Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMs Blaser Mapitsa, Caitlin
dc.contributor.authorMs Polzer Ngwato, Tara
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-19T06:55:05Z
dc.date.available2019-11-19T06:55:05Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAs global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the ambit of ethical protection thinking and proposes a relational ethics approach for evaluation practitioners. This centers an analysis of power relations among and within all the different stakeholder groups in order to establish, in a contextspecific manner, which stakeholders are vulnerable and in need of protection. The approach also contextualizes the nature of “the public good,” as part of an ethical consideration of interest tradeoffs during evaluations. The discussion is informed by our experiences in African contexts and speaks to the “Made in Africa” research agenda but is also relevant to other global contexts where alternatives to “developed country” ontological assumptions about the roles of researchers and participations and the nature of vulnerability are being reconsidered.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT2019en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/28473
dc.journal.titleRooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africaen_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAmerican Journal of Evaluationen_ZA
dc.subjectevaluation, ethics, evaluation guidelines, Africa, relational ethicsen_ZA
dc.titleRooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africaen_ZA
dc.typeOtheren_ZA
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