1. Stakeholder participation in evaluation Ranjani.K.Murthy Engendering Policy Through Evaluation Project (ISST with the support of IDRC and Ford Foundation)

2. Objectives (1) Why and how important is stakeholders' participation in evaluation? (2) What is the present status of participation of stakeholders in evaluation in India? (3) What are the challenges in getting the participation of stakeholders? (4) What are the ways forward for participation of stakeholders in evaluation?

3. Gender integration The presentation will examine gender intensified and gender specific constraints to women’s participation in evaluation and possible solutions

4. Who are the stakeholders? Marginalized Communities/ women Implementing organization Evaluation team Donor Agency

5. Participation in what? In What Imp. the evaluation ValidatingReport Imp. the recos. TOR

6. When participation in evaluation? DuringEndBefore

7. Why participation in evaluation? PrincipleEfficiencyEffectiveness

8. Present status of participation With exception, marginalized communities /women only participate in implementation of evaluation With exceptions, implementing agencies & field staff have little say in evaluation process and outcome With exceptions, evaluation teams exercise power over implementing agencies, but in turn are accountable to donors At times donor agencies set agenda and determine what findings are to be highlighted

9. Challenges in getting participation of marginalized communities Lang.* *Gender intensified TOR* Caste etc.* Time/ Timing * Venue * **Gender specific Gender **

10. Challenges in getting implementing agency participation Lang- uage* *Gender intensified Funding getting cut Timing/ duratio n * Multiple donors Gender dynami cs** **Gender specific Domination by evaluation team

11. Challenges in getting participation of evaluation team Gender & caste ** *Gender intensified Acc. to donors Timings * Position hierarchy* Cultural differen ces **Gender specific Duratio n*

12. Way forward: Participation of marginalized communities TOR in local language/ pictures In marg. Separate groups Women and men separately Convenient time, timing venue De-briefing in local language

13. Way forward: Participation of implementing agencies Suitable timing/ duration * Familiarity - evaluation methods Evaluation as a learning process Local Language * Interaction with field/wom en staff** Corpus/ consortium

14. Way forward: Participation of evaluation team Break hierarchy with donor Break hierarchies-caste and gender * Break cultural and language differences

15. Evaluation truly likely to be participatory when Learning process Initiated by implementors Communities have stake in it from beg.

16. Methodologies - Evaluation as a Learning tool Commissioned by imp. NGO TOR evolved by NGO and self: gender integration* Identification of participatory gender aware methods* Training of staff in methods in local language Staff go to another staff team area Staff consolidate findings

17. Methods used-individual Intra HH interviews GDOL mapping GBAC over Resources Body mapping Access to institutions Happiness mapping

18. Methods used contd. Goal mapping Gender aware wealth ranking Triangulation with school, ICDS, health worker records Mapping of changes since inception-general and gender specific

19. Discerning causality Before-after Member-non member Member-spouse of member