Cultural Competence and Power Dynamics in Evaluation: Reflections from a Gender Perspective (original) (raw)
Have you ever conducted or managed an evaluation in culturally diverse settings characterised by strong inequalities among their members? If the answer is yes, the ideas expressed in this article, which capture many years of evaluation experience in Latin America – a region with over 800 indigenous groups and with ten percent of the population concentrating 71 percent of the region’s wealth – are likely to resonate with you and foster some further reflection on your own practice. If the answer is no, you might still find it interesting to continue reading and discover some fresh perspectives to rethink your previous experiences or address future evaluation challenges wherever life might take you.
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