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Evaluating Communication for Development : a Framework for Social Change.
Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and eval...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Evaluating Communication for Development A framework for social change; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; The need for the framework; Communication for development; C4D in the United Nations; Evaluation; Social change; Participation; Participation and sustainability; Origins of the framework and its principles; Development of the principles and framework; Ensuring rigour in evaluation and sustainable development; How the book is organized; 2 Framework for evaluating communication for development.
- Overview of the frameworkThe framework components in more detail; Comparison with other frameworks and approaches; Conclusion; 3 New thinking and trends; Challenges in moving beyond dominant approaches to evaluating C4D; The value of systems and complexity approaches to evaluation; A systems perspective; Complexity theory; Distinguishing between simple, complicated and complex problems; Critical approaches to understanding and evaluating social change; A focus on power relations, gender and social norms; Conclusion; 4 Challenges, issues and strategies; Context and structure.
- Institutional and country-level challengesAttitudes and policies of funders and management; Challenges in conceptualizing, outsourcing and managing research and evaluation; Challenges in assessing impacts and outcomes of C4D; Overcoming the challenges: key trends in C4D evaluation; New conceptualizations of evaluation and shifts in evaluation practice; Conclusion; 5 Evaluation capacity development; Understanding and defining evaluation capacity development; The need for an alternative approach to evaluation capacity development; Towards a holistic approach to evaluation capacity development.
- A holistic approach to organizational capacity developmentThe value of participatory methodologies for evaluation capacity development; Challenges and issues in evaluation capacity development; Strategies for effective and sustainable evaluation capacity development; Conclusion; 6 Key approaches, methodologies and methods; Definitions of key terms; Key approaches and methodologies for evaluating C4D; Key C4D evaluation methods; Indicators; Conclusion; 7 Conclusion and implementation; Key features and bene.ts of the framework for evaluating C4D; Challenges, issues and contradictions.
- Strategies proposed to address these challenges and issuesImplementing the framework for evaluating C4D; Looking to the future; References; Index.