Systems Thinking: prioritizing gender, marginalized voices and ecologies

Prioritizing gender, marginalized voices and ecologies.

What is your understanding of systems thinking?

We believe that systems thinking has a place in evaluation because it lets us think strategically about complexity and multiple intersectional influences that impact an intervention. What do you think?

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    Jolanda

    I support the statement; nevertheless I see systems thinking in evalaution is undermined by weak monitoring or thematic studies during implementation about context changes; viable information about position changes in decision making from household to institutional level is almost absent. Combined with the fact that research time for evaluation is too short causing from the start already  bias in geographic spreading, in actors included, time, etc

    Finally systems thinking is for most professionals to complex to handle and transform its results in daily work routine; so such an evaluation might dis empower the end user of the evaluation results.

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