Strategic planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research, Learning and Adaptation Founder and Executive Director
3DLab
Posted on 08/10/2022
Hi,
This is indeed a great conversation. To me, evaluation must be more than culture sensitive. It should be culture driven. Any evaluation in a given context should follow the way of thinking of the culture within which the evaluand belongs to.
Having experts from the community or involving the community members while using an « external » framework doesn’t make the evaluation culture sensitive.
We as evaluators have to learn how the culture generate and use knowledge.
At 3DLab, we have started consulting with knowledgeable people in our community to develop, I should say, to uncover the traditional frameworks of knowledge generation.
RE: The pervasive power of western evaluation culture: how and in what ways do you wrestle with ensuring evaluation is culturally appropriate and beneficial to those who legitimise development aid?
Senegal
Thierno Diouf
Strategic planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research, Learning and Adaptation Founder and Executive Director
3DLab
Posted on 08/10/2022
Hi,
This is indeed a great conversation. To me, evaluation must be more than culture sensitive. It should be culture driven. Any evaluation in a given context should follow the way of thinking of the culture within which the evaluand belongs to.
Having experts from the community or involving the community members while using an « external » framework doesn’t make the evaluation culture sensitive.
We as evaluators have to learn how the culture generate and use knowledge.
At 3DLab, we have started consulting with knowledgeable people in our community to develop, I should say, to uncover the traditional frameworks of knowledge generation.
I believe there is still more to do.
Rgds