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Capacity Building: A Phenomenological Study of the African Women Perceptions and Experiences in Leadership Development Training
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| Jane Wakahiu, Marywood University, jwakahiu@m.marywood.edu
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The promotion of leadership skills among women leaders in developing nations is essential in order for change and progress to occur in these countries. This phenomenological evaluative study examines the perceptions of nine women in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana who were engaged in a three-year Hilton Foundation-supported, Sisters Leadership Development Initiative (SLDI) program. Using impact assessment strategies to assess the transformation in these women and their ministries, this study describes how, by subsequently practicing acquired leadership skills, these women brought about change in their educational, healthcare, social and pastoral ministries. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and observations of the changes in the participants and their ministries. The findings indicate that leadership development training enhanced their capacity for effective service delivery and allowed for the expansion of their ministries, thus improving life for their people. The study illustrates how the design of a leadership program can permeate relevant leadership skills to confirm the creation of innovative practice for the effective organizational management in the developing nations. The study provides insight pertinent to increasing quality leadership skills among leaders responding to complex global organizational challenges.
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Process Evaluation Methodologies for Estimating the Chances of Program Failure
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| Phillip Decker, University of Houston, Clear Lake, decker@uhcl.edu
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| Roger Durand, Durand Research and Marketing Associates, LLC, durand4321@gmail.com
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In this paper/presentation we seek to increase the likelihood of successfully implementing programs by proposing simple, cost-effective process evaluation methodologies for estimating the chances of program failure. The process evaluation methodologies we propose, methodologies that include 'voice of the crowd' and 'future search,' have been adopted widely in decision making situations ranging from strategic planning to the mutual learning and acquisition of values. But despite their affinity to empowerment, collaborative and participatory evaluation, these methods have not been widely utilized either in formative or process assessments. We demonstrate the application and value of these methodologies through a case study of a hospital's ambulatory care program.
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A Participatory Approach to Improving Outcome Monitoring: The Development of a Multi-site Outcome Monitoring system for HIV-prevention Interventions
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| Jason Forney, Michigan State University, forneyja@msu.edu
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| Giannina Fehler-Cabral, Michigan State University, gcabral79@gmail.com
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Organizations implementing HIV-prevention interventions are often required by funders to collect outcome monitoring (OM) data for accountability purposes. However, OM can feel like an imposed practice where grantees with limited evaluation capacity have minimal ownership of the evaluation. This paper discusses how an OM system used by 9 grantee organizations, implementing 7 HIV-prevention programs, was improved using a participatory collaborative approach (Patton, 2002). To increase the validity and utility of OM, we worked collaboratively with grantees and program monitors to create new survey tools reflecting the evaluation goals unique to each organization, conducted capacity building trainings around data collection and data management, created a web-based data entry system allowing grantees to enter their own data and generate real-time reports, and facilitated meetings where organizations shared results and identified ways to improve their interventions. Lessons learned and qualitative findings describing the effectiveness of participatory strategies to improve OM will be presented.
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Intervention Fidelity vs Creative Adaptation: Evaluating a Participatory Method for Market Development
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| Graham Thiele, International Potato Center, g.thiele@cgiar.org
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| Douglas Horton, Independent Consultant, d.horton@mac.com
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| Emma Rotondo, PREVAL, emma.rotondo@preval.org
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| Rodrigo Paz, Institute for Social and Economic Studies, rodrigopaz@supernet.com
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| Guy Hareau, International Potato Center, g.hareau@cgiar.org
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The Andean Change Alliance worked from 2006-2010 to test and evaluate a range of participatory R&D methods including the 'Participatory Market Chain Approach' (PMCA) in four countries in the Andes. The PMCA aspires to improve small farmer livelihoods by involving them in innovation processes with other market chain actors (Horton et. al, 2011). The 'Participatory Impact Pathways Approach' (Douthwaite et. al., 2007) was used to frame the evaluation. Applications were designed as replications of a single intervention, using a protocol so that generalizations could be made across cases. Trade-offs in evaluation design were needed to gain local collaboration and allow space for actors to adapt the protocol to varying local conditions and priorities. This paper evaluates the theory of change underlying PMCA, examines the fidelity of the PMCA implementation process with respect to the protocol, assesses the contribution to pro-poor innovation and draws lessons for future use and evaluation of participatory methods.
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