Perceived Facilitators and Barriers to Evaluative Thinking in a Small Development NGO
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https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.43118Keywords:
critical thinking, development evaluation, evaluative thinking, international development, NGOsAbstract
The Global Goals come with challenging implications for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in international development and their capacity for high-quality evaluation practice and evaluative thinking. NGOs are pressured to work efficiently, be accountable to donors and beneficiaries, and demonstrate impact. They must also critically examine the underlying assumptions behind their work, or else the sustainability of their work becomes jeopardized. Using previously collected evaluation data from a small NGO in water-based development, this paper highlights perceived facilitators and barriers to evaluative thinking and where they might occur in the evaluation process for an NGO constrained by time and resources.
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Copyright (c) 2019 Stephanie K. Lu, Susan J. Elliott, Christopher M. Perlman
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