AEA 2010 MIE Interest Workshops
Session 30. Identifying, Naming, Measuring and Interpreting Racism in Contexts of Evaluations
Historically, racism has been a contributing factor to the racial disparities that persist across contemporary society. This workshop will help you to identify, frame, and measure racism's presence. The workshop includes strategies for removing racism from various evaluation processes, as well as ways to identify types of racism that may influence the contexts in which racial disparities and other societal programs operate.
Through mini-lectures, discussion, small group exercises, and handouts, we will apply workshop content to real society problems such as identifying racial biases that may be embedded in research literature, identifying the influence of racism in the contexts of racial disparities programs, and eliminating inadvertent racism that may become embedded in cross-cultural research. This workshop will help you to more clearly identify, frame, measure, interpret, and lessen the presence of racism in diverse settings.
You will learn:
- Strategies for removing/averting racism's presence in evaluation processes;
- Common places where racism may hide and influence the context of programs and problems;
- Naming, defining, framing and employing strategies for using the Brooks Equity Typology (BET) for collecting data on racism;
- How to collect five broad types of data concerning racism as a variable;
- Strategies for collecting data on eight of the several dozen types of racism described in contemporary cross-disciplinary English-language research literature.
Pauline Brooks is an evaluator and researcher by formal training and practice. She has had years of university-level teaching and evaluation experience in both public and private education, particularly in the fields of education, psychology, social work and public health. For over 20 years, she has worked in culturally diverse settings focusing on issues pertaining to underserved populations, class, race, gender, and culture.
Session 30: Racism in Evaluation
Prerequisites: Openness to exploring issues of context, setting, process, and approaches as they relate to inequalities
Scheduled: Wednesday, November 10, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Level: Intermediate
51. Session 51.Hearing Silenced Voices: Using Visual Methods to Include Traditionally Disenfranchised Populations in Evaluation
While evaluators understand the importance of multiple stakeholder perspectives, many struggle with how to ensure the participation of those traditionally ‘without a voice,’ vulnerable or disenfranchised populations. Children and youth, persons with disabilities, or those having emerging literacy in the majority language(s) hold important views regarding the programs, services, and situations which affect them, but their perspectives are not always included.
This workshop will be grounded in theory, but will be highly participatory and interactive. Stemming from a rights-based approach, the workshop will explore the why and how of including traditionally disenfranchised populations in evaluation. Through their work in Canada and numerous countries in Europe, the facilitators will share a variety of visually-based techniques and how these can be coupled with more traditional methods. Participants will be introduced to the use of drawing, icons, photography, and mapping, as tools for eliciting often-silenced voices. Ethical considerations will also be discussed.
You will learn:
- To identify methods that will give voice to populations traditionally disenfranchised or disconnected from evaluation;
- To use a variety of visual methods;
- To apply ethical and practical considerations to their evaluation processes.
Linda Lee, Proactive Information Services Inc, has facilitated professional development workshops in the area of evaluation for over 25 years both in North American and internationally.
Session 51: Hearing Silenced Voices
Prerequisites: Experience with qualitative methods; Experience conducting evaluations that involve traditionally disenfranchised or marginalized populations
Scheduled: Sunday, November 14, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Level: Intermediate
Session 52. Participatory Program Implementation Tools That Lay the Foundation for Evaluation: Practical Participatory Processes and Tools for Evaluators, and M&E Personnel
Participatory program implementation tools lend themselves well to laying a foundation for conducting participatory evaluations along the program cycle. This session will show you how to use two tools employed under the Participatory Action for Community Enhancement (PACE) Methodology for program implementation and adapt them to broader evaluation settings.
The first tool is a facilitated exercise to assess the relationship, expectations, and challenges a program team faces in working with key stakeholder groups under their program. The second tool is an exercise that looks at the "micro-politics" of a program to identify social factors such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, or tribalism, define them from the participant's perspective and determine the role they play in program implementation. The facilitator will walk you through the actual exercises and carry out a debrief at the end of each to clarify questions on how to conduct the exercises, and to identify ways the tools could be adapted to the your needs.
You will learn:
- How to apply the Social Factors Analysis exercise with a group of stakeholders to identify and analyze the social factors (gender, class, race, ethnicity, or tribalism) at play in a particular program context;
- How to apply the "The Groups We Work With" exercise to assess the inherent expectations and challenges a program implementation faces in working with various stakeholder groups;
- At least three ways to adapt the tools to an evaluation setting.
Scott Yetter is a senior trainer for the Participatory Action for Community Empowerment (PACE) methodology for the past 9 years. He also designed and launched a series of multi-day workshops to train local and international staff on participatory methodologies and program implementation. Carlene Baugh is a Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor for CHF International.
Session 52: Participatory Program Tools for M&E
Prerequisites: Community or stakeholder group facilitation experience; prior experience working with or participating in community groups
Scheduled: Sunday, November 14, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Level: Intermediate
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