Evaluation for equitable Development Results

UNICEF, in partnership with UNDP, UNWomen, ILO, IDRC, IOCE, IDEAS and CONEVAL released the book "Evaluation for equitable development results" in March 2012. This new book complements the manual “How to design and implement Equity-focused evaluations” available at:http://www.mymande.org/?q=content/how-design-and-manage-equity-focused-evaluations

"Evaluation for equitable development results" aims to contribute to the international debate on how the evaluation function can contribute to achieving equitable development results by conceptualizing, designing, implementing and using evaluations focused on human rights and equity.  It does so by offering a number of strong contributions from 27 worlds-level experts and senior officers in institutions and governments dealing with development and evaluation. The authors also presented their contribution in a series of webinar, whose recording are available at:
http://www.mymande.org/?q=equity_focused_evaluation&x=cl

Please find below the table of content:

Prefaces:

• Colin Kirk, UNICEF, Director, Evaluation Office
   
• Soma de Silva and Jim Rugh, President and Vice President, IOCE
   
• Ray Rist, President, IDEAS
   

Part 1: Evaluation and equity

• Evaluation to accelerate progress towards equity, social justice and human rights.
  by Marco Segone, UNICEF Evaluation Office; Co-chair, UNEG Taskforce on National Evaluation Capacities; and former IOCE Vice President
   
• Human rights and gender equality in evaluation.
  by Janie Eriksen, UNICEF Evaluation Office, Shravanti Reddy, UNWomen Evaluation Office, and Janice Muir, OIOS; and members of UNEG Taskforce on Human Rights and Gender Equality
   
• When human rights is the starting point for evaluation.
  by Donna Mertens, Department of Educational Foundations and Research, Gallaudet University
   
• Strengthening Equity- focused evaluations through insights from feminist theory and approaches. 
  by Katherine Hay, Senior Specialist, Evaluation, International Development Research Centre, Regional Office for South Asia and China
   
• Decolonizing evaluation in a developing world. Implications and cautions for Equity-focused evaluations
  by Rodney K. Hopson, Duquesne University, Karen E. Kirkhart, Syracuse University and Katrina L. Bledsoe, Education Development Center, Inc
   

Part 2: Methodological implications for Equity-focused evaluations

• Methodological issues to design and implement equity-focused evaluations.
  by Michael Bamberger, Independent consultant
   
• Developmental evaluation for Equity-focused evaluations.
  by Michael Quinn Patton, Founder and Director, Utilization-focused evaluation
   
• Systems thinking and Equity-focused evaluations.
  by Martin Reynolds, independent consultant and Bob Williams, independent consultant
   
• Methodological challenges in using programme theory to evaluate pro-poor and equity-focused programmes
  by Patricia Rogers, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and Richard Hummelbrunner, Independent consultant
   
• Case Study and equity in Evaluation.
  by Saville Kushner, University of the West of England
   
• Values-Engaged Evaluations.
  by Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   

Part 3: Examples of Equity-focused evaluations

• Evaluating the contribution of UNDP to equity-focused public policies in Brazil and China.
  by Juha Uitto, Deputy Director, UNDP Evaluation Office and Oscar Garcia, Senior Evaluation Adviser, UNDP Evaluation Office
   
• Using a human rights approach to evaluate ILO’s discrimination strategy.
  by Francisco Guzman, Senior Evaluation Specialist, ILO Evaluation Office
   
• CONEVAL experience in evaluating interventions for Indigenous populations in Mexico.
  by Gonzalo Hernández, Thania de la Garza, María Fernanda Paredes and Brenda Valdez Meneses, Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social
   
• UNICEF supported evaluations with elements of equity-focused evaluations.