Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social Development: Interpretive and Ethnographic PerspectivesStephen Bell, Peter Aggleton New approaches are needed to monitor and evaluate health and social development. Existing strategies tend to require expensive, time-consuming analytical procedures. The growing emphasis on results-based programming has resulted in evaluation being conducted in order to demonstrate accountability and success, rather than how change takes place, what works and why. The tendency to monitor and evaluate using log frames and their variants closes policy makers’ and practitioners’ eyes to the sometimes unanticipated means by which change takes place. |
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using consumer insight | |
a role for ethnography in evidencebased | |
an ethnographically inspired approach | |
Designing health and leadership programmes for vulnerable young women | |
new approaches to monitoring and improving | |
a case study of an HIV prevention | |
experience | |
using SenseMaker to assess the inclusion | |
The use of the Rapid PEER approach for the evaluation of sexual | |
Can qualitative research rigorously evaluate programme impact? Evidence | |