Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social Development

Taylor & Francis

Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social DevelopmentInterpretive and Ethnographic Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Stephen Bell, Peter Aggleton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138844155, 978-1138844155\nSynopsis\nNew approaches are needed to monitor and evaluate health and social development. Existing strategies tend to require expensive, time-consuming analytical procedures. The growing emphasis on results-based programming has resulted in evaluation being conducted in order to demonstrate accountability and success, rather than how change takes place, what works and why. The tendency to monitor and evaluate using log frames and their variants closes policy makers and practitioners eyes to the sometimes unanticipated means by which change takes place.\n\nTwo recent developments hold the potential to transcend these difficulties and to lead to important changes in the way in which the effects of health and social .