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Chris Roche La Trobe University, Melbourne Institute for Human Security and Social Change Where I am Coming From? ACFID: Promoting Voice and Choice: Innovations in NGO accountability Big Push Forward - The Politics of Evidence: Blog,


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Chris Roche La Trobe University, Melbourne

Institute for Human Security and Social Change

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  • Big Push Forward - The Politics of

Evidence: Blog, Conference & Book

  • Pacific Leadership Program:

 Developing appropriate M&E,  Action-Research and Knowledge strategies

  • Developmental Leadership Program:

 The Evaluation of Politics and the Politics

  • f Evaluation,

 M&E when Politics Matters

Where I am Coming From?

ACFID: Promoting Voice and Choice: Innovations in NGO accountability

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What are some of the Tensions?

  • Small ‘e’ vs Big ‘E’ evidence
  • Demand for ‘Sausage Numbers’

and conclusions

  • ‘PEA’ without gender & social relations
  • Politics of Evidence
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Some Ways Forward?

  • Bringing feminist

understanding of collective action & power relations into the picture (see Rao & Kelleher)

  • From M&E to MERCL…
  • Recognising different forms of knowledge:

research, practitioner & citizen based (see ODI),

Abilities, attitudes, and

  • pportunities.

Access to land, income, education and health etc. Social norms and attitudes Policies and laws Budgets

Informal Formal Individual Systemic

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  • Recognising that this

work is more like Spread Betting than anything else

  • Outcome ‘Harvesting’

approaches & real-time Action-Research

Some Ways Forward?

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Issues to Consider

  • The Political Economy of Funders and

Proponents of T&A – turning the tools on

  • urselves? Understanding the ‘eco-system’.
  • Addressing an emerging view that

international efforts should focus on international development issues, not on ‘developing ‘countries (i.e. Deaton) and/or should focus on basic services (i.e. Barder)