Episodes
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In this episode 8, part 2, Dr. Wand critiques the UNDP Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $30 Million project in Cox's Bazar District Bangladesh entitled Fighting environmental degradation and promoting greener energy. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/p010741001. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that UNDP www.undp.org needs to improve the design of its outcome indicators since only 2 out of the 9 outcome indicators are properly designed.
He provides alternative indicators for the remaining 7 outcome indicators that are flawed that will actually evaluate the project properly. Finally, he suggests that even the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) should be replaced by either solar cookers or biogas which has been used in other refugee camps as an even greener energy compared to LPG.
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In this episode 8, part 1, Dr. Wand critiques the UNDP Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $30 Million project in Cox's Bazar District Bangladesh entitled Fighting environmental degradation and promoting greener energy. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/p010741001. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that UNDP www.undp.org needs to improve the design of its outcome indicators since only 2 out of the 9 outcome indicators are properly designed. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique by emailing [email protected] . Finally, he invites a UNDP representative to attend Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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#evaluation
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In this episode 7, part 3, Dr. Wand continues his discussion with evaluation expert Yvonne Okeke about Equitas www.equitas.org Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $18 Million project in Burkina Faso, Haiti, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal entitled Achieving Equality through Human Rights Education. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P006852001 The experts conclude that Equitas cannot make the claim that their project is achieving its outcomes because only 1 of their 20 outcome indicators in their PMF properly measures the project outcomes.
This discussion focuses on why Equitas chose to promote gender equality in 5 countries that are not democracies, according to the 2023 Democracy Index with the 2023 Freedom House index noting that Kenya, Tanzania, and Senegal were only 'partly free.'
They recommend that this project promoting gender equality might wish to focus on democratic countries in Africa such as Ghana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana, according to the 2023 Democracy Index.
They also discuss the 2 outcome indicators that, in combination, properly measure and evaluate the achievement of improvements in leadership skills to mobilize communities in promoting gender equality.
The PMF and complete summary of all 20 outcome indicators for this project is available by emailing [email protected].
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In this episode 7, part 2, Dr. Wand discusses with evaluation expert Yvonne Okeke Equitas www.equitas.org Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $18 Million project in Burkina Faso, Haiti, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal entitled Achieving Equality through Human Rights Education. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P006852001 The experts conclude that Equitas cannot make the claim that their project is achieving its outcomes because only 1 of their 20 outcome indicators in their PMF properly measures the project outcomes. This discussion focuses on the flaws with the PMF and provides solutions to how the PMF and the overall evaluation of the project can be improved. In brief, those solutions include:
Replace your self-reporting bias (i.e. perceived capacity, levels of confidence, transferring knowledge) from your project beneficiaries (i.e. women, men, women organizations, civil society organizations, others) with external, objective measures of their technical capacity to promote and lobby for gender equality. Replace your subjective and frequency measures reported by the duty bearers with objective behaviours such as increased expenditures on gender equality programs 0r legislation passed that reflects better gender equality. Your current measures of empowerment in the PMF are not valid measures of empowerment.Either introduce comparison groups or measure your target groups more frequently to support your claims that your project outcomes have been achieved due to the project.The PMF and complete summary of all 20 outcome indicators for this project is available by emailing [email protected].
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#evaluation
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In this episode 7, part 1, Dr. Wand critiques the Equitas Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $18 Million project in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, and Haiti entitled Achieving Equality through Human Rights Education. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P006852001 He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that Equitas www.equitas.org cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites a Equitas representative to attend Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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In this episode 6, part 2, Dr. Wand discusses with evaluation expert Dr. Jenny Jorgenson Colleges & Institutes Canada www.collegesinstitutes.ca Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $18 Million project in Senegal entitled A Thousand women: I am woman, I exist, I participate. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P006852001. The experts conclude that Colleges & Institutes Canada cannot make the claim that their project is achieving its outcomes because only 1 of their 17 outcome indicators in their PMF properly measures the project outcomes. This discussion focuses on the flaws with the PMF and provides solutions to how the PMF and the overall evaluation of the project can be improved. In brief, those solutions include:
Replace your self-reporting bias of your project beneficiaries (i.e. vulnerable women) from your focus groups with measuring others (e.g. community members, others within their households) on awareness of the need for women to participate in decision-making bodies;Measure women's incomes and their ability to make decisions that show their power before you claim that your project women have increased their 'empowerment'. Your current measures of empowerment in the PMF are not valid measures of empowerment.Either introduce comparison groups or measure your target groups more frequently to support your claims that awareness levels or empowerment levels have increased. Currently, you only measure your target groups once per year in your PMF. This is inadequate to support your claim that your leadership training and entrepreneurship training are responsible for increases in women empowerment.The PMF and complete summary of all 17 outcome indicators for this project is available by emailing [email protected].
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In this episode 6, part 1, Dr. Wand critiques the Colleges & Institutes Canada www.collegesinstitutes.ca Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $18 Million project in Senegal entitled A Thousand women: I am, I exist, I participate. You can learn more about the project here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P006852001 He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that Colleges & Institutes Canada cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites a Colleges & Institutes Canada representative to attend Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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In this episode 5, Part 2, Dr. Wand discusses with evaluation expert Benjamin Serebour and MEDA representative Yasir Dildar the Mennonite Economic Development Associates www.meda.org Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $19,040,307 Million project in Africa, Americas, and Asia entitled A New Partnership for Sustainable Impact Investing in Frontier Markets. You can learn more about this project at https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/D000120001. This discussion focuses the flaws with the PMF and provides solutions to how the PMF can be improved. In brief, those solutions include:
Stop using self-reporting/Most Significant Change from individuals trained/mentored by MEDA as a method to claim that these individuals have experienced increased levels of skill/knowledge/technical ability. Replace this with objective, technical measures of technical ability. If this is too expensive, take a sample. If these individuals and organizations refuse this, do not provide the training and mentoring. You have that leverage.For organizations or 'entities' that MEDA claims to be increasing their standards of reporting on gender and environmental issues due to their training/mentoring, replace the number reporting on these standards with the percentage achieving this minimum standard using your technical audits and put this in your PMF.MEDA cannot find comparison groups that wish to participate in being measured on their project outcomes. Fair enough. Take your treatment group and use half of them as your comparison group and deliver your training/mentoring to that group later. See Chapter 5 Quasi-Experimentation Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation Second Edition ISBN 0-7879-6713-0 for other options without using comparison groups.Include country level reporting in your PMF as there are bound to be variations in performance between countries. -
In this episode 5, Part 1, Dr. Wand critiques the Mennonite Economic Development Associates www.meda.org Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $19,040,307 Million project in Africa, Americas, and Asia entitled A New Partnership for Sustainable Impact Investing in Frontier Markets. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that the Mennonite Development Associates cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites a Mennonite Development Associates representative to attend Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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In this Part 2 of Episode 4, Dr. Wand discusses flaws in the Ghana Rural Integrated Development international development organization https://grid-nea.org/ Performance Measurement Framework PMF for its $1,337,797 project in Ghana entitled Improving the Well-Being of Rural Women and Girls in Ghana. Dr. Wand concludes that their PMF is not sufficient to support GRID's claim that it has achieved its project outcomes. He propose solutions on how to improve the evaluation of the project. Finally, Dr. Wand invites listeners to receive a copy of the PMF and his summary critique of the project's outcome indicators by emailing him at [email protected]. In order to improve development evaluation, Dr. Wand recommends that all PMFs should be made available to the public on the Global Affairs Canada project browser and that all organizations use the solutions discussed on this episode when designing their PMFs. Further details about this GRID project can be found at https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P005964001. Notice that the PMF for this project is not available on the Global Affairs Canada project browser!!!
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In this episode 4, Part 1, Dr. Wand critiques the Ghana Rural Integrated Development www.grid-nea.org Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $1.337 Million project in Ghana entitled Improving the Well Being of Rural Women and Girls in Ghana. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that theGhana Rural Integrated Development cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites a Ghana Rural Integrated Development representative to attend Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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In this Part 2 of Episode 3, Dr. Wand discusses with evaluation expert Benjamin Serebour flaws in UNFPA South Sudan's https://southsudan.unfpa.org/ Performance Measurement Framework PMF for its $37,000,000 project in South Sudan entitled Human Resources for Sexual Reproductive Health in South Sudan. They conclude that their PMF is not sufficient to support UNFPA's claim that it has achieved its project outcomes. They propose solutions on how to improve the evaluation of the project. Finally, Dr. Wand urges listeners to contact the Minister for International Development at [email protected] as well as the shadow critics [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] to require all organizations to post their PMFs on the Global Affairs Canada project browser and have all organizations implement the solutions discussed when designing their PMFs. Further details about this UNFPA South Sudan project can be found at https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P007519001.
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In this Part 2 of Episode 2, Dr. Wand discusses with evaluation expert Hayat Askar flaws in the Canadian Bureau for International Education http://www.cbie.ca/ Performance Measurement Framework PMF for its $5,000,000 project in Canada entitled African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships Fund. They conclude that the Outcome Indicators are not sufficient to support the claim that the Canadian Bureau for International Education has achieved its project outcomes. They propose solutions on how to improve the evaluation of the project. Finally, Dr. Wand urges listeners to contact the Minister of International Development at [email protected] as well as the shadow critics at [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] to post online all Performance Measurement Frameworks and relevant evaluation plans on the Global Affairs Canada project browser for all organizations that they fund. Further details about this Canadian Bureau for International Education project can be found at https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/D000980001. You will notice that the Performance Measurement Framework is not there!!
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In this Part 2 of Episode 1, Dr. Wand discusses with evaluation experts Donald Cole and Dr. Mark Degner flaws in CARE Canada's Performance Measurement Framework PMF for its $3,400,000 project in Vietnam entitled Advancing Women's Economic Empowerment. They conclude that 'stories of change' may be necessary but are not sufficient to support CARE Canada in its claim that it has achieved its project outcomes. They propose solutions on how to improve the evaluation of the project. Finally, Dr. Wand urges listeners to contact CARE Canada at [email protected] to request they post all their project PMFs on their website and to implement the solutions discussed. Further details about this CARE Canada project can be found at https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P007336001
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In this episode 3, Part 1, Dr. Wand critiques a United Nations Population Fund UNFPA www.unfpa.org Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $37 Million project in South Sudan entitled Human Resources for Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and Gender-Based Violence in South Sudan. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites a United Nations Population Fund UNFPA representative to attend Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project. An evaluation expert will also be attending Part 2 of the episode to provide comments on the UNFPA PMF. More details about the UNFPA South Sudan project funded by the Government of Canada can be found here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/P007519001
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In this episode 2, Part 1, Dr. Wand critiques a Canadian Bureau for International Education www.cbie.ca Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $5,127,124 project in Canada entitled African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships Fund. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that the Canadian Bureau for International Education cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites the Canadian Bureau for International Education as well as an evaluation expert to attend a later podcast for Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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In this episode 1, Part 1, Dr. Wand critiques a CARE Canada www.care.ca Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) for a $3,400,000 project in Vietnam entitled Advancing Women's Economic Empowerment. He concludes that the PMF is flawed and that CARE Canada cannot make the claim that its project services have achieved its project outcomes. He also describes the services that the project delivers and invites listeners to request a copy of the PMF and his critique. Finally, he invites CARE Canada as well as 2 evaluation experts to attend a later podcast for Part 2 of the episode to respond to his critique and provide solutions as to how to improve the evaluation of the project.
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In this trailer, Dr. Wand will provide details covering 3 areas: 1 - What each episode (parts 1 and 2) will cover including explaining how international development projects are not being evaluated and how the podcast will offer solutions to improving the evaluation of the project; 2- The types of projects to be covered in Season 1; 3- How the listener can become involved with the podcast.
