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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

Claudy Vouhé shared Publication

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.

Events

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10 Lessons on How to Engage Parliamentarians and the Wider Public on the Use of Evaluation Results

November 20 and 21, 2019, were marked by the 14th #EvalNet meeting. During the event, delegates discussed how critical can evaluation be in the age of fake news, political propaganda, and social media manipulation. In this blog post, I describe 10 lessons I learned  from #EvalNet14 members on how to engage parliamentarians and the wider public on the use of evaluation results:

How to Engage Parliamentarians and the Wider Public on the Use of Evaluation Results

(1) Be transparent about what works and to be fact-based.

(2) Be accessible to the general public, dealing with technical language, while raising awareness on the complexity of development cooperation.

(3) Prepare policymakers in advance and help them think through recommendations, ensuring there are no big surprises — “You manage your mistakes or your mistakes will manage you”

(4) Share evidence with all sites of the political spectrum.

(5) Be concrete and specific when communicating results.

(6) Disclose all evaluation information, do not cherry-pick the most attractive and convenient data.

(7) Listening is part of the communication effort, do not only speaking.

(8) There are different communication needs. We must use different communication tools tailored to the audience.

(9) Invest in education, building the M&E capacity of government officials, parliamentarians, and the general public.

(10) Evaluate evidence communication.

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Comment by Arwa b on November 26, 2019 at 13:22

Thank you.

I think  most  of these lessons  we can use to engage parliamentarians and public in any committee and public issue.

It will be great to know more about engaging the parliamentarians in  (using) the evaluation results, waiting for the outcome of this experience. 

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