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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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If evaluators behave like auditors!

I had the great pleasure today of attending a wonderful webinar on adapting evaluations during the COVID pandemic. I especially enjoyed a very inspiring presentation by our very own Rituu and her exchanges with us. Here a few insights and lessons from her discussion:

Key points (from my perspective):
  • If evaluators behave like auditors they will be perceived as such.
  • A truly participatory evaluative process creates, especially for funders, commissioners and managers, time and space to reflect, exchange, learn; in other words, evaluative thinking.
  • The fundamental evaluation question is, or should be, about the impact on (I would say value for) the community despite the fact that this may not be the commissioner’s question; this is what is meant by independent evaluation. (autonomy of evaluative judgment is another aspect).
  • “NGOs were much better at it because they lived through it”. Yes! Lived experience is a deep, rich and meaningful source of knowledge and wisdom. If you eliminate that source ,e.g., by way of “standards of evidence” among others, we are not only cutting ourselves off from knowledge and wisdom (which come adapted to context) but we are adding to disenfranchisement (including to ourselves).
  • The ethics of sharing data is a wonderful opportunity to engage with ourselves as so-called evaluators and I think that participatory analysis is absolutely fundamental to participatory processes and to empowerment.
  • I love, and think, that evaluation should be about, “dreaming up ways to shift power”.

Thank you so much Rituu!

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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on June 15, 2021 at 20:14

Corey Oser's learning from the same participatory review

1. NUMBERS TELL PART OF THE STORY
2. PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION is WORTH it
3. STORIES R EVIDENCE
4. INDIVIDUAL JOURNEYS r PART OF ORG CHANGE
5. TRANSFORMATION DEEPER THAN SUSTAINABILITY
Comment by Fabiola Amariles on June 2, 2021 at 23:58

Great insights, Ian. Thanks for sharing.

I could not attend Rituu´s presentation because it overlapped with another one.  Is there any video available? 

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