Applying Feminist Principles to Program Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

Wakefield, Shawna; Koerppen, Daniela

doi:10.21201/2017.9965

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“…Photography can also be understood as a dialogic process (Fairey & Orton, 2019). A further option for engaging service users/contributors in content generation is through the MEAL model (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning) (Wakefield & Koerppen, 2017).…”

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“The sweetest songs”—Ethical framing in fundraising through the agency of service users/contributors to tell their own stories

MacQuillin

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2022

Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing

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Much of the discussion on the ethics of the framing of service users in fundraising and marketing materials focuses on the ethical dilemma of whether the means of using negative framing and negatively-framed images-which it is argued are more effective at raising money-justify that end if they cause harm by stereotyping and "othering" the people so framed, rob them of their dignity, and fail to engage people in long-term solutions. Attempts to find the right balance between these two ethical poles have proved elusive. This paper posits a new ethical solution by removing these two poles from the equation and making the ethicality of fundraising frames contingent on the voice and agency of service users/contributors to tell their own stories and contribute to their own framing: as the Niger proverb says, "a song sounds

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confidence: 99%

“The sweetest songs”—Ethical framing in fundraising through the agency of service users/contributors to tell their own stories

MacQuillin

Crombie

Smyth³

2022

Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing

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“…However, a political take on this also recognizes that different actors in any situation will have varied ability and power to determine which forms of knowledge are likely to predominate. As such, as Wakefield and Koerppen (2017) and many other feminist scholars and practitioners note, MEL activities can both challenge and reinforce power relationships. This distinction and its implications are of particular relevance, given what has been described as the 'genderblind' nature of much political economy analysis and associated TWP programmes (Derbyshire et al, 2018).…”

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Monitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically

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This article explores the challenges of monitoring and evaluating politically informed and adaptive programmes in the international development field. We assess the strengths and weaknesses of some specific evaluation methodologies which have been suggested as particularly appropriate for these kinds of programmes based on scholarly literature and the practical experience of the authors in using them. We suggest that those methods which assume generative causality are particularly well suited to the task. We also conclude that factoring in the politics of uncertainty and evidence generation and use is particularly important in order to recognize and value diverse experiential knowledge, integrate understandings of the local context, accommodate adaptation and realistically grapple with the power relations which are inherent in evaluation processes.

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“…Our analysis in this paper is informed by a thematic analysis of the qualitative narratives from the proposals, surveys and follow up conversations. In reflecting on this qualitative data, JASS like other feminist organizations draws on a long scholarly and movement-based critique of outcome-based understanding of structural change that relies on linear before and after narratives of change to measure impact (see Brisolara et al, 2014 ; Sielbeck-Bowen et al, 2002 ; Wakefield & Koeppern, 2017 ). JASS understands the structural issues that movements respond to as complex, deep rooted and transforming these conditions requires multi-faceted, networked actions.…”

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Movement building responses to COVID-19: lessons from the JASS mobilisation fund

2021

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This article draws on the work of Just Associates (JASS), a feminist movement support organisation that strengthens the leadership and organising capacity of community-based women networks in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica, to transform the structures that perpetuate inequality and violence. We analyse qualitative interviews and surveys drawn from recipients of the JASS mobilisation fund (JMF), an innovative financial crisis support mechanism for feminist movements. We argue that localisation strategies deployed by women’s networks supported by the JMF in response to COVID-19, challenge dominant humanitarian responses that de-centre feminist movements, local knowledge, and expertise. By accounting for local knowledge generated from long histories of movement building, building collective power, and challenging racialised and gendered responses to humanitarian crises, women’s collectives and networks supported through the JMF developed contextually relevant responses that challenge patriarchal structural barriers heightened by COVID-19.

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Applying Feminist Principles to Program Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

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“The sweetest songs”—Ethical framing in fundraising through the agency of service users/contributors to tell their own stories

“The sweetest songs”—Ethical framing in fundraising through the agency of service users/contributors to tell their own stories

Monitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically

Movement building responses to COVID-19: lessons from the JASS mobilisation fund

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