Decolonizing Evaluation
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The objective of this session is for participants to experience a range of perspectives on why decolonizing evaluation and evaluation systems is essential and how this affects their practice - whether they work in local, national or donor evaluation systems, whether they are commissioning, undertaking or using evaluation evidence. The session explores how a focus on decolonization helps to change power dynamics, increase the likelihood that systems and interventions are relevant to and support liberation of local people. It reflects the major changes needed for resilience in the face of the unfolding polycrisis and the need to transform evaluation, so it goes beyond the mental models and priorities of dominant economic and political forces. Participants will leave with actionable steps that they can apply in their practice.
Moderator(s)
Candice Morkel
Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR-AA)
Director
Candice Morkel (PhD) is the Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results – Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) and senior lecturer in Monitoring and Evaluation at Wits University. She has over 25 years’ experience in government, academia and the non-profit sector, specialising in development, M&E and public policy. As Director of CLEAR-AA, she works with governments and development partners across the African continent to help build better systems of evidence production and use. She has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and edited books on M&E, and supervises local and international Masters and PhD students in evaluation. She is a legacy Board Member of AfrEA, legacy chair of SAMEA and is currently a Board member of the International Evaluation Academy.
Ian Goldman
International Evaluation Academy (IEAc)
President
Ian is President of the International Evaluation Academy, an International Advisor on Evaluation/M&E and Evidence Systems, and an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town. He worked in the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa, where he established and ran the National Evaluation System to 2018 and was a founder of the Twende Mbele African M&E Partnership. Since 2018 Ian has been researching, training and consulting internationally in evidence use and evaluation systems, as well as on M&E for just transition. He advises on M&E with the South African Presidency, Global Evaluation Initiative, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, and Operation Vulindlela in South Africa, and is on the International Evaluation Academy and South African Parliamentary Institute Boards.
Presenter(s)
Andrealisa Belzer
Canadian Evaluation Society (CES)
President, Canadian Evaluation Society
Andrealisa Belzer is a Credentialed Evaluator employed with the Atlantic Region of Indigenous Services Canada. She serves as National President of the Canadian Evaluation Society. She also participates in the EvalPartners EvalIndigenous Network and the Global Advisory Council for Blue Marble Evaluation. Andrealisa has practiced health and social services evaluation since 1995, in Canada and internationally. She is committed to evaluative and decolonizing practice that facilitates systems transformation toward mutualism.
Hur Hassnain
International Evaluation Academy (IEAc)
Treasurer
Hur Hassnain (MDS, MBA) is an evaluation specialist, author, the founder of Pakistan Evaluation Association and treasurer at the International Evaluation Academy. Based in Brussels, Belgium, he is the senior evaluation specialist for the European Commission, DG INTPA and DG NEAR’s external service on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Design for External Action supporting the headquarter units, and about 96 EU Delegations around the world (since 2019). He has conducted and led evaluations for civil society, multilateral and bilateral development organizations in a range of thematic areas such as gender equality, education, rural development, agriculture, environment, and women’s economic empowerment. Hur has authored several internationally peer reviewed publications, including a book as lead author: Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence (2021) which presents an interesting argument that “evaluation” – like development aid itself – can unintentionally exacerbate tensions in ways that can negatively affect people and institutions if care is not taken in designing and approaching it with caution and sensitivity.
Nicole Bowman
Founder/ President, Bowman Performance Consulting
Associate Scientist and Evaluator, University of Wisconsin
Dr. Bowman, PhD, is a traditional Lunaape/Mohican woman in service to others at the intersection of truth, spirituality, traditional knowledge, sovereignty, governance, and evaluation. She’s been an active Indigenous community member for 40 years and an evaluator for over two decades. She is president of the award-winning Bowman Performance Consulting and an Associate Scientist/Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Bowman supports projects advancing Indigenous scholarship with Tribal/non-Tribal governments and philanthropic, non-profit, and organizations internationally. She is recognized in several associations including the American Evaluation Association, Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment, Internationally, she is a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society, leadership within EvalIndigenous, Co-creator of “Roots and Relations”, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Finally, Dr. Bowman is the Co-editor for the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, a special global issue with Dr. Bagele Chilisa.
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