Speaking Justice to Power: Ethical and Methodological Challenges for Evaluators

ISBN-13: 9781138514959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 315 str.

Kim Forss

Opis

Efficiency, economy, and equity are policy goals pursued by governments around the world, but analysts and evaluators have devoted more effort to measuring and evaluating the first two

Spis treści

Foreword
Kathryn Newcomer

1. Introduction
Kim Forss and Mita Marra

Part I: Equity in Theory: Implications for Evaluation

2. Thinking about Equity: From Philosophy to Social Science
Mita Marra and Kim Forss
3. How Much Equity Do We Need? A Decision-Making Tool Reconciling Utilitarian and Rawlsian Approaches to Collective Effi ciency
Barbara Befani
4. Inequality, Institutions, and Change The Case of Senegal
Jens Andersson

Part II: Equity in Evaluation Approaches: Challenges for Evaluators

5. Renewing Democratic Evaluation The Case of a Progressive Evaluation Model
Robert Picciotto
6. Beyond Feminist and Gender-Based Approaches: Evaluating Cooperation between Men and Women for Gender Equity
Mita Marra
7. Equity versus (Gender) Equality: Complexities and Implications in Programming, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Lydia Ruprecht and Sara Callegari
8. Using Th eories of Reach to Enhance Equity Considerations in Evaluation
John Mayne
9. Achieving Equality at Scale through System Transformation: Evaluating System Change
Tom Ling
10. Monitoring Equity and the Evaluation of Equity Monitoring Systems
Peter Wilkins

Part III: Equity in Program Evaluation: Lessons Learnt

11. Supporting Vulnerable Communities to Adapt to Climate Change: Defi ning Vulnerability and Evaluating Outcomes
Alison Pollard
12. Evaluations of the Impact of Fair Trade on Development: Th e Case of Coffee
Steve Jacob
13. Impact for Whom? Analyzing and Valuing the Distribution of Benefi ts from Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions
Kim Forss
14. Evaluating Equity within a Heterogeneous Group: The Challenges Faced by Child Rights Programming and Their Evaluation
Ananda S. Millard
15. Getting Good Data to Evaluate Employment Equity Initiatives: An Example from Canada
Maria Barrados
16. Equity-Oriented Interventions and Defining the Populations of Aboriginal Peoples and National Minorities: Experiences from Sweden, Canada, and Australia
Maria Barrados, Kim Forss, and Peter Wilkins

Contributors

Index

O autorze

Kim Forss holds a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics. His research has concerned comparative studies of evaluation, the design of inquiring systems and organizational learning, utilization of results, as well as process use of evaluation. He works as an independent researcher out of his firm Andante - tools for thinking AB. Mitta Marra is Visiting Professor of Comparative Public Policy at The George Washington University. She is Associate Editor of Evaluation and Program Planning (EPP) and Editor in Chief of RIV - Rassena Italiana di Valutazione.