"Systemic evaluation design continuously addresses six questions: 1. What are the intervention purposes? 2. What is the scope and focus of the intervention and evaluation? 3. What ought to be the consequences of the evaluation and what evaluation purposes promote those consequences? 4. What are the
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criteria (or values) that should underpin the judgment of merit, worth and significance? 5. What questions inform the collection of data so that judgments can be made using those criteria? 6. How can the evaluation be feasible? A systemic approach can be summarised as: understanding inter-relationships, engaging with multiple perspectives and reflecting on boundary choices. Systemic evaluation design flows from three key principles: 1. Systemic evaluation design is a process and a product. Evaluation design is a process that occurs throughout the evaluation, not just a product of the first stage of an evaluation. 2. Systemic evaluation design focuses on consequences. And by that I mean the consequences of the evaluation. Some might call it outcomes. 3. Systemic evaluation design emphasises what to leave out rather than what to put in. It is not possible to include everything that happened in the intervention, nor possible to include every single perspective or viewpoint or framing of the intervention." (Page ii)
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"El poder atribuir los cambios a nuestra intervención es el principal desafío de los evaluadores. Conceptos como eficacia, eficiencia e impacto ocupan la atención de los evaluadores. Pero ¿este es el único enfoque para evaluar los cambios y las trasformaciones vinculadas a nuestras intervencion
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es? ¿Qué sucedería si consideramos a la intervención como el "cliente" y al donante como una parte interesada, junto a las comunidades y a otras instituciones y actores que puedan beneciarse o perjudicarse con el proyecto? ¿Qué pasaría si en lugar de medir impactos reexionamos sobre las consecuencias éticas y políticas de nuestra intervención?. ¿Y si ponemos en valor la sostenibilidad de los cambios en lugar de evaluar el cumplimiento (o justicar el incumplimiento) de las actividades previstas?" (Contratapa)
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"Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little done to bring about change within organisations. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations contribute to empowering stakeholde
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rs. This practical guide brings together evaluation concepts, methods and tools that work well in the field and presents core principles for guiding evaluations that matter; provides a framework for designing and facilitating evaluations; shows you how to get your primary intended users and other key stakeholders to contribute effectively to the evaluation process; offers ideas for turning evaluations into learning processes. Making evaluations matter to the primary intended users of development programmes is at the heart of this book – a must-read for evaluators, commissioners, monitoring and evaluation officers and key stakeholders within the international development sector." (Back cover)
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"Explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The boo
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k is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as "recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose." (Publisher description)
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"The 6th meeting of the African Media Partners Network, which followed on from the meetings held in Paris (1995), Brussels (1996), Bellagio, Copenhagen (1997) and Johannesburg (1998), was organised by the network's technical secretariat in collaboration with the Dutch non-profit association CAF/SCO.
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the meeting in Amsterdam, from 6 to 9 Decem-ber 1999. Gertie Hesseling, Director of the Centre for African Studies and representing CAF/SCO, chaired the opening session. Apart from the various presentations of activities by new members and by Dutch partners, the meeting focussed on three main working themes: issues of professional organisation and structure; law and ethics; the use of new information and communication technologies (NICT), training and pro-duction. Work took place in plenary sessions following a programme designed to allow flexibility and debate. The object of the present report is to provide a faithful (but not exhaustive) record of thepresentations and the debates to which the meeting gave rise. The programme and the list of delegates are provided in annex." (Page 1)
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"The local media - local newspapers and radio, regional television, cable television and local news on the internet - represents a diverse and rapidly-changing sector of the British media landscape. Bringing together media academics, local journalists and other media professionals, this text present
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s a thorough, up-to-date and authoritative account of recent developments and future prospects for Britain's local newspapers, local media and local journalism. Drawing on current research and relevant literature, the book covers: "key developments in the local media scene, the distinctive editorial format of local newspapers, news sources and other sources available to local journalists, recent developments in media policy, online journalism, ethics and regulations, and the impact of new technology." (Publisher description)
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