Do we really care about unintended outcomes? An analysis of evaluation theory and practice
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- 作者：Sumera Jabeen sumerajabeen_01@yahoo.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author sumerajabeen.sj@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Unintended outcomes ; International development evaluation ; Evaluation theory ; Evaluation practice ; Ethical and moral obligations
- 刊名：Evaluation and Program Planning
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：April 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：55
- 期：Complete
- 页码：144-154
- 全文大小：498 K
文摘
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Programme, policies and products can produce ‘unintended outcomes’.
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We need to study unintended effects for ethical (doing no harm) and technical (using them to improve interventions) reasons.
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A critical examination of evaluation theory and practice is undertaken and it is found that:
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despite wider acknowledgement of the phenomenon of unintended outcomes, evaluation theory is not adequately developed to examine such effects.
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International development evaluation practices failed to focus on such effects despite a general consensus about their importance.