Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice?

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Development Education Evaluation How to learn
from practice?

• Brigitte Gaiffe
• Evaluator
• ITECO, Training Centre for développement

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An approach to evaluation

• Society/Development
• Education Evaluation

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Cross-fertilization

• Adult education
• Development education
• Networking

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Main findings from practice

• Funders requirements for evaluation v. objective
  of learning from practice
• Logical framework not adapted to needs and
  realities of DE
• Little research about NGOs practice and benefits
  to stakeholders

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Challenges

• Need for specific methods and alternative
  approaches adapted to the development education
  actions
• Reduce the gap between funders requirements and
  DE organizations needs for improvement
• Funding for research on evaluation to face
  challenges

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Tensions

• Different visions of society, development
  education and evaluation

• Objectivity ? ? Subjectivity
• External ? ? Internal
• Results ? ? Process
• Control ? ? Learning
• Individual ? ? Collective change

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What to evaluate?

• Coherence
• Pertinence
• Internal organisation
• Effectiveness
• Impact
• Partnership

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Conclusions

• The same methods and tools are not valid at all
  levels of evaluation
• Set priority to challenges and what is at stake
  for the future
• The purpose and the aim of evaluation should
  guide the choice of the method

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Some References

• Segmented evaluation (Th. Desmedt-UCL)
• Compass (ITECO)
• Systematisation (O. Jara - Alforja)
• Fields of objectives and evaluation levels (V.
  Dupriez - UCL)
• Potentialisation (M. Hansotte - BIJ)