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Questions about rigour, validity and credibility are central concerns of all evaluation practice. So too should be how we pay attention to meaningful participation to enable greater equity, especially when embracing complexity and seeking to achieve systems change.
Yet many evaluators and programme implementers experience a trade-off between on the one hand practicing methodological fidelity and safeguarding narrow notions of rigour and, on the other, contextualising and adapting methods to allow space for the questions, experiences, and values of multiple stakeholders to shape evaluation as a co-owned inquiry into how change happens. But what if there was a way to practice in the spaces in between, and identify opportunities for meaningful participation and valid causal inference to become mutually reinforcing?
Join us for a conversation about how we are inquiring into such bright spots through applying the inclusive rigour framework in peacebuilding evaluation. The Inclusive Co-Lab will present the framework published in the journal Evaluation.
Speakers
- Alamoussa Dioma, MEL practitioner with expertise in peacebuilding and participatory, complex-aware methodologies which he implements in the field in Mali. His background and MSc in Educational Science informs his MEL practice and his capacity building ability, which he does at organisational and team levels.
- Angela Maria Baez Silva Arias, an MA in cultural biology, is an expert in complexity and development and leads work on systemic action research and systemic methodologies for Adapt Peacebuilding and other organisations in Colombia.
- Marina Apgar is a human ecologist with interest in complexity science and inequality and conducts evaluation research on complexity-aware and participatory evaluation methods as a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. She is the co-director of the Centre for Development Impact.
- Dr. Thania Paffenholz, Director and Founder of Inclusive Peace. She has published widely and has been actively engaged in more than 20 peace processes working for international organizations, think tanks and universities, as well as an advisor for international organisations, governments, and NGOs.
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