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Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice?

Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice?. Brigitte Gaiffe Evaluator ITECO, Training Centre for développement. An approach to evaluation. Society/Development Education Evaluation. Cross-fertilization. Adult education Development education Networking.

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Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice?

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  1. Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice? Brigitte Gaiffe Evaluator ITECO, Training Centre for développement

  2. An approach to evaluation Society/Development Education Evaluation

  3. Cross-fertilization • Adult education • Development education • Networking

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Tensions • Different visions of society, development education and evaluation: • Objectivity   Subjectivity • External   Internal • Results   Process • Control   Learning • Individual   Collective change

  7. What to evaluate? • Coherence • Pertinence • Internal organisation • Effectiveness • Impact • Partnership

  8. 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

  9. 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)

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