I am posting link references and resources available on the internet here. These will be used in my PhD planning and range from newspaper and magazine articles about development, impact and social practices, to books, UN reports and scholarly papers that I think offer insights into the practice, rather than just the talk, of impact evaluations. Let me know if you would like to add any good ones!
Popular culture e.g. newspaper, magazine articles
Fundraising.c.uk article - "... f2f fundraising on the philosophical front line ..."I'd never heard the word "chuggers" before I read these. Its interesting coz "chuggers" is where "inconvenient hassle in the street" meets critical help for marginalised people. Social practices stretched from dire need to mild inconvenience.
Guardian.com - should I be rude to chuggers?
Agencies & organisations
http://www.grameenfoundation.orgMkombozi - NGO working with street children. Thought there annual report, with profiles, numbers and senior exec message used typical devices for communicating evaluation. Liked their site and their cause. Did make me think about numbers - do execs and does Joe Public just want the numbers?
This is a training page for M&E courses - see INTRAC. Looks great actually, but did make me wonder if M&E, or MEL nowadays, has became a new Prince 2, or PMP for evaluation? Is the hard discourse taking over? Is the hard discourse actually a function of "offering an education"?
Great article about evalution feedback from Leslie Groves page. have to contact her about some of the comments and one article why beneficiaries and why are they not involved in the lifecycle of evaluation practices?
Papers & books
Lily Kommonen - About artefacts and practice https://www.herts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/12355/WPIAAD_vol3_kommonen.pdf
Time to Listen - Great great book (and free!) on thousands of qualitative interviews with so called "development beneficiaries" - horrible phrase. Lots of insights here, but still evaluation is predominantly through discrete measurements for distant decision makers.
Time to Listen - Great great book (and free!) on thousands of qualitative interviews with so called "development beneficiaries" - horrible phrase. Lots of insights here, but still evaluation is predominantly through discrete measurements for distant decision makers.
Technologies & techniques
http://www.votomobile.org -Tech tools for mobile in evaluation and engagement - looks very coo, but made me wonder if it would work with illiterate, remote, mountain based (i.e. not steady signal) ethnic hill tribe people? Would love to try.University of Bath
Both great re bias & power in the poor domain, but not in the evaluation network itself.
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