Reflections on a Decade of Evaluation of Micro-finance and Livelihood Projects from a Gender and Equity Lens

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjani Kamala Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Gender Perspective

This article reflects on 10 years of experience in evaluating micro-finance and livelihood development projects from a gender perspective. It suggests a framework for gendered evaluation design and offers tools that have been useful in that type of evaluation. The article also reflects on gender tensions in the evaluation process and suggests the need to place issues of justice at the centre of evaluation design, tools and process.

scholarly journals EX-POST EVALUATION DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE ROMANIAN YOUTH STRATEGY 2015-2020. AN ANALYSIS OF THE NGO SECTOR IMPACT ON THE RESULTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia – Simina DĂNILĂ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Post Evaluation ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
The Social ◽  
Design Proposal ◽  
Youth Issue

Success or a lesson to learn? In this paper, I propose an evaluation design of the Romanian Youth Strategy 2015-2020 transformative effects, in which I argue for a participative evaluation process, promoting diversity, social justice, fairness and transparency. My focus is not only on the instruments for analyzing the objectives, results, resources and impact, but also on encouraging the development of the social values that are attached to this policy. The innovative elements of the suggested design are the introduction of the gender perspective and multiple discrimination and also the reflection on the influence of the NGO sector on the achieved results. It is expected this study to engage the evaluators and the readers interested in the youth issue in a debate for improving the process of assessing public policies and programmes.

scholarly journals Rutas y trayectos en la participación ambiental con enfoque de género. Propuesta metodológica para la investigación participativa con enfoque de género en el ordenamiento y manejo de cuencas hidrográficas

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Nancy Motta Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Methodology Development ◽  
Full Implementation ◽  
Indigenous Groups

Resumen: En este trabajo se plantean los pasosmetodológicos necesarios para realizar cualquier proyectode investigación participativa con perspectiva degénero en el manejo de cuencas hidrográficas, especialmentecuando intervienen diversas comunidadesétnicas en el país, tales como afrodescendientes, indígenasresidentes en resguardos y parcialidades, campesinosmestizos, y comunidades urbanas, cuyos territoriosestén atravesados por cuencas hidrográficas. Seconstruye una estrategia metodológica que aborda todaslas etapas y fases de este tipo de proyecto, desde la construcciónde marcos conceptuales, pasando por la motivaciónpara la participación de las comunidades, hastael desarrollo del proyecto en cuestión en su totalidad.Palabras clave: investigación participativa, metodología,proyectos de desarrollo, cuencas hidrográficas,indígenas, afrodescendientes, perspectiva de género.Abstract: This paper considers the necessarymethodological steps to carry out nay project of participatoryresearch with a gender perspective in the administrationof water basins, especially when differentethnic communities intervene, such as African Colombians,indigenous groups, peasants and urban communitieswhose territories include water basins. A methodologicalstrategy is built taking into account all thedifferent stages of this type of project, from the constructionof conceptual frameworks, to the motivation ofcommunities to participate, to the full implementation ofthe project in question.Key words: participatory research, methodology,development projects, water basins, Indians, AfricanColombian, gender perspective.

Usability Inspection of the ECONOF System's User Interface Visualisation Component

2003 ◽  
pp. 177-197
Author(s):  
Nadir Belkhiter ◽  
Marie-Michele Boulet ◽  
Sami Baffoun ◽  
Clermont Dupuis
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Support System ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Development Life Cycle ◽  
Computer Professionals ◽  
User Interface Evaluation

This chapter is a report on the findings of a user interface evaluation process performed on a decision support system named ECONOF. The issue of properly evaluating the visualization component of a system’s user interface is first addressed. Then, the usefulness of the results obtained is shown through the illustration of the improvements made to the ECONOF visualization component. As the user interface evaluation step in most software design and development projects is more often than not neglected, when not totally bypassed, computer professionals need to be more aware of the importance of the user interface design step within any kind of development life cycle.

The 'presence' of evaluation theory and practice in educational and social development: toward an inclusive approach

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Evaluation Theory ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
The Voice

This paper outlines a vision of evaluation and its place in social and educational policy and practice. It focuses on the 'presence' of evaluation in theory, organizational learning and internationalization and the 'voice' of participants in the evaluation process drawing on a range of examples of evaluation practice. It argues for an 'inclusive' evaluation stance from a moral/political standpoint and from the standpoint of sound evaluation design. It offers evaluation as a way of promoting and depicting the effects of social policy on its recipients and concludes by suggesting the way evaluations can promote 'provisional stabilities' for those experiencing rapid and complex change.

scholarly journals Developing, Implementing and Critiquing an Evaluation Framework to Assess the Extent to Which a Child’s Right to be Heard is Embedded at an Organisational Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Kennan ◽  
Bernadine Brady ◽  
Cormac Forkan ◽  
Edel Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
Process Indicators ◽  
The Government ◽  
Organisational Level

AbstractThe national Child and Family Agency in Ireland, in 2015, undertook an ambitious three-year programme of work to embed a child’s right to be heard in its culture and operations. In parallel to its implementation, the authors of this paper were tasked with evaluating to what extent this intended outcome, that a child’s right to be heard was embedded in the government agency’s culture and operations, was achieved. The overarching evaluation design was a mixed methods baseline and follow up study. This paper reports on the development and implementation of the evaluation framework guiding the study. The framework comprised seven structural and process indicators adapted from the Council of Europe Child Participation Assessment Tool and five outcome indicators informed by the Lundy Model of participation. As well as reporting on the evaluation process, the paper critiques the value of the framework, its benefits, challenges and the pitfalls along the way to inform future evaluations.

scholarly journals Definition of Socio-Economic Impacts of Large-Scale Development Projects within Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022091
Author(s):  
Svatopluk Pelčák ◽  
Jana Korytárová
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Incremental Capacity

Abstract The article focuses on the socio-economic impacts of large-scale urban development projects in cities. Both in Czech cities and large cities around the world, there is increasing pressure on converting previously unused areas (“greenfields”) as well as the areas that no longer serve their original purpose and are inefficiently used (“brownfields”) to new use purposes. As a result, public administration representatives face a difficult decision on how to change the use of these areas to be consistent with the current zoning plan. The resulting decision has to be explained to the public in such a way that they feel they meet the public needs and interests. Decision-makers need valid and accurate inputs to make the right decisions. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly define and describe the procedure for assessing the benefits of these important revitalization or regeneration projects for various segments of the public. Only a small part of the urban development project impacts is of a purely financial character. Therefore, the evaluation process uses modelling of socio-economic impacts, which are evaluated financially, so that the decision-makers are able to compare the most valid impacts to the initial investment costs necessary for converting the territory into the area with new functional use. The research sample consists of important urban development projects in the largest cities in the Czech Republic. Most of these projects consist have a territorial study, which was established as the main source of relevant information for the analyses. The outputs of the research described in the article build on the previous research of the authors, where they defined 3 basic variables - Incremental capacity of jobs, Incremental capacity of the population and Incremental capacity of visitors as the carriers of following project socio-economic impacts on the territory. The research article presents a list of socio-economic impacts defined on the basis of incremental capacities.

72 Evaluation of digital images of bovine embryos

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
J. Gibbons ◽  
L. Wisnieski ◽  
P. Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Embryo Transfer ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Interrater Agreement ◽  
Bovine Embryo ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Bovine Embryos ◽  
Training Tool ◽  
Stage 4

Bovine embryo transfer is an assisted reproductive technology that enables cattle producers to reach their reproductive, genetic, and financial goals. Proper evaluation of embryo quality and developmental stage is key to the success of the embryo transfer industry and is often acquired “on the job” as there are few embryo evaluation training opportunities. The goals of this project were to develop a bank of digital images of invivo-produced bovine embryos, and to evaluate interrater reliability and variation of grade and stage scores and the assessment of the integrity of the zona pellucida (ZP) using an online platform. Frozen/thawed bovine embryos (Day 7) were placed in a commercially available holding medium, and images were captured using a high-resolution camera (112× magnification). Survey participants (n=89) responded to questions on demographic and embryo evaluation experience and assigned grades and stages and evaluated the integrity of the ZP in 58 embryo images (the IETS embryo evaluation rubric was provided). The variation among raters within and between demographic categories was analysed using the “kappaetc” package with weights for ordinal variables (grade and stage) in Stata version 14.2 (StataCorp). The Kruskal–Wallis test was used to assess whether variation [measured as interquartile range (IQR)] in grade and stage ratings within individual were significantly different (P=0.05) by demographic factors. Overall, interrater reliability (measured by Cohen’s Kappa, κ) for stage was moderate (κ=0.57), whereas identification of grade and the ZP was substantial (κ=0.69 and 0.73, respectively). Interrater reliability for grade was significantly lower among those with ≤2 years (n=17) of experience (κ=0.44) compared with those having 3–9 years (n=29; κ=0.57) and ≥10 years (n=43; κ=0.64). Similarly, interrater agreement for stage was significantly lower for those with ≤2 years of experience (κ=0.58) compared with those having 3–9 years (κ=0.68) and ≥10 years (κ=0.75). Interrater agreement for stage was higher for those who did not use the IETS rubric compared with those who did (κ=0.73 vs. κ=0.63, respectively), and the variability was highest for Stage 6 and lowest for Stage 4 embryos. No demographic variables were significantly associated with interrater reliability for the integrity of the ZP. The variability of stage ratings (IQR) within individual significantly increased with more years of experience, with greatest IQR among those with ≥10 years of experience. The IQR within individual for grade decreased with increasing length of time rating, with the lowest IQR for the longest duration spent on rating the embryos. Overall, there was a moderate to substantial interrater agreement in embryo evaluation, which increased with experience. Further, evaluation of bovine embryo digital images may be a useful training tool instead of or in conjunction with a “hands-on” experience. Future surveys will involve multiple images of the same embryo and video to enhance the evaluation process and increase interrater reliability.

Developing an Effective Framework for the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Evaluation Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste R. Helling ◽  
Jamila Minga
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Expressive Communication ◽  
Communication Evaluation ◽  
Communication Needs

A comprehensive augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation is critical to providing a viable means of expressive communication for nonverbal people with complex communication needs. Although a number of diagnostic tools are available to assist AAC practitioners with the assessment process, there is a need to tailor the evaluation process to the specific communication needs of the AAC user. The purpose of this paper is to provide a basis for developing an effective and clinically driven framework for approaching a user-tailored AAC evaluation process.

AAC Decision-Making and Mobile Technology: Points to Ponder

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Abbott ◽  
Debby McBride
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Ipod Touch ◽  
Feature Match

The purpose of this article is to outline a decision-making process and highlight which portions of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation process deserve special attention when deciding which features are required for a communication system in order to provide optimal benefit for the user. The clinician then will be able to use a feature-match approach as part of the decision-making process to determine whether mobile technology or a dedicated device is the best choice for communication. The term mobile technology will be used to describe off-the-shelf, commercially available, tablet-style devices like an iPhone®, iPod Touch®, iPad®, and Android® or Windows® tablet.

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