Chris Roche La Trobe University, Melbourne Institute for Human Security and Social Change
Where I am Coming From? ACFID: Promoting Voice and Choice: Innovations in NGO accountability • Big Push Forward - The Politics of Evidence: Blog, Conference & Book • Developmental Leadership Program: The Evaluation of Politics and the Politics of Evaluation, M&E when Politics Matters • Pacific Leadership Program: Developing appropriate M&E, Action-Research and Knowledge strategies
What are some of the Tensions? • Small ‘ e ’ vs Big ‘ E ’ evidence • Demand for ‘Sausage Numbers’ and conclusions • ‘PEA’ without gender & social relations • Politics of Evidence
Some Ways Forward? • From M&E to MERCL… • Recognising different forms of knowledge: research, practitioner & citizen based (see ODI), Individual • Bringing feminist Access to Abilities, understanding of land, income, attitudes, and education and opportunities. health etc. collective action & Formal Informal power relations into the picture (see Rao Policies and Social norms laws and attitudes & Kelleher) Budgets Systemic
Some Ways Forward? • Recognising that this work is more like Spread Betting than anything else • Outcome ‘Harvesting’ approaches & real-time Action-Research
Issues to Consider • The Political Economy of Funders and Proponents of T&A – turning the tools on ourselves? Understanding the ‘eco - system’. • Addressing an emerging view that international efforts should focus on international development issues, not on ‘developing ‘countries (i.e. Deaton) and/or should focus on basic services (i.e. Barder)
Recommend
More recommend
