Participatory evaluation is the sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed”

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Rogers ◽  
Nea Harrison ◽  
Therese Puruntatameri ◽  
Alberta Puruntatameri ◽  
Joan Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

Participatory evaluation can be embedded in programs to support good governance and facilitate informed decision making in Aboriginal communities in remote and urban contexts. An Aboriginal Elder from the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia described participatory evaluation as a sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed.” The metaphor refers to the long-term and broad approach undertaken when a complex community development program used participatory processes to build evaluation capacity and solve problems. The evaluation approach ensured the program was inclusive, responsive, empowering, and resulted in direct benefits for the communities. This article addresses the lack of literature on applying developmental and empowerment evaluation approaches in practice by describing the methods, tools, and use of evaluation findings. The value of participating for the community members and partner organizations is shared and the benefits and implications for participants and the evaluator are discussed. The authors hope this article inspires practitioners and evaluators to consider participatory ways of working with communities to support community directed action and social change.

Practice Notes from a Participatory Impact Evaluation of a Leadership Development Program for People Living with HIV

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Duddy ◽  
Mona Lee ◽  
Elayne McIvor ◽  
Paul Kerber ◽  
Alfiya Battalova
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Leadership Development Program ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

Interest in participatory evaluation and other collaborative inquiry approaches has risen substantially over the past few decades. However, there appears to be a lack of practical information about using and applying participatory evaluation approaches on-the-ground. This Practice Note uses a participatory impact evaluation of a leadership development program for people living with HIV and findings from a meta-evaluation of this work to describe: (i) the participatory evaluation approach adopted; (ii) challenges and lessons learned related to conducting a participatory evaluation; and (iii) some key factors and implications to consider maximizing success of future participatory evaluations.

Made in Sweden: The translation of a European evaluation approach

Evaluation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Kettil Nordesjö
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
Ongoing Evaluation ◽  
Made In

To understand how evaluation approaches change between contexts, they need to be studied in relation to their social, cultural, organizational and political contexts. The aim of the article is to describe and analyse how the European Union evaluation approach, ongoing evaluation, was translated in Swedish public administration. A case study shows how institutional entrepreneurs promote their evaluation norms of participatory evaluation and attach evaluation to a less dominant governance logic in the Swedish evaluation field. This raises questions about the role of the evaluator, evaluation terminology, and the unclear and weak borders of the evaluation field where evaluation approaches can be launched and translated with relative ease.

scholarly journals Representative Transmission Coefficient for Evaluating the Wave Attenuation Performance of 3D Floating Breakwaters in Regular and Irregular Waves

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Huu Phu Nguyen ◽  
Jeong Cheol Park ◽  
Mengmeng Han ◽  
Chien Ming Wang ◽  
Nagi Abdussamie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Coefficient ◽  
Wave Height ◽  
Wave Attenuation ◽  
Transmitted Wave ◽  
Irregular Waves ◽  
Hydrodynamic Analysis ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Floating Breakwater ◽  
Floating Breakwaters ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

Wave attenuation performance is the prime consideration when designing any floating breakwater. For a 2D hydrodynamic analysis of a floating breakwater, the wave attenuation performance is evaluated by the transmission coefficient, which is defined as the ratio between the transmitted wave height and the incident wave height. For a 3D breakwater, some researchers still adopted this evaluation approach with the transmitted wave height taken at a surface point, while others used the mean transmission coefficient within a surface area. This paper aims to first examine the rationality of these two evaluation approaches via verified numerical simulations of 3D heave-only floating breakwaters in regular and irregular waves. A new index—a representative transmission coefficient—is then presented for one to easily compare the wave attenuation performances of different 3D floating breakwater designs.

Expanding Foresight Evaluation Capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Annette L. Gardner ◽  
Peter Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

The subject of evaluating foresight work has been around for almost as long as the professional practice itself has, but the field has done little to move closer to a systematic evaluation of its work. This special issue marks the second collection of articles on that project after a special issue of Futures in 2012 (Van Der Duin and Van Der Martin 2012). This issue takes a three-part approach: Part 1: evaluation of foresight in general and evaluation approaches and methods that can support designing an appropriate evaluation; Part 2: evaluation of foresight work in organizations and its impact on long-term thinking and decision-making; and Part 3: evaluation of specific foresight activities—an undergraduate learner foresight experience and a health sector scenario development exercise. The foreword ends with a reflection on the continuing issue of foresight and evaluation.

Adaptive Development of Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) Chemical Control Recommendations

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-283
Author(s):  
Travis L. Almquist ◽  
Katie L. Wirt ◽  
Jason W. Adams ◽  
Rodney G. Lym
Keyword(s):  
North Dakota ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Application Timing ◽  
Linaria Vulgaris ◽  
Yellow Toadflax ◽  
Nontarget Species ◽  
Adaptive Development

AbstractYellow toadflax (Linaria vulgaris P. Mill.) infestations in North Dakota increased 300-fold from 1997 to 2011, when the plant was added to the state noxious weed list. Long-term control of other invasive species had included biological control agents, but no effective agents for yellow toadflax had been identified, so a control program using herbicides was needed. The objective was to shift from short-term control with picloram applied in the fall at maximum allowed rates to long-term management with minimal nontarget species impact with an adaptive management approach. Yellow toadflax control was increased from an average of 64% with picloram at 1,120 g ha−1 alone 12 mo after treatment (MAT) to over 90% when applied with diflufenzopyr while the picloram rate was reduced 50%. Yellow toadflax control with aminocyclopyrachlor applied at 140 g ha−1 ranged from 91 to 49% 12 MAT when applied in June or September, respectively. In contrast, yellow toadflax control with picloram plus dicamba plus diflufenzopyr averaged > 90% regardless of application date during the growing season. Land managers now have at least two options for long-term yellow toadflax control with a wide window of application timing. The goal of replacing a single high-use–rate herbicide treatment was met but both picloram and aminocyclopyrachlor can injure many desirable forbs. However, application timing can now be adjusted to have the least impact on nontarget species. The adaptive development program led to a 58% reduction in yellow toadflax infestations in North Dakota by 2014.

scholarly journals The contribution of realist evaluation to critical analysis of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education competitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 405-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Brentnall ◽  
Iván Diego Rodríguez ◽  
Nigel Culkin
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Scientific Evaluation ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Evidenced Based ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

The purpose of this article is to explore the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes through the lens of realist evaluation (RE). The interest of the authoring team – a practitioner–academic mix with professional experience including developing EE in primary and secondary schools – lies with EE competitions, a type of intervention recommended for and delivered to students and pupils of all ages. RE is a theory-driven philosophy, methodology and adaptable logic of enquiry with which to conceptualize and analyse such programmes. In this study, we undertake an act of ‘organized scepticism’, as described by evidenced-based policy academic Ray Pawson, to identify and question the declared outcomes of EE competitions in European policy over a 10-year period. However, our contribution goes beyond the application of an evaluation approach, novel to EE. We argue that, while education generally, and EE specifically, appears committed to emulating ‘gold standard’ scientific evaluation approaches (e.g. randomized controlled trials, systematic review and meta-analysis), the field of evidenced-based policymaking has moved on. Now, alternative methodological strategies are being embraced and RE in particular has evolved as an approach which better aligns knowledge production with the reality of complex, socially contingent programmes. By using this approach, we not only establish that education and psychology theories challenge the outcomes of EE competitions declared in policy, but also demonstrate the wider relevance of RE to the appraisal and refinement of the theorizing and practice of entrepreneurship programmes and interventions.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of evidence based policies in the era of digitalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 477-485
Author(s):  
András Bojtor ◽  
Gábor Bozsó
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Evaluation Phase ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
International Comparative

A well-functioning administration with embedded institutions enables the formulation of a competitive environment which propitiously effects the country’s economic growth. In case of an intervention, the results and impacts should be measured and continuously monitored in a strategic policy cycle. These activities can be done on project and national levels and at the same time there could be a legitimate claim for carrying out international comparative analysis of results. The majority of public administration developments belongs to the scope of e-government. The evidencebased policy making is a component of good governance next to transparency, sustainability, efficiency, integrity and people centricity. Government obligations and responsibilities in evaluations vary from country to country. Digitalization brings new challenges for public service and governments are taking various measures in response to them. Evaluation can fulfil its role in the strategic policy cycle only if it can meet the political conditions with attention to ethical and methodological standards; can adapt to the digitalized circumstances. The paper aims a deeper analysis of evaluation phase, and to summarize the possible new methods reaching better results in public services and public administration services. In this paper we are going to conduct an international comparative analysis with a special attention given to a public administration development program in Hungary.

scholarly journals Evaluation Program for the Career Development of Indonesian Navy Civilian Personnel using the Cipp Evaluation Model and Analytical Hierarchy Process (Ahp)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1309-1316
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Class Iii ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Nowadays, the implementers of Civilian Personnel (Pegawai Negeri Sipil/PNS) Career Development Programs within the Indonesian Navy are still one with military personnel where their existence is only complementary so that they become less optimal/less focused. In its implementation, it is only carried out by officials at the level of Head of Affair (Superintendent/PNS class III/c), the impacts are low of performance, competence and confidence that can be related with weakening work performance. This study aims to provide an evaluation of Civilian Personnel career development programs within the Indonesian Navy by using the CIPP evaluation approach (Content, Input, Process, Product) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods. Based on the results of the program evaluation study, it can be seen that the results of the Context aspect evaluation amounted to 85.84% with the Excellent category; Input aspects amounted to 76.38% with good categories; Process aspects were 79.77% with good categories; Product aspect is 82.48 in the excellent category. So, the overall evaluation of the Civilian Personnel career development program is 81.12% with an Excellent category. The results of the recommendations state that career development programs need to be revised on several aspects of the criteria.

scholarly journals Disaster management strategies and relation of good governance for the coastal Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-279
Author(s):  
Prabal Barua ◽  
◽  
Abhijit Mitra ◽  
Saeid Eslamian ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Management Policies

Although Bangladesh’s immense steps in preparing the disaster management policies following the values of good governance issue, the quantity to which these policies have productively been executing at the local level remnants mostly unknown. The objectives of this investigation were dual: firstly, to inspect the roles and efficiency of the local-level governance and disaster management organization, and lastly, to recognize the obstacles to the execution of national the policies and Disaster-Risk-Reduction guidelines at the local community level. The authors applied qualitative research and case Study approach, using techniques from the Participatory Rural Appraisal toolbox to collect data from local community members as well as government and NGO officials. From the finding of the study, it was revealed that interactive disaster governance, decentralization of disaster management, and compliance by local-level institutions with good governance principles and national policy guidelines can be extremely effective in reducing disaster-loss and damages. According to coastal community members, the local governments have generally failed to uphold good governance principles, and triangulated data confirm that the region at large suffers from rampant corruption, political favoritism, lack of transparency and accountability and minimal inclusion of local inhabitants in decision-making – all of which have severely impeded the successful implementation of national disaster-management policies. This study contributes to these research gaps, with identification of further research agenda in these areas. The paper deals with International Sendai Framework that called for enhancement of local level community resilience to disasters. Thus, it contributes to numerous policy and practice areas relating to good disaster governance. The study identified the specific manifestations of these failures in coastal communities in Bangladesh. These results underscore the vital need to address the wide gap between national DRR goals and the on-the-ground realities of policy implementation to successfully enhance the country’s resilience to climate change-induced disasters.

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