Speaking justice to power : ethical and methodological challenges for evaluators
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Speaking justice to power : ethical and methodological challenges for evaluators
（Comparative policy evaluation series, v. 21）
Transaction Publishers, c2014
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Description
Efficiency, economy, and equity are policy goals pursued by governments around the world, but analysts and evaluators have devoted more effort to measuring and evaluating the first two. In Speaking Justice to Power, contributors examine the concept of equity, the role it plays, and its application in policy evaluation.
Here some of the most valuable thinkers in the area of policy studies address key questions: How should evaluators develop criteria for measuring equity as they analyze both program and policy implementation as well as their impacts? What distinctions among people should be taken into account when measuring and valuing impacts? What sorts of data should be used to analyze processes and impacts in different settings? How might such data be validated?
The contributors employ grounded-theory thinking as they translate key ethical principles into their work and draw important lessons from their experiences. The work discusses equity in interventions addressing a variety of social and environmental problems. This volume continues the fine tradition of Transaction's Comparative Policy Evaluation series.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Kathryn Newcomer
1. Introduction
Kim Forss and Mita Marra
Part I: Equity in Theory: Implications for Evaluation
2. Thinking about Equity: From Philosophy to Social Science
Mita Marra and Kim Forss
3. How Much Equity Do We Need? A Decision-Making Tool Reconciling Utilitarian and Rawlsian Approaches to Collective Efficiency
Barbara Befani
4. Inequality, Institutions, and Change-The Case of Senegal
Jens Andersson
Part II: Equity in Evaluation Approaches: Challenges for Evaluators
5. Renewing Democratic Evaluation-The Case of a Progressive Evaluation Model
Robert Picciotto
6. Beyond Feminist and Gender-Based Approaches: Evaluating Cooperation between Men and Women for Gender Equity
Mita Marra
7. Equity versus (Gender) Equality: Complexities and Implications in Programming, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Lydia Ruprecht and Sara Callegari
8. Using Th eories of Reach to Enhance Equity Considerations in Evaluation
John Mayne
9. Achieving Equality at Scale through System Transformation: Evaluating System Change
Tom Ling
10. Monitoring Equity and the Evaluation of Equity Monitoring Systems
Peter Wilkins
Part III: Equity in Program Evaluation: Lessons Learnt
11. Supporting Vulnerable Communities to Adapt to Climate Change: Defi ning Vulnerability and Evaluating Outcomes
Alison Pollard
12. Evaluations of the Impact of Fair Trade on Development: Th e Case of Coffee
Steve Jacob
13. Impact for Whom? Analyzing and Valuing the Distribution of Benefi ts from Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions
Kim Forss
14. Evaluating Equity within a Heterogeneous Group: The Challenges Faced by Child Rights Programming and Their Evaluation
Ananda S. Millard
15. Getting Good Data to Evaluate Employment Equity Initiatives: An Example from Canada
Maria Barrados
16. Equity-Oriented Interventions and Defining the Populations of Aboriginal Peoples and National Minorities: Experiences from Sweden, Canada, and Australia
Maria Barrados, Kim Forss, and Peter Wilkins
Contributors
Index
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