Title:
Evaluation evolution? : three approaches to evaluation
Authors:
Hospes, O.
Year:
2008
Serial number:
8
Journal:
The Broker
Pages:
24
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26
ISSN:
1874-2033
Language:
eng
Subject:
Development Cooperation General
Keywords:
aid programmes
,
evaluation
Abstract:
Politicians are calling for evaluations that measure the effects of development cooperation. However, good development cooperation focuses on long-term processes that cannot be measured in terms of cause and effect. Alternative approaches to evaluation are needed. The evidence-oriented approach is the most dominant in development cooperation evaluation, but it is not necessarily the most illuminating. The realistic approach, meanwhile, is mainly applied in the fields of justice, health and social services in European countries. According to some theorists, however, a shift is occurring away from evidence-oriented to realistic and complexity evaluation. The importance of the social and political contexts in which a policy is employed is increasingly recognized.
Organization:
The Broker
Category:
General
Right:
© 2008 IDP. This article has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.
Document type:
E-article
File:
137960.pdf