On this page I talk firstly about the practice of impact evaluation, a journey from impact assessment in the late 1990s, through to Monitoring, Evalaution, Learning, Accountability, Transparency, Performance and Effectiveness today.
In fact, there are a whole lot of practices involved in impact evaluations, from baseline surveys and drafting of terms of reference, to post project evaluations and negotiating impact during final report meetings and email exchanges.
Secondly, of key importance is what practices are, how we understand them. So, on here I will post some resources for those interested in practice theories and why they are important for impact evaluation.
Example practices within impact evaluation include:
- Embedding evaluations into proposals and funding bids
- Understanding and learning about approaches to evaluations
- Writing and approving terms of reference for evaluators
- Designing research tools such as surveys, interview plans
- Engaging respondents
- Interviewing villagers in their homes
- Filling in onlne surveys
- Storing data in spreadsheets and databases
- Analysing data for themes, categories and conceptual resources
- Report writing and editing
- Report findings negotiation between client and evaluators
- Using findings and themes in public relations
- USing findings and themes in organisational strategy
- Using findings and themes infunding decision making
A range of full theoretical stances, approaches or perspectives on practice exist, such as:
- Historical materialism (Marxian)
- Existentialist (Heideggarian for example)
- Phenomenological practice
- Wittgenstinian - meaning as use
- Foucault's archeology and geneology
- Deluezian territories
- Bourdieu's habitus and field
- Giddens structuration
- Shatzki's approach
- Ethnomethodology (UK and US variants)
- Actor Networks and Post ANT
- Activity Theory and knotworks
- Sociomateriality
- Recent takes on practice from Shove, Rekwitz and Ward
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