Sponsored by the Qualitative Methods TIG

Chair(s):

Leslie payday loan  Goodyear payday loan ,  Education Development Center Inc,  lgoodyear@edc.org

Discussant(s):

Robert payday loan  Stake payday loan ,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  stake@uiuc.edu

Abstract: In this panel discussion, we will present a general analysis that lays out an understanding of accountability, democratic processes and evaluation. Each panelist will then address this framework from his or her own perspective, highlighting questions of evaluator roles and responsibilities, public deliberation, control, accountability structures, representations of programs and people and evaluation's influence on policy. In addition, the panelists will discuss the role qualitative methods can play in evaluations within this framework. The structure for this session is brief presentations followed by panel discussion, including comments from the discussant, and open conversation with the audience.

Accountability Structures and Evaluator Roles Lehn payday loan  Benjamin payday loan ,  George Mason University,  lbenjami@gmu.edu Lehn Benjamin will draw on her research into performance monitoring systems and the concept of risk to address issues of performance measurement frameworks, accountability systems and democratic processes as they relate to domestic governmental and nonprofit programs. She will pose questions regarding the role of evaluators and whether these accountability demands require evaluators to pay attention to new and different issues within evaluation contexts.

Global Accountabilities, the New Public Management and the Millennium Development Goals Saville payday loan  Kushner payday loan ,  University of the West of England,  saville.kushner@uwe.ac.uk Saville Kushner brings an international development perspective to his comments, addressing questions of control, citizen deliberation, rights-based approaches to accountability, and the purposes of evaluation within accountability frameworks. He will also describe his ideas regarding a rights-based approach to accountability.

The Role of Representation in Democratic Accountability and Evaluation Leslie payday loan  Goodyear payday loan ,  Education Development Center Inc,  lgoodyear@edc.org Leslie Goodyear will draw on her work addressing representation in evaluation--how people's lives and experiences are represented in and through evaluations--to highlight the need for forms of representation in evaluation that reflect the complex contexts in which people live and work.