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

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.

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

Indian Journal of Gender Studies ◽

10.1177/097152151201900206 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 279-301 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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Evaluating Security Research Support: The Case of Czech Security Research Programme 2010–2015

Ergo ◽

10.1515/ergo-2017-0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 25-32

Author(s):

Vladislav Čadil ◽

Luděk Moravec

Keyword(s):

Evaluation Process ◽

Research Programme ◽

Learning From Experience ◽

Programme Implementation ◽

Secondary Importance ◽

Post Evaluation ◽

Security Research ◽

Ex Post ◽

Wide Range ◽

Research Programmes

Abstract Based on a case study of the ex-post evaluation of the programme VG-Security Research 2010–2015 this paper aims to present a possible way of the ex-post evaluation of security research programmes, and to highlight some aspects that must be taken into account in the evaluation process. It examines limits of application of the Basic Principles of Elaboration and Evaluation of Programmes and Groups of Grant Projects in Research, Development and Innovation. The limits follow from the emphasis on the summative nature of the evaluation, which combines a range of indicators that relates to a wide range of programme features. However, in the case of security research, these are rather of secondary importance or no relevance to an assessment of the success of the programme and obtaining feedback on the programme implementation for the needs of qualified learning from experience at levels of programme management and programme formulation.

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The Impact of Sports Activities on the Decrease of PLWHA Stigma and Social Values

JURNAL PENDIDIKAN JASMANI DAN OLAHRAGA ◽

10.17509/jpjo.v4i2.18038 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 118-126

Author(s):

Megia Erida

Keyword(s):

Social Values ◽

Well Being ◽

T Test ◽

Social Value ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Ex Post ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact ◽

Sports Activities ◽

Hiv Aids

Sports activities are activities that can be carried out by all groups with the aim of improving the quality of life in terms of physical fitness and psycho-social well-being. People who suffer from HIV/AIDS often get negative stigma and changes in social values. This study was aimed at determining the decrease in stigma and changes in the social value of PLWHA (people with HIV / AIDS) through futsal Rumah Cemara Bandung sports activities. The method used in this study was a comparative causal method (ex-post facto). Design of the study used criteria group. The technique of sampling in this study used convience sampling technique. The sample of this study consisted of 20 people divided into two groups: 10 PLWHA who were active in sports and 10 PLWHA who were not active in sports. Data collection process was conducted through face-to-face interview and structured questionnaire. Based on validity and reliability tests, researchers used an adopted questionnaire and discussed the questionnaire with the expert. Data analysis was conducted by using SPSS version 23 employing independent sample T-test. The results of this study indicate a decrease in stigma and changes in social values seen from T test with tcount ttable. The conclusions from the Stigma calculation was 3.439 2.10092 and Social Value was 3.730 2.10092. The result concludes that sports activities have an effect on reducing the stigma and changes in the Social Value of PLWHA.

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Bologna, My Love: Il Cinema Ritrovato

Film Quarterly ◽

10.1525/fq.2019.73.2.72 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

pp. 72-79

Author(s):

Carla Marcantonio

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Large Scale ◽

Francis Ford Coppola ◽

The Social ◽

Ongoing Project

FQ books editor Carla Marcantonio guides readers through the 33rd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival held each year in Bologna at the end of June. Highlights of this year's festival included a restoration of one of Vittorio De Sica's hard-to-find and hence lesser-known films, the social justice fairy tale, Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951). The film was presented by De Sica's daughter, Emi De Sica, and was an example of the ongoing project to restore De Sica's archive, which was given to the Cineteca de Bologna in 2016. Marcantonio also notes her unexpected responses to certain reviewings; Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019), presented by Francis Ford Coppola on the large-scale screen of Piazza Maggiore and accompanied by remastered Dolby Atmos sound, struck her as a tour-de-force while a restoration of David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) had lost some of its strange allure.

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Diffusion and Adoption of Corruption in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ghana

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.240 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Solomon A. Keelson ◽

Thomas Cudjoe ◽

Manteaw Joy Tenkoran

Keyword(s):

Social Values ◽

Developing Economies ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Institutional Factors ◽

Developing Economy ◽

Theoretical Underpinning ◽

Institutional Failure ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Diffusion

The present study investigates diffusion and adoption of corruption and factors that influence the rate of adoption of corruption in Ghana. In the current study, the diffusion and adoption of corruption and the factors that influence the speed with which corruption spreads in society is examined within Ghana as a developing economy. Data from public sector workers in Ghana are used to conduct the study. Our findings based on the results from One Sample T-Test suggest that corruption is perceived to be high in Ghana and diffusion and adoption of corruption has witnessed appreciative increases. Social and institutional factors seem to have a larger influence on the rate of corruption adoption than other factors. These findings indicate the need for theoretical underpinning in policy formulation to face corruption by incorporating the relationship between the social values and institutional failure, as represented by the rate of corruption adoption in developing economies.

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Performing Masculinity and the Crisis of Transclass Man in August Wilson’s Drama

Commonwealth Youth and Development ◽

10.25159/1727-7140/3310 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Khatija Bibi Khan ◽

Owen Seda

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Social Values ◽

Social Construct ◽

Cultural Experience ◽

Great Cost ◽

Social Milieu ◽

Male Characters ◽

The Social ◽

North End

Feminist critics have identified the social constructedness of masculinity and have explored how male characters often find themselves caught up in a ceaseless quest to propagate and live up to an acceptable image of manliness. These critics have also explored how the effort to live up to the dictates of this social construct has often come at great cost to male protagonists. In this paper, we argue that August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone present the reader with a coterie of male characters who face the dual crisis of living up to a performed masculinity and the pitfalls that come with it, and what Mazrui has referred to as the phenomenon of “transclass man.” Mazrui uses the term transclass man to refer to characters whose socio-economic and socio-cultural experience displays a fluid degree of transitionality. We argue that the phenomenon of transclass man works together with the challenges of performed masculinity to create characters who, in an effort to adjust to and fit in with a new and patriarchal urban social milieu in America’s newly industrialised north, end up destroying themselves or failing to realise other possibilities that may be available to them. Using these two plays as illustrative examples, we further argue that staged masculinity and the crisis of transclass man in August Wilson’s plays create male protagonists who break ranks with the social values of a collectively shared destiny to pursue an individualistic personal trajectory, which only exacerbates their loss of social identity and a true sense of who they are.

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Social Justice and Dietetic Education: Are We Preparing Practitioners to Lead?

Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research ◽

10.3148/cjdpr-2020-008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 81 (3) ◽

pp. 120-126

Author(s):

Jennifer Brady

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Education And Training ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Structural Determinants ◽

Social Justice Advocacy ◽

Dietetic Education ◽

Qualitative Survey ◽

The Social ◽

Reflexive Practice ◽

And Training

Purpose: To explore dietetic practitioners’ perceptions of their education and training in the knowledge, skills, and confidence to understand social justice issues and to engage in socially just dietetic practice and social justice advocacy. Methods: An online semi-qualitative survey sent to Canadian dietitians. Results: Most respondents (n = 264; 81.5%) felt that knowledge- and skill-based learning about social justice and social justice advocacy should be a part of dietetic education and training. Reasons given by respondents for the importance of social justice learning include: client-centred care and reflexive practice, effecting change to the social and structural determinants of health, preventing dietitian burnout, and relevance of the profession. Yet, over half of respondents either strongly disagreed or disagreed that they were adequately prepared with the knowledge (n = 186; 57.4%), skills (n = 195; 60.2%), or confidence (n = 196; 60.5%) to engage in advocacy related to social justice concerns. Some questioned the practicality of adding social justice learning via additional courses to already full programs, while others proposed infusing a social justice lens across dietetic education and practice areas. Conclusions: Dietetic education and training must do more to prepare dietitians to answer calls for dietitians to engage in social justice issues through practice and advocacy.

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