Marc Tevini's Posts - Gender and Evaluation2024-03-28T15:32:28ZMarc Tevinihttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/MarcTevini559https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3766953336?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2r70pyurb0rao&xn_auth=noWhat matters in our work as evaluators ? Interview of Donna Mertenstag:gendereval.ning.com,2020-03-25:6606644:BlogPost:936762020-03-25T16:30:00.000ZMarc Tevinihttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/MarcTevini559
<p><span class="ember-view" id="ember969"><span>Last year in Paris, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-tevini/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Marc Tevini*</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenza-bennani/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kenza Bennani**</a> and a chance to interview Donna Mertens about the transformative approach in evaluation, how to face the climate change issue, the dead angles in evaluation and the role of emerging evaluators.…</span></span></p>
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<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>Last year in Paris, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-tevini/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marc Tevini*</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenza-bennani/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kenza Bennani**</a> and a chance to interview Donna Mertens about the transformative approach in evaluation, how to face the climate change issue, the dead angles in evaluation and the role of emerging evaluators.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ember-view"><span><span id="ember969" class="ember-view">▶ The full interview is available here :</span> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://lnkd.in/d9Cswcp" id="ember973" class="feed-shared-text-view__hyperlink ember-view" name="ember973">https://lnkd.in/d9Cswcp</a> <span id="ember977" class="ember-view">& on Twitter here :</span> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://lnkd.in/d-QaQmw" id="ember981" class="feed-shared-text-view__hyperlink ember-view" name="ember981">https://lnkd.in/d-QaQmw</a></span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>Here's a glimpse of it :</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>▶ What matters in our work as evaluators is to raise up issues</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>▶ In a way that sheds light on the change needed in programs and policies</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>▶ There is rigorous scientific evidence that climate change is an issue</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>▶ A good evaluator should be critically reflective about such an oppressive issue</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>▶ We have to be ethical and honest about the values underpinning a program or policy</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ember969" class="ember-view"><span>▶ We have to play the most important role of an evaluator, which is to ask provocative questions</span></span></p>
<p>Fell free to watch it, share and comment !</p>
<p>* Marc Tevini is a partner and consultant in evaluation at Quadrant Conseil. Since 2018, he has founded and led the thematic group of young emerging evaluators (JEEunes) within the French Evaluation Society. Marc is developing a research interest around evaluation processes carried out by non-evaluation practitioners, namely activist evaluations.</p>
<p>** Kenza Bennani is an evaluation manager with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate General for International Development). A political scientist by training, she has 9 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, combining evaluation, management consulting and communications roles. She is a Board Member of IDEAS representing the Middle East and North Africa, as well as a co-leader of the Réseau Francophone des Evaluateurs Emergents (RF-Eé) and the co-convenor of the French Evaluation Society Working Group for Young and Emerging Evaluators (JEEunes).</p>Are activist organisations the new evaluation agencies?tag:gendereval.ning.com,2019-12-12:6606644:BlogPost:917162019-12-12T16:30:00.000ZMarc Tevinihttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/MarcTevini559
<p>Dear Gender and Evaluation members,</p>
<p>I am glad to share with you the abstract below, to engage the discussion with you about evaluations made by activist organisations, and eventually feminist organisations. The full article is so far only available in French. If you want to have a look, please contact me. Looking forward to read your reactions! </p>
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<p><em><span>When and to what extent can activist organisation reports be considered as evaluations?</span></em></p>
<p>Have…</p>
<p>Dear Gender and Evaluation members,</p>
<p>I am glad to share with you the abstract below, to engage the discussion with you about evaluations made by activist organisations, and eventually feminist organisations. The full article is so far only available in French. If you want to have a look, please contact me. Looking forward to read your reactions! </p>
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<p><em><span>When and to what extent can activist organisation reports be considered as evaluations?</span></em></p>
<p>Have you ever asked Greenpeace or Amnesty International whether they consider their reports to be policy evaluations? We did, and the answer was mostly negative.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, we've observed that activist reports appear to increasingly use an evidence-based process of assessing public interventions’ effectiveness, utility and relevance, using their own criteria. <span>In our view, identifying such reports raises several questions: are activist authors interested in public policy evaluation standards,</span> <span>or would they rather maintain their independence from these? Additionally, to what extent can evidence-based approaches be used in lobbying and advocacy purposes?</span></p>
<p>Hence, <span>this paper examines whether these activist reports, often dismissed as ideologically-motivated position papers, can actually be considered as credible public policy evaluations. More generally, when and to what extent do activist organisations evaluate public policies? To answer these questions</span>, we decided to assess four reports by activist organisations using evaluation standards, in order to identify evaluation processes which lie outside of public demand and have an explicit activist goal.</p>
<p>The standards were materialised through an analytical grid composed of 13 items, organised around the four following components: 1) the publication should have the explicit intention of examining the results of a public action, 2) its methodology and sources should be clearly stated in order to guarantee the quality of the analysis. 3) the given intervention is judged according to evaluation criteria, and 4) the activist dimension of the publication is explicitly stated.</p>
<p><span>Overall, 7 activist-specific ways to judge public policies using an evidence-based process were identified - and Evaluators might find inspiration from them.</span></p>