Archibald Thomas, Sharrock Guy, Buckley Jane, Cook Natalie
Virginia Tech, Agricultural, Leadership, & Community Education (0343), Litton-Reaves Hall, Rm. 284, 175 West Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States.
Catholic Relief Services, 228W. Lexington Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States.
Eval Program Plann. 2016 Dec;59:119-127. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2016.05.015. Epub 2016 Jun 3.
Unexamined and unjustified assumptions are the Achilles' heel of development programs. In this paper, we describe an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help community development practitioners work more effectively with assumptions through the intentional infusion of evaluative thinking (ET) into the program planning, monitoring, and evaluation process. We focus specifically on one component of our ET promotion approach involving the creation and analysis of theory of change (ToC) models. We describe our recent efforts to pilot this ET ECB approach with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Ethiopia and Zambia. The use of ToC models, plus the addition of ET, is a way to encourage individual and organizational learning and adaptive management that supports more reflective and responsive programming.
未经审视且不合理的假设是发展项目的致命弱点。在本文中，我们描述了一种评估能力建设（ECB）方法，旨在通过将评估性思维（ET）有意融入项目规划、监测和评估过程，来帮助社区发展从业者更有效地应对各种假设。我们特别关注ET推广方法的一个组成部分，即变革理论（ToC）模型的创建与分析。我们介绍了最近在埃塞俄比亚和赞比亚与天主教救济服务社（CRS）试点这种ET ECB方法的工作。使用ToC模型，再加上ET，是鼓励个人和组织学习以及适应性管理的一种方式，有助于实现更具反思性和响应性的项目规划。
