F Njahîra Wangarî - Book Chapter
Abstract
"This chapter blends African oral and written narratives, lived experiences with a genetic chronic disability and a Roman Catholic upbringing. These will be interrogated to illustrate the role of alternative explanations in influencing advocacy and activism for the lives, wellbeing, dignity and inclusion of persons with disabilities. Particularly, this chapter is an exploration of self-identity and how persons with disabilities are conditioned to view ourselves in specific ways while highlighting alternative perceptions available is presented by the author. It engages the works of several African and African-descendent authors who feature persons with disabilities as characters in their books and relies on narrative prosthesis as the basis for this engagement."
Alok Srivastava - Article in Journal of Generic Medicines
Low cost generic medicines and its socio-economic impact –an empirical study in India, September 16, 2025
Claudy Vouhé shared Publication
Corpus législatif sur la budgétisation sensible au genre (BSG), 2025 - French
"Legislative corpus on gender-responsive budgeting"
It relates strongly to the evaluation of public policies and gender equality by parliaments, as it is about Gender responsive budgeting.
Svetlana Negroustoueva shared Publication
Hooshmand Alizadeh Recently published book
now available from Springer.
Thank you Rituu and the whole community. A word about our questions:
1. Your name, gender and country
Jindra Cekan/ova, Female, USA and Czech Republic
2. How would you define ‘participation’ in evaluation? What does it mean for you?
It is the core of our work, those whom we listen to, our stakeholders (partners, participants)' views must be at the center of evaluation, for how does international development serve them better unless we listen?
3. Why was it your BEST experience in implementing participatory Evaluation?
SO many... Recently, doing a post-project sustainability evaluation (in Africa), one older, district government official whom we invited to the debrief (based on a core belief - leave learning local) said "no one has ever returned after any evaluation. Could you get us money to do such evaluations ourselves?"
4. Who commission this evaluation? ( government, NGO, funding agency etc)
NGO
5. Whom did you engage in evaluation? Why did you engage them? At what stage in evaluation?
Participants and partners, NGO staff, donors. We are all legs of the same sustainability stool.
6. What was the process or tools you used in participatory evaluation?
Qual (RRA- focus groups, key informant interviews) supplemented by Quant household survey (gender disaggregated) and Comparison groups
7. What worked and did not work, why?
I've come to see that qual answers 'why' but as the participants are self-selected, we need to get further feedback from random quant surveys for the fuller picture.
8. How did you address the challenges?
Sequencing is an issue - do we do the qual before the quant in sustainability evaluations (to shape the survey) or do we do it after to explain the survey findings? Both approaches have great value, it depends on what we know already...
9. What did you learn? How would you do it differently next time (approach, methodology, relation with stakeholders etc) ?
SO much to learn about how to evaluate sustained and emerging impact via post project evaluations! See more about SEIE at www.ValuingVoices.com
Much more to learn about what SDGs monitor and how attribute results, build national 'evaluative thinking' capacity... Thanks for asking!
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Thanks Jindra! I have put this as a response to the main discussion here http://gendereval.ning.com/forum/topics/query-your-best-experience-...
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