Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Development CooperationIDRC, 1998 - 252 pages This book presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. With its instructive case studies from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, and St Vincent, the book is a guide to a community-based approach to evaluation that is at once a learning process, a means of taking action, and a catalyst for empowerment.Knowledge Shared is the most comprehensive book now available on participatory evaluation. It is intended primarily as a tool for practitioners and policymakers in all segments of development cooperatio. |
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Page 151 - Organization is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world without distinction of race, sex, language or religion by the Charter of the United Nations.
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Page 222 - The one function that social workers, or for that matter, anyone else cannot perform for another person is that of empowerment. Empowerment is a reflexive activity, a process capable of being initiated and sustained only by the agent or subject who seeks power or self-determination. Others can only aid and abet in this empowerment process. They do so by providing a climate, a relationship, resources, and procedural means through which people can enhance their own lives.
Page 229 - ... Doing criticism means exposing the implicit values that guide our research and recognizing that research which precludes implications for alternative policy choices is not worth doing." Sjoberg (31), pp. 90-91, further suggests that ". . . criticism alone will not advance the cause of human dignity. We must formulate research orientations that emphasize the development of alternative structural arrangements that transcend some of the difficulties inherent in the present-day social order
Page 239 - Chairman of the Department of Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Chairman of Unesco's International Committee for the Advancement of Adult Education from 1961-66.
Page 10 - Empowerment evaluation is the use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination (Fetterman, 2001; Fetterman, Kaftarian, & Wandersman, 1996).
Page 237 - Edward T. Jackson is Chair of the Centre for the Study of Training, Investment and Economic Restructuring, and Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, at Carleton University of Ottawa.
Page 199 - This meeting was instrumental in the formation of the Women and Development Unit (WAND) of the University of the West Indies...
Page 120 - For Praxis: The Problem of How to Investigate Reality in Order to Transform It.
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