2022
Evaluation, Participation and Engagement: Facilitating Cooperative Problem Solving
Summary
During this workshop-conference, we will ask ourselves: How to ensure the success of a participatory approach to evaluation? How do we conduct group discussions or projects that bring people together, level power relations and quickly achieve viable solutions that achieve consensus?
After covering evidence-based practices in this area, we will explore concrete guides and tools for animation, facilitation and evaluation. We will also discuss a method to introduce an iterative approach and promote active reflective practice among partners. We will conclude briefly on the use of technologies and a real example of a web tool to support participatory approaches, as well as the characteristics sought for such tools.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the key conditions, factors of success and failure, of participatory practices;
- Explain the usefulness and operation of certain facilitation tools;
- Explain how engagement and participation affect the evaluation process;
- Interpret hidden dynamics of engagement and motivation affecting participation and evaluation.
Areas of Professional Competencies of CES Evaluators
Technical practice, contextual practice and practice regarding interpersonal relationships.
Trainer: Philippe Tousignant
Lecturer in the Certificate in International Cooperation and Solidarity at Université de Montréal. Senior Advisor at Educonnexion, a civic education organization that works to empower individuals, organizations and school systems to better address the eco-social challenges of the twenty-first century. He has coordinated, facilitated and participated in the creation and deployment of educational and engagement approaches present in more than 35,000 schools and educational environments around the world that aimed to: strengthen civic engagement and participation, solve concrete social problems, reconcile post-conflict adverse parties, measure impact and foster a learning culture, and develop capacities among young people and adults to act as agents of change.
It annually trains hundreds of practitioners in transformative educational practices and supports, through participatory approaches, organizations and institutions wishing to strengthen their evaluation, engagement and education practices. Social and systemic transformation processes and impact evaluation are at the heart of its interests.
Cost
- SQEP Members:
- Professional (regular): $40
- Student: $20
- Non-SQEP members:
- Professional (regular): $85, including SQEP membership
- Student: $45, including SQEP membership.