Are we on the Right Track?
A Conversation around the dangers of impact assessment and evaluation
(A one-week residential, Cape Town, November 2010)
The Proteus Initiative facilitated a conversation amongst a group of southern African NGO leaders, under the auspices of EED. This conversation centred around the conundrums of evaluation for development interventions. In the event, it was a remarkably fruitful meeting which enabled a nuanced and alternative perspective to emerge concerning this contested terrain. A paper entitled The Singer not the Song – The Vexed Questions of Impact Monitoring and Social Change, by Allan Kaplan and Sue Davidoff was written as a result of this conversation. It is a very strong paper that talks to the concerns of all those concerned with development interventions, the politics and practice of evaluation, the development industry, and capacity building.
(A one-week residential, Cape Town, November 2010)
The Proteus Initiative facilitated a conversation amongst a group of southern African NGO leaders, under the auspices of EED. This conversation centred around the conundrums of evaluation for development interventions. In the event, it was a remarkably fruitful meeting which enabled a nuanced and alternative perspective to emerge concerning this contested terrain. A paper entitled The Singer not the Song – The Vexed Questions of Impact Monitoring and Social Change, by Allan Kaplan and Sue Davidoff was written as a result of this conversation. It is a very strong paper that talks to the concerns of all those concerned with development interventions, the politics and practice of evaluation, the development industry, and capacity building.