Evaluating social exclusion interventions in university-community partnerships.
Most university-community partnerships (UCPs) involve elements of community-level social exclusion interventions. As such, they face substantial challenges in management and evaluation. This paper highlights the central challenges associated with evaluation of UCP and other social exclusion interventions at the community level, and suggests methods to overcome them. The main body of the paper presents a case study based on a four-year action research involving evaluation of a social exclusion intervention initiated and implemented by a UCP in Israel. The case study highlights the challenges faced by the evaluation team, the solutions provided, and the contribution of the evaluation to improvement and accountability.
Center for Public Management and Policy, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: yuvalofek@poli.haifa.ac.il.
Yuval
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Ofek
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007557:Israel; D007857:Leadership; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012934:Social Isolation; D014495:Universities
Actor-oriented approach; Evaluation approach; Network evaluation; Outcome mapping; Social exclusion; Theory of change; University-community partnerships