Evaluation in Practice

FIRST MILE FIRST INCH EVALUATION

Next steps

Shorter and Longer term

• To plan and implement the evaluation CM to forward funding proposal to IDRC

• To develop capacities in evaluation in your project/organisation. Essential to create awareness of OM for intentional desin with other partners on evaluation

• To document share & innovate on approaches to evaluate ICT4D. To contribute to dissemination and learning

Uses

• Inform project 2 (Adel)
• Strengthen implementation in that project
• Strengthen usefulness of new approaches/validate out comes

Users

• Meraka
• IDRC
• Project 2
• Other networking projects
• Other technical projects with social outcomes

Evaluation Question

To what extent did the capacity of individual partners grow in FMFI

Methodologies

1. OM outputs – desk research, interviews
2. MSC

Rationale

1. Behaviour changes in the use of social research
2. MSC – to validate OM

Buzz Group – OM
1) General aspects that you find appealing:

• Common vocabulary
• Allows project to describe success/failure and unintended consequences
• Strong visioning

2) General aspects you find challenging or that are not yet clear:

• Only observational, not quantitative
• Analytical skills to use data
• Workload

3) Pressing questions or comments in relation to if / how the approach may be practically applied in your project context:

• Use on best supplement with quantitative measures – How to link evaluation questions to OM

Buzz Group – MSC

1) General aspects that you find appealing:

• Grounded
• Seeking the unexpected
• Non-evaluators can connect and select

2) General aspects you find challenging or that are not yet clear:

• Consensus building on which stories

3) Pressing questions or comments in relation to if / how the approach may be practically applied in your project context:

• Connecting this to the other methodologies
• What is the entry framework to these methodologies

Buzz Group – GEM
1) General aspects that you find appealing:

• Presents gender analysis through the use of ICTs

2) General aspects you find challenging or that are not yet clear:

• Too quantitative
• Accident not design
• Need same capacity building around gender evaluation

3) Pressing questions or comments in relation to if / how the approach may be practically applied in your project context:

• How to retrofit GEM into a FMFI plan
• GEM had a natural bias that we are trying to implement in a development context