Browsing by Author "Oakley, Peter"

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Evaluating Social Development: Outcomes and Impact-A Review of the Current State of Play
(1996-10) Oakley, Peter
This paper outlines the focus and aims of the international workshop on the evaluation of social development held in November 1996. The three main objectives of the workshop were: to provide a forum in which development agencies and individuals involved in evaluation of social development can make contact and exchange ideas on the issue; to update thinking and practice and to assess the current scenario; and to focus on the outcome-effect-impact aspects of the evaluation of social development.
Evaluating Social Development: Outcomes and Impact: A Review of the Current State of Play
(1996-11-04) Oakley, Peter
Since the late 1970s the term 'social development' has becorne an increasingly dominant element in the analysis of the problems of both developed and less developed countries and in strategies proposed to tackle them. While this social development was seen as having certain material or quantitative objectives, it was recognised that it also involved a range of less material and more qualitative objectives or processes which were equally critical to its effective implementation. It could be argued that it was the Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in the late 1970s and early 1980s who took the lead in this respect and who began to support and to promote programmes and projects which had clear less material and more qualitative social development objectives (Oakley and Winder, 1980: Howes, 1991.) The 1980s saw a veritable explosion in this type of development intervention, much of it emphasising development 'as a process' and based around objectives which contained substantial qualitative characteristics: for example, organisational development, participation, self-reliance and empowerment. The bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies followed suit towards the end of the 1980s and it could be argued that in the mid-1990s the 'development community' as a whole has at least recognised, if not openly espoused, a broader and less predominantly quantitative understanding of social development. (World Bank, 1994: Midgely, 1995.)
Evaluation of the EU - NGO Co-Financing Programme
(2000-10) Oakley, Peter
This is the Synthesis Report of the overall Evaluation Study of EU Budgetline B7-6000 that was undertaken by a consortium of independent European development agencies between February-September 2000. The evaluation was commissioned by the EU in late 1999 with the broad purpose of assessing the performance of the budgetline to date against a number of key variables. The evaluation was essentially divided into three phases. The first phase consisted mainly of a detailed review and analysis of the framework and mechanisms of the B7-6000 budgetline and was completed in Europe. The second phase has involved a number of limited field studies of 40 development projects co-financed by the EU in six countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, India, Kenya and Senegal. The third phase was an exercise of consolidating the findings of the overall study.
Manual for the Monitoring and Evaluation of a People's Participation Project
(1985-07) Oakley, Peter
Monitoring and evaluation are important aspects of any rural programme. This manual is concerned with the monitoring and evaluation of People's Participation Projects being developed in a number of African countries. The monitoring and evaluation of People's Participation Projects, the author says, must stress the need for developing income-generating or other economic activities with the rural poor and developing self-sustaining organisations. Such activities will serve as the basis for development efforts by the rural poor in future. This manual explains the ways in which this kind of monitoring and evaluation can be done.
Manual for the Monitoring and Evaluation of a People's Participation Project 1985
(FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS, 1985-07) Oakley, Peter
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are important aspects of any rural development project. All projects are forms of intervention in rural development and it is crucial that we understand the results of these interventions. M&E are essentially to do with judgement and with providing the data and information to project staff so that they can best understand whether the project is moving towards and accomplishing its intended. objectives. M&E should be built into a project's organizational and implementation structure and should be a continuous and systematic activity within the project.