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Context Matters: Longitudinal and Comparative Analysis of Monitoring Data on Organizational Strengthening Generated With the Agriterra Profiling Tool
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| Giel Ton, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, giel.ton@wur.nl
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The organizational performance of 58 farmers' organizations across 30 countries was measured with quantitative indicators largely derived from panels that assessed organizational capabilities. The paper analyses the usefulness of the data for two information needs of the commissioning donor organization: 1) longitudinal assessment of capacity building; and 2) comparative analysis to discover room for cross-organizational learning. The longitudinal analysis of the data points to a bias related with the evaluation context. Data collected by panels that differed in time highlight other strengths and weaknesses than those derived from scores of panels that assessed both actual and past performance at the same evaluation moment. The comparative analysis indicates that panel scores are correlated with the organizations' geographical location, type of service provisioning and level of aggregation. Differences in panel scores seem to reflect context specific functions and not necessarily differences in organizational performance.
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Evaluation and Survey Design in Developmental Contexts
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| Marc Shapiro, Millennium Challenge Corporation, shapiromd@mcc.gov
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Since the Paris Declaration, many donors have pledged to improve use of monitoring and evaluation of their programs. The contexts for these evaluations and the use of surveys in international projects differ in several respects from those in most developed contexts and often lag in quality, but underlying rationales for good evaluations remain the same. These differences affect how evaluations should be designed to measure outcomes and impacts of these types of interventions as well as affecting procedures to conduct the evaluations. This presentation is intended to spark discussion of learnings across countries, sectors, and donors. It uses the sectors of education, knowledge management, and information technology for development as examples but more broadly focuses on key differences that affect the design and implementation of surveys specifically and evaluations more generally.
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Evaluation Practice in Developing Countries: The Case of 'Protection and Justice for Children Project 'in Ethiopia
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| Simon Molla Gelaye, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, simonmolla@yahoo.com
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Background
"Protection and Justice for Children Project" is a development project funded by UNICEF and implemented by Federal Supreme Court, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Ministry of Information, Human Rights Commission and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Looking through the evaluation process in the project, this paper intends to gloom light on evaluation experience in developing countries.
Objectives
The objectives of the study are:
-To analyze the methodologies the implementing partners adopted to monitor end evaluate the project and the problem solving techniques they use;
-To look at the major achievements of the project;
-To assess if and how the political context shapes the methods of evaluation;
-To find out challenges met in the monitoring and evaluation process.
Methodology
-Desktop review of all the relevant secondary resources;
-In-depth interview with key informants /decision makers at various levels in the implementing partners;
-Participant observation
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Contexts for Evaluating Media Work on Women and Agriculture: A Multi-sited Project in Africa
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| Patty Hill, EnCompass LLC, phill@encompassworld.com
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| Jiames Stansbury, EnCompass LLC, jstansbury@encompassworld.com
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Varying contexts matter for the evaluation efforts we can bring to bear on projects, as well as for the implementation of project work itself. This presentation focuses on an evaluation of a media project aimed at enhancing coverage of agriculture and women in rural development in three African countries: an arid Francophone country, an equatorial nation notable for its productivity and high agricultural engagement, and a southern African country challenged with expanding its economy away from mining. The paper will explore how the evaluation addresses an implementation model that is consistent across sites, while capturing the variations in national and local contexts related to news and feature content, the sources and angles journalists engage, and the overall ways in which the project proceeds. It will also explore the wider context of the challenges of the global economic downturn and spreading food crises.
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