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The Need for Genuine Peasant Organizing: Genuine Responses to Peasant Problem
(0000)
Social investigation is a most basic skill any organizer must acquire if he is to be effective in his work. It determines to a great extent the success or failure of any undertaking. Lack of it means to move about aimlessly. Weakness in it means getting into action with no certainty of victory. In either case the outcome is left to chance factor, something absolutely intolerable in our kind of work. Doing social investigation is akin to building the foundation of a structure. It is the beginning of any activity. It is the basis of any plan of action. If the foundation is weak the structure is certain to topple down sooner or later. If it is strong we can surely build up. anything from there with full confidence.
Research Methods in Social Relations-Quasi-Experimental Designs
(SPSSI, 1986) Kidder, Louis H.; Judd, Charles M.
Quasi-experimental designs provide a way to study some naturally occurring social treatments. They are a compromise between a true experiment that has high internal validity and the poor pre-experiments that have almost no internal validity at all. Quasi experiments enable us to rule out some threats to validity because they include more data points than the pre-experiments. The number of quasi-experimental designs that a creative researcher can construct is limitless. We have presented three types that are extensions of pre-experiments to show how the additional data points make a previously uninterpretable design interpretable. A determined researcher can design yet unthought-of quasi experiments by gathering data from enough subjects at enough times to rule out many threats to internal validity, so that even without random assignment, it will be possible to infer causes and effects.
Limitations of Monitoring & Evaluation
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This paper begins by looking at the aim of the monitoring and evaluation process. It is often difficult to put this process in practice. Various limitations are discussed including the main constraint of developing the right indicators to get a realistic output. The paper is of the view that monitoring must be multi-functional so that information generated at one level is useful in the next. In evaluation, with a good baseline as a reference point, the key is to link effects to causes so that NGOs can assess their contribution to change.
What is Evaluation
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Our workshop series confronted the task of shaping these general propositions into a framework for doing evaluation. Time and again, the workshops had to vanquish misconceptions like the following about the mystique of evaluation: "Evaluation requires a complex research approach that is beyond our capabilities," "You need qualified specialists to produce acceptable evaluations." "Evaluation is some-thing AID does for us anyway." These laments came up frequently. Our most important accomplishment in the workshops was recognition that PVO PRACTITIONERS CAN DO QUALITY EVALUATION!
Learning and Accountability: A Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant's Perspective. Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity Building: Is it really that difficult?
(INTRAC, 2007-03) Adams, Jerry; Simister, Nigel; Smith, Rachel
With so much discussion about learning in the NGO sector, it is increasingly important that as practitioners we have examples of realistic and achievable approaches. This Praxis Note reflects on some of the issues around organisational learning, with a specific focus on how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes can contribute to and support 'effective' organisational learning. This Note also explores learning and accountability, using the metaphor of a warring couple whose differing mandates make their relationship complex.
Working as Equals—Towards a Community-Based Evaluation System
(Community Development Journal, 1983) Pagaduan, Maureen; Ferrer, Elmer M.
This paper discusses the Makapawa programme, a health initiative set in Leyte, Philippines, in 1976, focused on addressing rural health challenges through a community-based evaluation system. The programme aimed to improve health outcomes by involving local communities in identifying issues and implementing solutions. It also critiques traditional health evaluation methods, emphasizing the importance of participatory research and community involvement in health programme evaluation. The paper explores the economic and political context of health disparities in the region and introduces a phased approach to community-based evaluation.

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