A few comments have been posted on our blog. Apologies we are a bit slow with our
reaction: We have been so absorbed by our hunt for contact details (see
earlier post) and the launch of our survey with evaluation stakeholders - that we
sort of lost sight of the useful comments which have appeared.
Rick Davies
has shared a reference – thank you! – and directed us to an interesting
blog posting on the question whether evaluations must fulfil certain quality
standards to produce positive effects. The comments appear when you click on
the titles “Inception” and “Evaluations identified for the first coding round”
below.
Carol
Miller (under “Soon to come: QCA conditions”) hopes we will look at evaluation
processes in terms of how they contribute to empowerment of key stakeholders.
Empowerment of stakeholders is indeed among the effects we intend to measure.
By the way, our model for QCA will be published here - on this blog - with our final inception report,
by March 2014. A couple of updates will be posted before that date.
One caveat:
this project is not a huge piece of original research – it is a review of
evaluation reports that is enriched by some primary data collection on
evaluation effects, chiefly through a short web-based survey with four types
of evaluation stakeholders – evaluators, people who commission evaluations, people who have implemented the interventions evaluated, and representatives of organisations that have funded the interventions. (We realise these categories sometimes overlap.) So, we won’t go into
the fine detail of every possible evaluation effect. But we are confident we
can find some interesting contours.
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