Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence : Dealing with Crises that Endanger Our Future

doi:10.1596/978-0-8213-9879-1

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Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence : Dealing with Crises that Endanger Our Future

dc.contributor.author	Boily, Marie-Helene
dc.contributor.author	Rist, Ray C.
dc.contributor.author	Martin, Frederic R.
dc.contributor.editor	Rist, Ray C.
dc.contributor.editor	Boily, Marie-Helene
dc.contributor.editor	Martin, Frederic R.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-24T19:25:31Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-24T19:25:31Z
dc.date.issued	2013-04-19
dc.description.abstract	The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but three critical areas presently being impacted means that long-held assumptions are no longer true, that the past is not prologue, and that the future is not clear. And enter into this unstable present the discipline of evaluation-a discipline formed and shaped in the past fifty years of stability, little turbulence, and strong assumptions that everything will go according to plan. If things do not go well, it is because of either a poor theory of change on how to bring about positive outcomes, or weak efforts at implementation. It is not because of the stormy present upsetting our quiet past. As it is, conventional evaluation behavior and beliefs are ill suited for these times. The transformational nature of the 'Arab Spring' is just one arena in which it is clear that a business as usual approach to evaluation is entirely inappropriate. The papers in this volume are from the 2011 Global Assembly of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS). Nearly 350 development evaluators from eighty-five countries came together in Amman, Jordan to discuss and analyze the consequences of turbulence on evaluation. The intent of these papers is to systematically assess what changes have come during this time of turbulence and how these changes are impacting the craft of development evaluation. To be clear: this book is not about how to assess the impacts of crises on development and on people's lives. It is about the meaning of a changed world and changed assumptions on the concepts and methods used in evaluation.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-0-8213-9879-1
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-8213-9879-1
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13265
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	broken assumptions
dc.subject	development evaluation
dc.subject	economic turbulence
dc.subject	evaluation discipline
dc.subject	evaluation methodology
dc.subject	evaluation theory
dc.subject	political turbulence
dc.subject	social turbulence
dc.title	Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence : Dealing with Crises that Endanger Our Future	en
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okr.date.disclosure	2013-04-24
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice	Governance
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-0-8213-9879-1
okr.identifier.report	77023
okr.language.supported	en
okr.theme	Public sector governance :: Other public sector governance
okr.theme	Social protection and risk management :: Poverty strategy, analysis and monitoring
okr.theme	Social dev/gender/inclusion :: Participation and civic engagement
okr.topic	Governance
okr.topic	Social Development::Civil Society
okr.topic	Social Development::Participations and Civic Engagement
okr.unit	Office of the Publisher (EXTOP)
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