Many thanks for the response. This is what I like about EvalForward, it gives us an open platform to talk about many things.
I guess that I only somewhat agree with what you say, because my thinking is that the future evaluations should take a broader approach than what we normally do.
I would like to quote my friend Zenda Ofir focusing on DAC criteria, as we both honestly believe that DAC criteria need a face lift and argue that time is up for changes of the old with new thinking.
Zenda says "yes, we can have ‘top-down’, ‘bottom-up’ or ‘up-and-down’ interventions and strategies. But we need to be much more aware of the realities within which we should aim to make a difference".
Also she says that "We are working ourselves into a technocratic, simplistic notion of development, humanitarian work and evaluation that makes us increasingly irrelevant for that which matters now.
Yes, it is in part the result of the political economy in which we work. But we are not that powerless to change key aspects of our work. It is a matter of will and conviction".
RE: The issues facing global agriculture
Dear Bintou,
Many thanks for the response. This is what I like about EvalForward, it gives us an open platform to talk about many things.
I guess that I only somewhat agree with what you say, because my thinking is that the future evaluations should take a broader approach than what we normally do.
I would like to quote my friend Zenda Ofir focusing on DAC criteria, as we both honestly believe that DAC criteria need a face lift and argue that time is up for changes of the old with new thinking.
Zenda says "yes, we can have ‘top-down’, ‘bottom-up’ or ‘up-and-down’ interventions and strategies. But we need to be much more aware of the realities within which we should aim to make a difference".
Also she says that "We are working ourselves into a technocratic, simplistic notion of development, humanitarian work and evaluation that makes us increasingly irrelevant for that which matters now.
Yes, it is in part the result of the political economy in which we work. But we are not that powerless to change key aspects of our work. It is a matter of will and conviction".
http://zendaofir.com/updating-the-DAC-criteria-part-10/.
Best regards
Isha