Participatory Management and Local Culture : Proverbs and Paradigms
Whereas evaluation has often been considered an activity required by donors, but fundamentally foreign to local culture, there is however plenty which has been done recently to develop participatory, and empowering modes of program evaluation, givi...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/1671228/participatory-management-local-culture-proverbs-paradigms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10820 |
| Summary: | Whereas evaluation has often been
considered an activity required by donors, but fundamentally
foreign to local culture, there is however plenty which has
been done recently to develop participatory, and empowering
modes of program evaluation, giving local stakeholders
active roles, and a say in how evaluation is performed.
Furthermore, unanticipated results of participatory
evaluation practices in West Africa has brought to light
local attitudinal approaches to evaluation, thus creating a
basis for the development of an appropriate evaluation
methodology. Incredibly, one of the means for such results
was the use of proverbs, which encapsulate local attitudes,
and provide insight in evaluation-related issues, such as
accountability, performance, and social responsibility. Such
"proverbial" culture placed evaluation at its best
form of collective decision-making, making the participatory
approach to evaluation a leitmotif. This attitude creates
the basis for helping beneficiaries develop a
culturally-appropriate technology of democratic self-governance. |
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