Evaluation for equitable development results
01 April 2012
This wide-ranging publication aims to contribute to the international debate on how to achieve
equitable development results by conceptualizing, designing, implementing and using evaluations
focused on human rights and equity. It does so by offering a number of strong contributions from 27
world-level experts and senior officers in institutions and governments dealing with development
and evaluation. The authors also presented their contribution in a series of webinars that are
available for download on the
My
M&E web portal. The book complements an earlier manual “
How to
design and implement equity-focused evaluations,” published in 2011.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the relationship between evaluation and
human rights and equity.
Part II focuses on the methodological implications in design, implement and use of
Equity-focused evaluations; and
part III presents few examples of Equity-focused evaluations.
Table of Contents
Prefaces
- Colin Kirk, UNICEF, Director, Evaluation Office
- Soma de Silva and Jim Rugh, President and Vice President, IOCE
- Ray Rist, President, IDEAS
Part 1: Evaluation and equity
Evaluation to accelerate progress towards equity, social justice and human rights by Marco Segone, UNICEF Evaluation Office; Co-chair, UNEG Taskforce on National Evaluation Capacities; and former IOCE Vice President
Human rights and gender equality in evaluation by Janie Eriksen, UNICEF Evaluation Office, Shravanti Reddy, UNWomen Evaluation Office, and Janice Muir, OIOS; and members of UNEG Taskforce on Human Rights and Gender Equality
When human rights is the starting point for evaluation by Donna Mertens, Department of Educational Foundations and Research, Gallaudet University
Strengthening Equity- focused evaluations through insights from feminist theory and approaches by Katherine Hay, Senior Specialist, Evaluation, International Development Research Centre, Regional Office for South Asia and China
Decolonizing evaluation in a developing world. Implications and cautions for Equity-focused evaluations by Rodney K. Hopson, Duquesne University, Karen E. Kirkhart, Syracuse University and Katrina L. Bledsoe, Education Development Center, Inc
Part 2: Methodological implications for Equity-focused evaluations
Methodological issues to design and implement equity-focused evaluations by Michael Bamberger, Independent consultant
Developmental evaluation for Equity-focused evaluations by Michael Quinn Patton, Founder and Director, Utilization-focused evaluation
Systems thinking and Equity-focused evaluations by Martin Reynolds, independent consultant and Bob Williams, independent consultant
Methodological challenges in using programme theory to evaluate pro-poor and equity-focused programmes by Patricia Rogers, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and Richard Hummelbrunner, Independent consultant
Case Study and equity in Evaluation by Saville Kushner, University of the West of England
Values-Engaged Evaluations by Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Part 3: Examples of Equity-focused evaluations
Evaluating the contribution of UNDP to equity-focused public policies in Brazil and China by Juha Uitto, Deputy Director, UNDP Evaluation Office and Oscar Garcia, Senior Evaluation Adviser, UNDP Evaluation Office
Using a human rights approach to evaluate ILO’s discrimination strategy by Francisco Guzman, Senior Evaluation Specialist, ILO Evaluation Office
CONEVAL experience in evaluating interventions for Indigenous populations in Mexico by Gonzalo Hernández, Thania de la Garza, María Fernanda Paredes and Brenda Valdez Meneses, Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social
UNICEF supported evaluations with elements of equity-focused evaluations
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