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Chris Roche La Trobe University, Melbourne

Institute for Human Security and Social Change

• 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

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

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

• Recognising that this

work is more like Spread Betting than anything else

• Outcome ‘Harvesting’

approaches & real-time Action-Research

Some Ways Forward?

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)