Alternative Evaluations (AE) is an initiative born in 2020, framed in a research about professionalization in evaluation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The idea has grown after the ReLAC Conference 2022, in which the Sulley Gariba Memorial Lecture was presented in the Latin-American context. Currently, Africa, Latinamerica and Asia pacific regions are developing the “Evaluation made our own”, which is rapidly growing. Authors from all over the world are spreading new perspectives, based on local culture, collective living and wellbeing, respect, solidarity.
We decided to use the term “Alternative” interpreting that there is always a possibility to choose, to make an election in the way to do evaluation, and we use for that, the following definitions:
Adjective
- available as another possibility or choice.
- relating to activities that depart from or challenge traditional norms.
Noun
- one of two or more available possibilities.
Likewise, the term “Alternative” has its etymological root in the Latin word “alternare”, whose derivations, among others, allow us to interpret that we can choose one proposal among several, in turns, allowing complementarity between options/perspectives.
Source: Oxford Languages Dictionary
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WHAT`S THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT?
This project aims to be a Hub of alternative ways to think and do evaluation, facilitating to reach new ideas and perspectives, and to compare and analyse them.
It also aims to make visible and to value different worldviews and its use to better apply evaluation according to the contexts.
WHAT TO FIND HERE?
Cases that demonstrate the application, explanation and/or teaching of Evaluation, and that can guide us towards alternative ways of naming and carrying out the evaluation process and especially the questions, criteria and indicators, in a contextualized/local manner.
Cases that demonstrate the application, explanation and/or teaching of Evaluation, and that can guide us towards alternative ways of naming and carrying out the evaluation process and especially the questions, criteria and indicators, in a contextualized/local manner.
WHAT TO FIND HERE?
