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Systematically Paying Attention to the Minority and Women: Experience from Evaluating a Stabilization Program in Kosovo
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| Tristi Nichols,
Manitou Inc,
tnichols@manitouinc.com
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This paper presentation describes how to consider issues specifically germane to women and the disenfranchised/disadvantaged in an impact assessment in Kosovo – an emotionally, ethnically, and politically charged context. I cover how to systematically include the gender and ethnicity variable(s) throughout key stages of the evaluation process the evaluation framework formulation, survey design and administration, data entry and analysis, and results. I also review the challenges faced when undertaking this systematic exercise, including the influences of my own subjectivity.
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Quality Review through a Feminist Lens - Participation, Perspectives, Power, and Policy
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| Sharon Brisolara,
Evaluation Solutions,
evaluationsolutions@hughes.net
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| Saumitra SenGupta,
APS Healthcare Inc,
ssengupta@apshealthcare.com
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Quality reviews of managed care programs often integrate qualitative data from various stakeholders into evaluation efforts in an effort to create policy recommendations. While mixed-method designs are common, the way in which divergent perspectives are presented or reconciled is often dictated by various rules, regulations and contract requirements. Structural hierarchies and power dynamics can complicate the attempt to represent multiple perspectives gathered through a mixed method design in a way that appropriately informs practice management, quality of care, access to services, cultural competence, consumer empowerment, fiscal policies, and management. This paper explores the intersection of the theory behind this kind of approach to quality review with its practice, focusing on the case of external quality review of managed mental health plans in California. In addition, the paper explores the benefits of applying different theoretical lens, such as Feminist Evaluation, as approaches to understanding such quality reviews and resultant policy creation.
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Evaluability Assessment and Empowerment Evaluation Techniques in Program Level Logic Model Development
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| Patricia K Freitag,
Academy for Educational Development,
patfreitag@comcast.net
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Evaluability assessment techniques included interviews of principal investigators that revealed underlying and implicit theories of action. Empowerment evaluation techniques provided qualitative input to further the development of a program level logic model for the NSF-Gender Research in Science and Engineering Program.
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