The added value of a collaborative, multi-perspective team approach to multi-country evaluations

Nash Tysmans, Sara Dewachter, Nathalie Holvoet, Tewelde Gebremariam Adhanom, Wanda Casten, Eshetu Woldeyohannes Demissie, Marian Kaye C. Gamboa, Abdurahman Hamza Ibrahim, Hezron Makundi, Grachel Manguni, Georgina Angela Manyuru, Nicholas Mugabi, Yahya E. Nawanda, Chau Hoai Nguyen, William Amos Pallangyo, Rose Pascual-Villar, Luz Prado Saavedra, Mariluz Torres Salgado, Anh Ngoc Vu, Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel and Eva Wuyts

No 2023.01, IOB Working Papers from Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy (IOB)

Abstract: Using a collaborative, multi-perspective team approach to evaluate the impact of a development studies’ programme is beneficial for learning, accountability, and the evaluation process itself. The local-in-global approach enables to combine culturally responsive localized evaluation with global tools to make findings locally grounded yet comparable across different settings. Accountability is broadened beyond the host country’s taxpayers and the scholarship agency to include stakeholders in the South, creating a multi-loci accountability pattern. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps and inequities in global evaluation relations and this article, aligned with ongoing debates on decolonizing evaluation, provides food for thought for reconceptualizing local-global evaluation relations.

Keywords: collaborative evaluation; multi-country; local-in-global; culturally responsive evaluation; multi-perspectivity; alumni (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2023-01
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