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AbstractIn describing the efforts of CARE International, this chapter demonstrates how nongovernmental organizations have begun to set their own evaluation standards.
Sergey Ivanets, director of the department of international integration at the Ministry of Education and Science, talks about the specifics of the evaluation procedures for inviting leading scientists (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated April 9, 2010, N 220: "On Measures for Attracting Leading Scientists into Russian Higher Professional Educational Institutions")
One of the most important features of an evaluation is measuring the success of an intervention. In evaluations of development cooperation, this assessment has been guided by the internationally established evaluation criteria of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC) since the early 1990s. The OECD DAC has now updated the evaluation criteria for the first time with the intention of creating "better criteria for better evaluation".
In: Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge: débat humanitaire, droit, politiques, action = International Review of the Red Cross, Band 80, Heft 832, S. 725
AbstractDemand for evaluators in the international development evaluation field is high and opportunities for rewarding work abound. Yet, as part of their activities, evaluation consultants working internationally must constantly grapple with divides of geography, language, culture, gender, privilege, and power. This chapter presents the international consultant profile and context on evaluation in international development. The authors discuss common competencies used and required by international evaluation consultants. A discussion covers the different boundaries, or divides, that consultants must navigate, and how overcoming them is a way of building bridges and trust, increasing the effectiveness of evaluations in international settings, and enhancing evaluators' practice, both professionally and personally. The authors present multiple examples of sociocultural and politically sensitive circumstances to illustrate divides previously encountered. They draw on 30 years of experience in international development and evaluation in over fifty countries across six continents.
Zu den wesentlichen Merkmalen einer Evaluierung gehört es, den Erfolg einer Maßnahme zu bewerten. In Evaluierungen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) orientiert sich diese Bewertung bereits seit Anfang der 1990er-Jahre an den international etablierten Evaluierungskriterien des Entwicklungsausschusses der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD-DAC). Mit dem Anspruch, "bessere Kriterien für bessere Evaluierungen" zu schaffen, wurden die sogenannten DAC-Kriterien nun erstmals reformiert.
"This book is a core text for all students in environmental assessment, land use planning, environmental science, environmental management, development studies, geography, landscape design and law and engineering. It is also essential reading for all governments and environmental regulators, academics, researchers and environmental and planning consultants worldwide who are involved in SEA research, practice and training."--Jacket.
