I read with a lot of interest your post on Likedin titled: "Evaluation Recommendations: What are the requirements?" <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/recommandations-dune-evaluation-quelles-en-sont-les-armel-h-oguniyi/>". The post provides very useful guidance for both evaluation practitioners and users. It highlights the strategic aspect of the roles and expectations of key stakeholders throughout the evaluation process, particularly in the development of recommendations. He also highlighted a critical aspect in presenting the recommendations, namely explaining the challenges associated with implementation.
Thank you for sharing tools and samples of reports.
I would like to share my experiences of using visuals in program processes, whether during development or reporting.
As the monitoring and evaluation specialist for the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Program on the elimination of female genital mutilation, there was an attempt to use visuals to illustrate the theory of change for phase IV (Theory of change - Draft Mockup), but also for the development of a series of documents as part of the Annual Report 2020: UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Program on FGM - 2020 Annual Report.
This is indeed a great conversation. To me, evaluation must be more than culture sensitive. It should be culture driven. Any evaluation in a given context should follow the way of thinking of the culture within which the evaluand belongs to.
Having experts from the community or involving the community members while using an « external » framework doesn’t make the evaluation culture sensitive.
We as evaluators have to learn how the culture generate and use knowledge.
At 3DLab, we have started consulting with knowledgeable people in our community to develop, I should say, to uncover the traditional frameworks of knowledge generation.
There seem to be two discussions or similar related issues being discussed; or maybe I'm confused because of the two threads.
For me, it's first of all being on the same page when discussing concepts but above all, putting them into perspective. What do the concepts of neutrality, impartiality and independence mean for evaluators, evaluation managers and users, for beneficiaries? As both may not have the same culture, and they may also not use the same knowledge generation framework, all these concepts may have different meanings.
Therefore, the "decolonization" of evaluation theories and frameworks will be crucial for the use of these concepts and their interpretation.
Thierno Diouf
Strategic planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research, Learning and Adaptation Founder and Executive Director 3DLabDear Adéléké,
I read with a lot of interest your post on Likedin titled: "Evaluation Recommendations: What are the requirements?"
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/recommandations-dune-evaluation-quelles-en-sont-les-armel-h-oguniyi/>".
The post provides very useful guidance for both evaluation practitioners and users. It highlights the strategic aspect of the roles and expectations of key stakeholders throughout the evaluation process, particularly in the development of recommendations. He also highlighted a critical aspect in presenting the recommendations, namely explaining the challenges associated with implementation.
Best regards
Thierno