Inclusivity & Responsiveness
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Inclusivity & Responsiveness: Co-evaluation is oriented to the needs of the participants in an inclusive and balanced way. Co-evaluation should offer inclusive structures for participants to savely express themselves and potentially empower marginalized perspectives. Co-evaluation aims for actionable results and therefore enables an increase in responsiveness of the research process.
Recommendations:
- Promote open and flexible activities for co-evaluation that build on previous discussions and take insights from group reflections to action. Enact a culture of empathy, trust, and mutual respect by creating safe spaces.
- Be aware of power relations that may exist between stakeholders or emerge during the process. Emphasize non-hierarchical relations and foster interactions among participants.
- Moderation of this open and reflective process is crucial. Moderators or facilitators play a key role and should be assigned carefully. Good communication/moderation skills, empathy and impartiality are important characteristics to make sure that all participants and their views are considered in joined reflections.
- Moderators should make sure that input for evaluation is balanced and all voices are being heard. It is also important that representation should be guaranteed for all involved participants. Depending on the context you may consider bringing in an external moderator or alternate the moderation role from within the participants.
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Thanks for putting the focus on moderation. This is often underestimated and very important!
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This is a really important one, but perhaps also the hardest to achieve. Those marginalized perspectives are often the ones who do not speak out. I really appreciate your recommendations here emphasizing the moderation skills needed and highlighting the importance of empathy and impartiality and maintaining a balanced perspective.
I would suggest adding an option here for collecting written-anonymized feedback. This could be collected in advanced, and discussed during sessions, or collected after discussions from those who did not feel comfortable expressing their views aloud.
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