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From Being Formally Non-Existent to Becoming Officially Registered: What is the Impact on the Poor?
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| Ahmed Dewidar, Validity for Research, Evaluation and Quality Assurance, adewidar@gmail.com
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130,000 of the poorest Egyptians, who were not officially registered, were supported by a poverty alleviation project to have access to official identification documents. Accordingly, they had access to basic economic and social services. An impact beneficiary assessment was conducted in 2010 to assess the effect of 'getting registered' on their social and economic statuses. An evaluation framework was established with evaluation questions, indicators, parties involved, and data collection procedures. Five tools were created to collect data from a sample of 1,200 beneficiaries and 70 Non-beneficiaries. The findings describe the impact on the beneficiaries' sense of security, sense of citizenship, awareness of their rights as citizens, socio-economic statuses and their attitudes toward their country. In addition, an analysis was conducted for the reasons for the 'non registration phenomenon' and the needs of the poor for better quality of life. Lessons learned for similar evaluation studies are shared.
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The Role of Evaluation and Stakeholder Values in California's Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project Evaluations
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| Charlie Ferguson, San Jose State University, charlie.ferguson@sjsu.edu
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Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Projects are being used by the U S Department of Health and Human Services as a means of 'generating new knowledge about innovative and effective child welfare practices' (Children's Bureau, 2010) through the evaluation of those projects. This mission has sometimes conflicted with the goals of state and local stakeholders to use federal fiscal flexibility to develop and implement services for children. This paper discusses the sociopolitical contexts of two Demonstration Projects in California and the role of values in the evaluation planning and implementation dynamic. The first evaluation was a randomized trial of discrete interventions at multiple county sites while the second uses a time-series design to assess the impact of a capped allocation fiscal strategy in two counties. The paper will provide recommendations based on the lessons learned. [Children's Bureau. (2010). Summary of the Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstrations. Retrieved from http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/cwwaiver/2010/summary_demo2010.htm]
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Complications when Evaluating Disadvantaged Populations: A Needs Assessment of the Knoxville Family Justice Center
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| Ann Cisney-Booth, University of Tennessee, acisneybooth@utk.edu
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| Amy Dilworth, Knoxville Family Justice Center, adilworth@fjcknoxville.org
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In this paper the evaluator discusses the complexity of evaluating programs that serve disadvantaged populations, specifically victims of domestic violence. According to Riger and colleagues (2002), there have been significant improvements in the social, legislative, and political arenas to help those who have experienced domestic violence. To continue this progression it is important that evaluators poignantly examine how evaluations of domestic violence programs are conducted. This paper explores the planning phase of such an evaluation, barriers with obtaining Institutional Review Board approval, and data collection methods. Emphasis will be placed on keeping the victims who participate in the evaluation safe. The purpose of the presentation is to provide other evaluators with strategies to combat the complexities involved with evaluating such programs. Evidence from the needs assessment of the Knoxville Family Justice Center will be provided to help illustrate the challenges with working with an at risk population.
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