Seminar on project monitoring and evaluation
[DVLP2651]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Philippe De Leener, Philippe De Leener
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- capable to understand the scope and the stakes of a project evaluation activity
- capable to conceive, formulate, design but also carry out and document an evaluation intervention as a pro-cess in the field of development in finely fitting to complex socioeconomic and political contexts
- capable to carry out an evaluation action as a means to innovate with special regards to project teams
- capable to produce one's own tools and resources
- capable to creatively critical (carrying out an evaluation in view of supporting social and political change, both at micro and macro levels)
Main themes
- conceptual frames of evaluation
- the evaluation as a living and rather unpredictable open-ended process
- the evaluation as a complex scene of interacting stakeholders especially with regards to power relationships and respective interests at play
- evaluating the development action
- evaluating the institutional arrangement
- evaluating within the framework of NPRS plans (National Poverty Reduction Strategy): critical approach
- main keys to understand the project development sphere from within
- evaluating as a social practice
- practicing the evaluation in real project life situations
- critical review of traditional approaches and possible alternative paths
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
A personal preferably professional experience of the development world is highly rec-ommended
Written examination and practical application
An diversified and extended set of papers, mainly original reports of recent real life evaluation, will be provided according to the specific issues and questions raised during the course
Course texts of courses OPES 2116, OPES 2160 and OPES 2170