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Evaluations versus Peer-to-Peer Social Learning

February 13, 2010 by admin

There are such strong debates about evaluations in the field of economic development that it sometimes seems like a civil war. I would like to suggest that there is a rather different way to approach this problem that renders the debate about evaluation rather secondary and ill-posed. The real alternative to some imagined “scientific evaluations” to foster social learning is peer-to-peer networks of the doers facing similar problems and searching for solutions.

Filed Under: Main Blog Tagged With: Current events, Development aid, evaluations, Peer-to-peer networks, randomized controlled tests, social learning

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