Evaluating Communication for Development:A Framework for Social Change

摘要

Lennie and Tacchi have written an important and much-needed book. Packed with nuanced theoretical insights and abundant empirical information, the volume should be kept at hand by scholars and aid program managers. The book blends analytical arguments and how-to recommendations for conducting evaluations that are grounded in critical and democratic principles. The analysis neither falls into empty boosterism for participatory evaluation nor delivers a simple paean to local knowledge. Equipped with solid expertise in the subject, the authors have produced a comprehensive study about how participatory evaluation should be designed and implemented. The book brings together ideas from participatory/ethnographic studies, a field of research and practice that has produced cutting-edge innovations in communication for development and social change in the past decades.