Practitioner Perceptions of Evaluation in Small Non-Profits
This chapter explores practitioners’ perceptions regarding evaluation and evaluators, bearing in mind community development aspirations and the advantages and constraints facing these small organisations. Cognisant of the first community development stand
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Evaluation in Small Development Non-Profits “Leanne Kelly is a ‘pracademic’: she moves between evaluation practice and academia and this book builds a bridge. Her incisive analysis of model-based and expert-led evaluation practices in NGOs reveals the evidence that these practices do little for learning and improving work with communities across the world. Kelly’s reflections on these evaluation practices underpin practical suggestions for a more context-sensitive informal approach to evaluation that centres on learning from local complexity and a simplified upward accountability. Kelly’s book echoes the tale of ‘The emperor’s new clothes’. First, she points out that while funders and professionals claim evaluation will shape and accentuate the body of a continuously improving practice of NGOs, actual practice moves forward without wearing a thread of evaluation. Second, Kelly convincingly shows that easy, useful, appropriate and fitting evaluation is not a delicate dress woven by visiting experts, but an apron tied by rigorous informal reflection among peers.” —Gerard Prinsen, Senior Lecturer Development Studies, Massey University, New Zealand
Leanne M. Kelly
Evaluation in Small Development Non-Profits Deadends, Victories, and Alternative Routes
Leanne M. Kelly Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University Geelong, VIC, Australia
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This book is dedicated to everyone who works in and with small non
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