Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice?

1. Development Education Evaluation How to learn from practice? Brigitte Gaiffe Evaluator ITECO, Training Centre for développement

2. An approach to evaluation Society/Development Education Evaluation

3. Cross-fertilization • Adult education • Development education • Networking

4. Main findings from practice • Funders’ requirements for evaluation v. objective of learning from practice • Logical framework not adapted to needs and realities of DE • Little research about NGOs’ practice and benefits to stakeholders

5. Challenges • Need for specific methods and alternative approaches adapted to the development education actions • Reduce the gap between funders requirements and DE organizations’ needs for improvement • Funding for research on evaluation to face challenges

6. Tensions • Different visions of society, development education and evaluation: • Objectivity   Subjectivity • External   Internal • Results   Process • Control   Learning • Individual   Collective change

7. What to evaluate? • Coherence • Pertinence • Internal organisation • Effectiveness • Impact • Partnership

8. Conclusions • The same methods and tools are not valid at all levels of evaluation • Set priority to challenges and what is at stake for the future • The purpose and the aim of evaluation should guide the choice of the method

9. Some References • Segmented evaluation (Th. Desmedt-UCL) • Compass (ITECO) • Systematisation (O. Jara - Alforja) • Fields of objectives and evaluation levels (V. Dupriez - UCL) • Potentialisation (M. Hansotte - BIJ)