COURSE REQUIREMENTS
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To have passed all courses of engineering degree or other higher education
degrees.
- To know and master the specific skills of projects or to be familiar with the environment of development projects
- To
have completed or be pursuing the following subjects of the Master in
Rural Development and Sustainable Management Project Planning
- Evaluation designs: methods and tools
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course deals with the collaborative, participatory and
empowerment approaches to evaluation in the rural development projects
and programs. The main contents of this course are:
- Importance and relevance of the evaluation of rural development projects and programs
- Review of evaluation concepts and methodologies
- Collaborative and Participatory evaluation
- Empowerment Evaluation methodology and its different application contexts
- Ethnography, culture and management of focus groups as 3 key tools for CP&E Evaluation
- Empowerment the different actors of development projects through evaluation
COMPETENCES
The main
objective of this course is to go further in the knowledge of evaluation
methodologies that are based on knowledge of the actors and on the
organizational learning. The course is highly practical oriented and teaching methodology
is based on the materials with a direct application to the real world of
evaluation.
Transversal
Competencies
- The student participates in activities with interest in strengthening their
knowledge
- The student is capable of empathy in the study of the situation of the
different actors in the development process
- The student is capable of constructive criticism and self-critical
responsibility
Specific
Competencies
- The student is able to recognize the key-aspects of
different methodologies and apply them to real cases and
different contexts
- The student is able to understand the motivations of
each model and its positive aspects
- The student understands the conflicts and how they
develop participatory processes in different cases
- The student knows how to identify and involve different social
groups and stakeholders in the evaluation of development
projects
- The student has learned to identify, assess and take
into account human, social and environmental factors that affect and
are affected by the rural development project
- The student understands the role of evaluation in the
integrated approach to rural development projects, and is
also able to apply the most appropriate methodology according
to the context
- The student is able to manage changes and the evolution
of projects through the evaluation tools and the methodological resources acquired to
involve all project stakeholders
TEACHING MATERIAL
Teaching is based on the following materials:
- Group work in the
classroom. It will be the main teaching method. The students have
already studied the course about evaluation methodologies, so that
classes will focus on the practice of these methodologies to strengthen
these concepts in its development through the study of real cases. All
theoretical sessions will be complemented with the case study
methodology
- Lectures in class. About the theoretical aspects of the course
- Each session will have additional resources that will be available through the web
- Students
will complete several self-assessment exercises using different
methodologies as the practical activities of the course
- Students will make a final presentation on a topic related to the different methodologies for carrying out an evaluation
EVALUATION ACTIVIVTIES OR PRACTICAL TASKS
The evaluation
of the course will take into account the following items according to a defined
percentage:
- 40% Evaluation of the knowledge acquired by the student through on-line and
class-room questioners
- 25% Tasks performed by the student
- 25% Evaluation of presentations about the tasks
- 10% Student’s participation