Article on merging developmental and feminist evaluation in April AJE

[Carol Miller]

http://aje.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/30/1098214015578731

Programs seeking to challenge and change gender and power relationships require a nimble, evolving monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system that helps make sense of how nonlinear complex social change happens. This article describes efforts by Oxfam Canada to develop such a system for a women’s rights and gender equality program. The system, which we call a feminist learning system (FLS), is an interconnected, nonlinear system that emerged over the program life cycle and responded to evaluative challenges and information needs we encountered along the way. The learning-oriented focus of the system differentiates it from more standard approaches to monitoring and evaluation. We situate the system within current evaluation thinking and research, arguing that it represents a merging of developmental evaluation and feminist evaluation. The synergistic fit of the two approaches provided an evaluative framework that strengthened Oxfam Canada’s ability to monitor, evaluate, and learn from our highly complex program. It also provided a lens that viewed MEL activities as part of a continuum of social transformation that reinforced programmatic goals related to women’s rights and gender equality.

[KALYANI MENON-SEN]

Hi Carol - good to see this piece - very useful - KALYANI

[Carol Miller]

Please contact me at [e-mail] and I will see what I can do.

Carol

[Rituu B Nanda]

Yes Michael and Sarita, we do not have access to the full article. 

[Sarita Ranchod]

Hi Rituu, I've tried these links and they only give us access to the abstract...

[Michael Alan Moore]

Rituu,

To access the site you have either to join the network or make a payment.

Best,

M

[Rituu B Nanda]

I have shared the article on our facebook page, Twitter and our group on bibliographic references http://gendereval.ning.com/group/bibliographic-references

Michael, try this link for Carol's article 

http://aje.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/30/1098214015578731

[Sarita Ranchod]

Hello, could you please share this article in a way that those of us who don't have journal access can still read it? There's either a link problem or it's closed access… It's only possible to see the abstract at present.

[Michael Alan Moore]

Carol,

Could you kindly check the link? I may the only one having difficulty opening it, so do apologise in advance if this is the case.

Best,

Michael