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Enabling Evaluation Environment in India: Evidence of Positive Vibes

This article explores the evidence of positive vibes in India's evaluation environment, highlighting initiatives such as financial inclusion, cooperative federalism, Make in India, and Digital India. It also discusses the role of the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI) in promoting accountability, transparency, and efficiency.

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Enabling Evaluation Environment in India: Evidence of Positive Vibes

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  1. Enabling Evaluation Environment in India: Evidence of Positive Vibes Rashmi Agrawal Ph.D. Evaluation Community of India (ECOI) E-Mail: rashmi_agrawal56@rediffmail.com

  2. Evidence of Positive Vibes Financial Inclusion-No one left behind Insurance • Jan Dhan Yojana • 240 million accounts • Guinness Book of Records • 96.7 million SurkashaBima Policies ( Insurance) for the poorest of the poor

  3. Cooperative Federalism- Networking • Example:

  4. Out of Box Approach • Ideas invited from community for development- MyGov platform • Establishment of connect with common people- Address by PM • Evidence based dialogue and interventions- (Increase in employment days due to drought)

  5. Make in India- To have Manufacturing Hub and create jobs Digital India- E Governance Initiative- To deal with corruption and Modernize Skill, Scale and Speed- SDG- 1 Clean India Mission- SDG-6 Start Up India Stand Up India To develop Entrepreneurship and inclusion The New programs- Glimpse of some initiatives on SDGs

  6. Demand for Evaluations from all corners- Accountability, Transparency, efficiency Positive Vibes and Evaluation Culture

  7. Response to Demand

  8. Evaluation Community of India (ECOI) Launched – Oct 16, 2015

  9. International cooperation Workshops Stakeholders coming together P2P proposal accepted where we propose to organise various events to have field building with national and international stakeholders

  10. India’s Representation in Various Evaluation Events

  11. Evolving Contextual Tool – Story Narration and Reaction • Indirect method of expression • Useful in personal behavioural issues, relationships and mindset about social empowerment and mainstreaming • Under this approach live events have been picked up from the society and converted into fiction • The participants are encouraged to discuss the story which provides an idea of their own thinking and mindsets. • This technique can be used in measuring and evaluating the social empowerment behaviours. • This method is in a preliminary stage of being developed for wider use.

  12. Gunti • She does not know who named her Gunti and why. She never liked her name as it sounded like a bad omen. Gunti was the only child of her parents born several years after their wedding. But we get something and we lose something. Unfortunately, within months of Gunti’s birth her mother passed away, and her father, not knowing how to rear the child, married again with Sara much younger to him. Soon after the marriage, Gunti became the responsibility of Sara. Gunti called her ‘Mom’. • People around used to say that Sara was a step-mother and she would not be kind and affectionate to Gunti. Gunti also overheard this talk but she did not even know the meaning of step-mother. One day she addressed Sara as step-mother. Sara was surprised and many emotions could be seen on herface. Suddenly she smiled and asked Gunti “Tell me,what is a step-mother?” “I don’t know”, replied Gunti. “then call me mother,”, said Sara. Gunti was about five years old then but realized that something was not good with the word ‘step-mother’. • In the neighbourhood lived a couple whom Gunti used to call as uncle and aunty. One day, when Gunti was going out to fetch milk, the couple who were sitting outside in the courtyard asked her where she was going. “Going to fetch milk” Gunti replied and moved ahead. She could hear what they were talking. The uncle remarked, “See, a small child is being made to work”, to which the aunty replied, “After all, it is a step-mother”. Gunti paused for a moment but remembered “Call me mother” and so moved ahead. She wondered how her fetching milk and step-mother are related to each other. After all, it was she who insisted on going to fetch milk because she liked the sweet butter which Mangu, the milk shop owner would give her.

  13. Those were worship days. The aunty invited Gunti and other children for Puja. After Puja when the children were leaving, the aunty asked Gunti to stay for a while and asked, “ Is your mother treating you well?”. Gunti said ‘Yes’ but hesitatingly asked, “Aunty what is a step-mother?” Aunty replied, “ like yours. She has not given you birth. Your mother passed. Step mothers beat their step children, shout at them, do not give them proper food and make them do all household chores.” Gunti ran away to her house and started thinking if her mother treated her bad at any time of her growing. But she could not remember a single occasion when her mother beat her, shouted at her, or made her do work against her will. She would run after her and make her eat well. In fact, her father sometimes shouted at her ; for that reason he should be called a ‘step-father’. • A child is very innocent. Once a thought enters a child’s mind, it keeps bothering. Gunti thought that may be after a few years, when she grows up her mother would show her true colours. She started troubling her mother purposely. The mother, however, never said anything. May be she was looking for a soft relationship and bond in Gunti. • It was time now for Gunti to go to school. She told Sara, “I do not like the name Gunti, change it.” Sara replied, ‘I do not want to change it; your dead mother who gave this name stays alive in your name. And I like your name very much as it sounds like a Ghanti (nice sound coming out from a temple bell.)” Gunti saw her, she was smiling. Gunti felt as if rains have washed away all doubts from her mind. She embraced her mother warmly. For the first time, her name sounded so sweet to her. Her mother also perhaps found her future in her present.

  14. Tryout Outcome Report • School- My step mom never behaves like this ( She also never accepted step mom as her mom) • Training course participants- • Self perceptions are judged with societal perceptions • Useful in measuring mind sets • Discussion on such stories can help change behaviours and stereotypic attitudes- Community building • Such contextual stories need to be developed • A Manuel for using this approach should be developed

  15. The Challenges • Need for Evaluation Policy- Action Group in ECOI is preparing draft • Mapping of Evaluation related Resources- Some efforts made • Need for Capacity Development specially in the light of SDGs- Systems approach etc. • Networking of VOPEs and pooling of resources- To have mutual memberships • On line courses- To be developed • Evaluation Awareness- Involving parliamentarians is essential

  16. Thank You

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