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Introduction How to Evaluate Complex Landscape Initiatives for Learning & Transformation?
The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Chair in Environment and Sustainability Education has explored since 2016 (and earlier) methods, processes and frameworks for evaluation to more strongly support learning and transformation towards social justice and environmental sustainability. In 2019 this work gained new momentum with the formation of the Community of Practice on Social Learning and Sustainable Development under the SARChI Chair in Global Change and Social Learning. The NRF CoP created an opportunity to deepen, synthesize and more widely share the work done thus far.
Central to this work has been the development of a ‘hybrid’ framework for monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning in systemic social-ecological programmes focussed inter alia on restoration, resilience and natural resource management, under conditions of complexity. The hybrid model accommodates indicator-based reporting that can be aggregated by donors and government, and seeks ways in which this data can be used more effectively for communications and learning. At the same time, it overcomes the limitations of indicator- and target-based monitoring and reporting through dialogic theory-of-change mapping, collective case studies and action experiments as part of adaptive learning cycles, and realist evaluation designs to answer system-level questions. Key ingredients in the hybrid model are dialogic reflections, up-down and all-round communications, trust, and investing strongly in the starting conditions in the system, so as not to rely excessively and exclusively on compliance and control measures.
The evaluation research and development work of the Chair in Environment and Sustainability Education is intended for a dialogue with evaluators, policy makers, evaluation commissioners, programme designers, managers and funders of multi-dimensional, multi-party programmes responding to complex issues such as climate change, food and water security, unemployment, loss of biodiversity and livelihoods in Africa’s culturally rich and naturally beautiful landscapes.
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