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Deliberative Democratic Evaluation and Expanding the Role of Evaluation in the Policy Process
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| Cindy Roper, Clemson University, cgroper@clemson.edu
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This paper explores deliberative democratic analysis as a way to expand the role of evaluation in the policy process. It examines the relationship between evaluation and policy change, explores mechanisms for effective democratic evaluation and addresses how these mechanisms can be integrated into evaluation design. Using criteria put forth by Ernest House and Kenneth Howe in their paper, 'Deliberative Democratic Evaluation' (2000), it discusses how inclusion, dialogue, and deliberation can allow citizen/stakeholders to contribute to the legitimization of public policy and to participate in decision making in a meaningful way.
References
House, E. R., & Howe, K. R. (2000). Deliberative democratic evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, 2000(85), 3-12.
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Genre Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation System, Science, and Applications
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| Rasha Qudisat, Ministry of Social Development of Jordan, rashaqudisat@gmail.com
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Until the end of 2008, Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) had no official unit for M&E of MoSD entitled with. However, for the last two years MoSD have done tremendous work to enhance its technical and institutional capacity to further improve M&E efficiency, considering and focusing the gender aspect in terms of policies, programs and creating decision support systems. Institutionalization gender based M&E system in a wide outreach government institution like MoSD is a substantial enterprise that largely necessitates organizational, managerial, and cultural alterations within the structure of the ministry, illustrating the need to identify and create communication of the vision, and clearness of purpose of M&E system, are important elements at the outset, and all need to be on participatory approach for the ownership of the M&E system, which leads to adaptation, application, consequently use maximum benefit from the system.
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I am an Activist: The Obligation of the Evaluator to Take Sides in a Contest of Valuing
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| Terence Beney, Feedback Research & Analytics, tbeney@feedbackra.co.za
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This paper argues that the evaluator is ethically compelled, by virtue of adopting the discourse of scientific objectivity, and within a context defined as 'development', to represent the interests of intended beneficiaries. This position is substantiated by an illustrative analysis of an end of programme evaluation of a child labor intervention in Southern Africa. Appropriately critical findings precipitated a contest over the content of the text by competing interests personified in the donor, the programme implementer, the Botswana government and the evaluator. Ever-present was the marginalized voice of the intended beneficiaries of the programme, namely the Naro speaking San of the Gantsi District. The paper describes the competing discourses that emerged and how they influenced the final version of the text. The lessons learned for preserving the objective case in the interests of the intended beneficiaries are documented.
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