Universität Wien

140233 UE PR1 - P II - PFA Evaluation of Collaborative Development Assistance Projects (2013S)

Continuous assessment of course work

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Limited participation number (max. 25 students); punctual attendance of the first lecture (9.4.2013 at 19:15) is absolutely necessary.

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 09.04. 19:00 - 20:30 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 3 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-12
  • Saturday 20.04. 10:00 - 16:30 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
    Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 3 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-12
  • Saturday 25.05. 10:00 - 16:30 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
    Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Saturday 08.06. 10:00 - 16:30 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
    Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 3 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-12
  • Saturday 15.06. 10:00 - 16:30 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
    Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Technical development endeavours, research activities and development cooperation interventions are based on projects to a large extent. Designing and effectively implementing projects is a major skill both in business and in the NGO field. Even the best project idea will fail to raise the necessary resources it the project was insufficiently designed and cannot be comprehensibly explained. Thus, we will get to know, discuss and test practical tools and methods to plan and explain projects. Moreover, we will deal with possibilities and limits to assess attainment of projects (and programmes). We will, however, not get engaged in project management. We will learn the major features and functions of monitoring and evaluation, systematise evaluation terminology and work with different planning tools, such as project cycle management (PCM) and logical framework approach (LFA). We will use and reflect stakeholder analysis, indicator formation and different approaches and methods to verify the success of projects (e.g. focus groups, social network analysis). To be as practical as possible, we will work on real examples (primarily from ODA with Eastern European countries) and implement several exercises, for which blocked seminars become necessary.

Assessment and permitted materials

The assessment of the students’ progress is based on their individual contributions during the exercises; their presentations and contributions to discussions; their day-to-day collaboration within the course and appraisal of home exercises and a written interim examination.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Objectives of this course are
• to get to know, critically reflect and apply the meaning and terminology of evaluation approaches and heuristics in development cooperation;
• to get to know, discuss, and partially even test different approaches and methods to evaluate whether or not the objectives of an intervention could have been attained (or not);
• to gather a whiff of experience through practical exercises and examples.

Examination topics

The course consists of some introductory presentations of the lecturer; presentations of the students; group discussions concerning practical examples; individual and group exercises (e.g. evaluation of a proposal, implementation of a focus group) and reading of short but relevant literature, which will be jointly analysed and discussed in our working group.

Reading list

The course uses the following literature, which will be in part jointly analysed and reflected:
ADA (2008): Leitfaden für Projekt- und Programmevaluierungen.
Caspari, A. und Barbu, R. (2008): Wirkungsevaluierungen: Zum Stand der internationalen Diskussion und dessen Relevanz für Evaluierungen der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Evaluation Working Papers. Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung.
GTZ (2004): Wirkungsorientiertes Monitoring. Leitfaden für Vorhaben der Technischen Zusammenarbeit.
Henseling, C., Hahn, T. und Nolting, K. (2006): Die Fokusgruppen-Methode als Instrument in der Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, IZT-Werkstattbericht Nr. 82
ILO (1996): Design, monitoring and evaluation of technical cooperation programmes and projects
IPTS and Joanneum Research (2002): RTD Evaluation Toolbox
Plattform Forschungs- und Technologieevaluierung (2003-2005): Standards der Evaluierung in der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik
Prüfer, P und Rexroth, Margit (2005): Kognitive Interviews. ZUMA-how-to-Reihe, Nr. 15
Prüfer, P. und Stiegler, Angelika (2002): Die Durchführung standardisierter Interviews. ZUMA-how-to-Reihe, Nr. 11
Rossi, P. H., Freeman, H. E. and Lipsey, M. W. (1999): Evaluation – A systematic approach. 6th edition, Sage: Thousand Oaks, London and New Dehli
Stockmann, R. (2010): 10 Thesen zur Evaluation der Wirksamkeit der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. CEval Arbeitspapier Nr. 18

Association in the course directory

PR1, PFA, P II;

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