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PADev

PADev. Participatory Assessment of Development as a method for assessing agencies Presented at the 10 th Biannual Conference of the European Evaluation Society, Helsinki. October 3, 2012 www.padev.nl Wouter Rijneveld and Fred Zaal. Contents. Brief introduction of PADev

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  1. PADev Participatory Assessment of Development as a method for assessing agencies Presented at the 10th Biannual Conference of the European Evaluation Society, Helsinki. October 3, 2012 www.padev.nl Wouter Rijneveld and Fred Zaal

  2. Contents • Brief introduction of PADev • Agency Assessment • Outcomes in Langbinsi, N-Ghana • Uses for this approach “Adding constituency voice to organizational assessment”

  3. What is PADev • Developed 2008-2012 universities, research institutes + NGOs from NL, Burkina Faso, Ghana • 4 rounds of fieldwork in 11 locations • Participatory workshops of 3 days

  4. Usual perspective in evaluation backdonor INGO • Activities • Results • Outputs • Outcomes • Impact • PM&E NGO Project a in community x

  5. Methodology PADev Projects Actors History History Community x Verypoor – poor – average – rich – veryrich History Changes in context

  6. 3 day workshops • 60 peoplefromarea of 20,000 • Subgroups: men, women, old, young(officials and project staff separate group) • Individuallifehistory questionnaire data aboutparticipants, parents, siblings, children (total 600 persons per workshop) • 4 rounds of 3 workshops each

  7. Exercises in PADev • Time line events • Changes in 25 years • Ethnography of wealth classes • Inventory of ‘projects’ • Best 5 / worst 5 • Impacts on wealth classes • Perceptions over time • Relation between changes and projects • Agency assessments

  8. Agency assessment • workshop Jan 2012 Langbinsi, North Ghana • Per subgroup major agencies identified (5-10) • Negotiated consensus per subgroup on six statements • Rating scale from ‘always’ to ‘usually not’ • Debriefing with the agencies

  9. Statements (derived from previous workshops)

  10. Overview • Most critical comments: • Participation (influence on type and manner of projects) • Honesty • Most positive: • Relevance • Long term commitment

  11. Per agency

  12. Per agency Sorted by overall score • Mentioned by more groups Mentioned by 1 group Blue = government White - NGO

  13. Some very popular NGOs • Rather good (e.g. Health) and rather poor government agencies (the more political the worse) • And some very small, very impopular NGOs • Biggest difference Govt-NGOs: honesty and realistic expectations

  14. Differences • Mostly NGO officials who rated • More positive than others about (their) NGOs, esp. about participation ( bias) • More convinced about relevance of Govt ( realistic view of what NGOs can and cannot do)

  15. Could be used when • Adds constituency voice to organizational assessment (OA) • Cannot replace other forms of OA • Provides positioning of organization relative to other agencies • 2 hours exercise, 3 hours of analysis • Careful of bias of just focusing on one organization

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