Archive for October, 2007
Reflections on the Politics of Practicality: Evaluating ICT for community development
Monday, October 15th, 2007Results-oriented development frameworks often continue to advocate what Iris Marion Young calls a ‘distributive paradigm’, without a holistic overview of the real outcomes for communities. Community practitioners can avoid some of these pitfalls in planning and evaluating their projects by looking beyond the project’s practical outcomes that may mask deeper levels of unintended consequences or lack of effectiveness. Central to this process is a need for detailed stakeholder engagement and active management of donor and funder expectations.
