Asia Pacific world views in evaluation: Inspiring regional culturally responsive practice

African Evaluation Journal

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Asia Pacific world views in evaluation: Inspiring regional culturally responsive practice
 
Creator Dinh, Kathryn T.
 
Subject Culturally responsive evaluation; Asia; Pacific; world views culturally responsive evaluation; Asia; Pacific; Indigenous; world views; culture; decolonisation; localisation.
Description Background: This article pays tribute to Dr Sulley Gariba, a pioneer of global and African evaluation, by examining the growing movement of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) and culturally responsive Indigenous evaluation (CRIE) in the Asia Pacific.Objectives: The article aims to describe initiatives to increase awareness and uptake of CRE and CRIE as well as good practice examples across the Asia Pacific.Method: A literature review was conducted guided by evaluation, CRE and CRIE experts.Results: While Western-derived evaluation practice still dominates the region, particularly in international development, there are increasing examples of CRE and CRIE in the Asia Pacific. The movement to mainstream CRE and CRIE is redressing decades of colonisation and power imbalances in the Asia Pacific and such approaches will in turn, contribute to decolonising policy and practice.Conclusion: Integrating CRE and CRIE into mainstream evaluation practice in the Asia Pacific will play a vital role in ensuring that evaluation contributes to meaningful, culturally relevant and appropriate improvements in people’s lives.Contribution: This article contributes to inter-regional awareness of, and learning about, CRE and CRIE by sharing perspectives and good practice from the Asia Pacific.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Asia Pacific Evaluation Association EvalPartners International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation Randika De Mel Madhuka Liyanagamage Stuart Coupe Nicola Theunissen Mari Honjo
Date 2024-06-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literature review, interviews
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/aej.v12i2.732
 
Source African Evaluation Journal; Vol 12, No 2 (2024); 5 pages 2306-5133 2310-4988
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Asia Pacific region Present day Country
Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Kathryn T. Dinh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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