“On the 22nd September, Rosalind Eyben organised a meeting of some seventy development practitioners and researchers worried about the current trend for funding organisations to support only those programmes designed to deliver easily measurable results, although these may not support transformative processes of positive and sustainable changes in people’s lives.
Following on from a major conference in May in the Netherlands about evaluative practices in relation to social transformation (http://evaluationrevisited.wordpress.com/), the meeting took
the first steps in strategizing collectively in support of these practices” Attached is Rosalind’s brief report of the meeting.
PS: 11 October 2010. See the latest posting by Ros Eyben on this topic here, on the Hauser Centre blog
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