Evaluation based on Critical System Heuristics

Evaluation based on Critical System Heuristics

1. 12 boundary setting questions

   • Motivation
     • Beneficiariy
     • Purpose
     • Measure of success
   • Control
     • Resources
     • Decision environment
     • Decision maker
   • Legitimation
     • Emancipation
     • Worldview
     • Witnesses
   • Expertise
     • Expert
     • Expertise
     • Guarantor

2. WHY USE CSH?

   • CSH enables a learning approach to evaluation.
   • CSH makes the role of the evaluator transparent in the process of evaluation thereby helping with the demystification of the evaluation process.
   • CSH is used to ascertain who important stakeholders might be (‘social roles’), and what their particular stakeholdings (‘role-specific concerns’) and stakes (‘key problems’) relate to
   • CSH questions are asked in an 'is/ought' mode thereby ensuring a continual ethical alertness to the process of evaluation.

3. Level of Planning

   • Goal
     • The PRA Pilot Project was oriented towards administration (‘goal planning’)
   • Objective
     • NRMP was oriented towards project management (‘objective planning’)
   • Ideal Planning
     • BRIMP was oriented more specifically towards policy design (‘ideal planning’).

4. Pasos para el proceso de criticar los supuestos o fronteras de juicios (Ulrich, 2005)

   • 1. Identificar las fuentes de selectividad.
   • 2. Examinar estos juicios acotados con base en las implicaciones prácticas y éticas.
   • 3. Encontrar opciones para determinar el sistema de referencia que condiciona la apreciación de la preocupación.
   • 4. Buscar un entendimiento compartido entre los principales involucrados.
   • 5. Finalmente, contrastar los juicios que alguna parte ha manejado desde tiempo atrás.