Using the science of positive psychology in the formative evaluation of social justice interventions: A case example

The pursuit of culturally responsive approaches for designing and evaluating programs to promote social justice has become of the utmost importance to the evaluation community in the past decade. A strengths-focused evaluation approach has great promise for empowering individuals, groups, communities, and organizations, and identifying program strengths to build upon in addition to illuminating program deficits. However, there is a dearth of literature on using a strengths approach to evaluate interventions and programs to promote social justice. Drawing from the two disciplines of positive psychology and evaluation, this article illustrates a strengths-focused approach to formative evaluation using a case example of a halfway house for previously incarcerated women. The findings exemplify the positive psychological phenomena that emerge as a result of focusing the evaluation on program strengths. The case demonstrates that the application of a strengths-focused approach to evaluating social justice interventions can be empowering for institutions and the communities they serve.

Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa Taman Ayu Melalui Inovasi Teknologi Sistem Integrasi Jagung Dan Sapi (Sijasa)

Tujuan kegitan PkM ini untuk meningkatkan pendapatan dan kesejahteraan masyarakat khususnya peternak sapi potong serta memperluas lapangan kerja di pedesaan yang disesuaikan dengan potensi agroekosistem wilayah desa, yaitu sistem integrasi tanaman jagung dengan ternak sapi potong (SIJASA). Metode pelaksankaan PKM difusi ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi dengan tahapan 1) perencaan, 2) Pelaksaan, 3) Pendampingan dan 4) evaluasi. Kegiatan pemberdayaan masyarakat melalui penerapan teknologi SIJASA dapat memberikan hasil yang optimal apabila penerapan metode diseminasi gelar teknologi dikawal dan didampingi oleh peneliti/dosen dari perguruan tinggi dan penyuluh pertanian di lapangan secara berkesinambungan di bawah koordinasi dinas/instansi terkait Community Empowerment of Taman Ayu Village Through Technology Innovation of Corn and Cattle Integration System (Sijasa) The purpose of this PkM activity is to increase the income and welfare of the community, especially beef cattle breeders, and to expand employment opportunities in rural areas that are adapted to the agro-ecosystem potential of the village area, namely the corn crop integration system with beef cattle (SIJASA). The method of implementing PKM is the diffusion of science and technology with stages 1) planning, 2) implementation, 3) mentoring, and 4) evaluation. Community empowerment activities through the application of SIJASA technology can provide optimal results if the application of the technology degree dissemination method is escorted and accompanied by researchers/lecturers from universities and agricultural extension workers in the field on an ongoing basis under the coordination of related agencies/agencies.

Exploring European-funded project-based networks in ICT and their links with regional total factor productivity: The FP7 and the CIP

The research evaluation community has devoted multiple efforts to analyze the effects of Framework Programmes. However, there is little empirical evidence on their impact on economic performance. This article presents an empirical analysis of the research project-based networks created by 7th Framework Programme in the field of Information and Communication Technologies and investigates their links with regional total factor productivity. For comparison purposes, the diffusion network created by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme is also studied. Our results allow us to assess whether (or not) there are any common patterns in the research and diffusion links established by regions in these two European-supported networks and evaluate their (potentially) different connection with productivity. We use tools from Social Network Analysis and, specifically, the novel measure of bridging centrality, which takes into account territories’ internal microstructure.

Evaluating Corporate Impacts on the SDGs – Tools, Cases, and Future Challenges

This paper provides a state-of-the-art review on how companies try to evaluate their impacts on the SDGs. It presents a quantitative analysis of 170 tools for corporate impact evaluation. In addition, five selected tools were tested in collaboration with three multinational corporations. The diversity of tools is enormous, and the market is relatively new and opaque. Only a few tools use complete logic frameworks, the pathways of impact are rarely uncovered, data assurance is not a common standard, third-party verification is rare, and none of the tools applies systems concepts. As a result, companies run the risk of creating a smooth façade of controllability, while underestimating the complexity of impacts and overlooking important leverage points. Bridging the gap between the business sector and the evaluation community could lift the practice of corporate impact evaluation to a higher level

Talking Circles: A Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practice

Talking Circles are safe spaces where relationships are built, nurtured, reinforced, and sometimes healed; where norms and values are established; and where people connect intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally with other members of the Circle. The Circle can also be an evaluation method that increases voice, decreases invisibility, and does not privilege one worldview or version of reality over another. The purpose of this article is to describe how the Circle can be a culturally responsive evaluation practice for those evaluators wishing to build relationships, share power, elicit stakeholder voice, solve problems, and increase participants’ capacity for program design, implementation, and evaluation. Circles can be used by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous evaluators. By offering the global evaluation community this concrete, practical, and culturally responsive approach, we open the door so that others can build on this work and offer additional insights as this practice is used, refined, and documented.

Partisipasi Masyarakat terhadap Pengembangan Desa Wisata “Watu Rumpuk” Desa Mendak Kecamatan Dagangan Kabupaten Madiun

Tourism is important sectors which became one of the fields of economic society, Assess the potential was necessary to sustain an effort so that the sector can move all levels of society, And the participation of the possible significantly. The qualitative method descriptive was used in the study, to interpreting the data obtained in the field. The results of research to explain the management of tourist village in Mendak village either on tourism and the tourism potential climbing Tapak Bima should involve the community from management planning. t is one of the rural development community-based tourism is the responsibility of the community for potential and tourism objects that in the management of tourist village in the village mendak, they must be involved in the process of planning, implementation, and evaluation. Community involvement in the process of planning, of the project up to evaluation will encourage a sense of belonging and about the potential of tourism objects that will guarantee sustainability, potentials, and the object.

A Joint Evaluation With Lessons for the Sustainable Development Goals Era: The Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme

The integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for greater synergy, harmonization, and complementarity in development work. This is to be reflected in evaluation. Despite a long and diversified history spanning over almost three decades, joint evaluations have fallen out of fashion. Evaluators tend to shy away from joint evaluations because of timeliness, institutional and organizational differences, and personal preferences. As the SDGs call for more joint evaluations, we need to get them right. This article supports the appeal for more joint evaluations in the SDGs era by learning from the existing long and diversified experience. This article shares lessons from a joint evaluation that is relevant in the context of the SDGs for the United Nations Evaluation Group, the Evaluation Cooperation Group, and the wider international evaluation community.