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Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, this unique book offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can be undertaken in the real world of time, budget, data, and political constraints. Introductory chapters present comprehensive, non-technical overviews of the most common evaluation tools and methodologies, and additional content addresses more cutting-edge material. The book also includes six case study chapters to illustrate examples of various evaluation contexts from around the world.
Gender Equality in Development Evaluation : The Intersection of Complexities
Gender Equality in Development Evaluation : The Intersection of Complexities
Development programs that seek to transform gender norms, enhance equality between women and men, and end violence against women are inherently complex. Their evaluations thus need to make sense of this complexity in order to establish whether they contribute to intricate change processes. Moreover, all development projects are laden with gender dimensions, and complexity-responsive evaluations should also be gender-responsive. This chapter begins with a discussion of complexity from a gender equality perspective. It then lays out various methodological developments in gender-responsive evaluations. Section 3 discusses the institutional and operational challenges that such evaluations face and proposes avenues to overcome these challenges. ...
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