Project
Evaluators
Objectives
Structure
Phases
Principles of Evaluation
Basic Rules
Information about
the questionnaire
Project
This project aims to follow up the
Peace Cruise and its training impact on the Peace Sailors coming from 24 countries.
To this end, we need a detailed idea of what the Cruise fostered in the Peace
Sailors and their organisations. Concurrently, the issue is to analyse how Peace
Sailors will be able to apply what they have gained from the Peace Cruise toward
new initiatives that will promote peace.
Our partner for implementing the
participatory evaluation is
Collège Coopératif de Paris
1, rue du 11 novembre
92120 Montrouge
France
tel + 33 1 40 92 95 01
collcoopparis@compuserve.com
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The authors of evaluation
The Peace Sailors themselves will
be the authors of this participatory evaluation process, in order to deepen
their level of commitment. They will participate fully in both the analysis
and production of results, with the support of the steering committee.
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The objectives:
Evaluation
- I. Measure the impacts (the facts)
and the effects (the result of the impacts) of the Peace Cruise on the Peace
Sailors
- II. Measure the impact and the
effects of the Peace Cruise on the sending organisations.
Assessment
- Assess the value of these effects
and impacts.
- Assess the many different aspects
of this event.
Perspectives & Development
- To facilitate a process of development
to maximise the learning for all individuals and organisations.
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Structure :
- Missions of the Steering committee
- Design and set up the evaluation
- Provide overall guidance
- Supervise participatory
work, manage questionnaires and collect data
- Data processing and analysis
shall be performed by Collège Coopératif between legs.
- Missions of the Peace Cruise evaluators
and Peace Sailors
- Provide raw data
- Co-analyse the data
- Co-produce the results
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Phases
- 1. Draft project and the questionnaire
in English and French (Aug 00)
- 2. Test the questionnaire, trainer
training to manage questionnaires via Internet, action guidance(9 Sep 00)
- 3. Processing of questionnaires
(Oct 00)
- 4. Steering committee meeting
(27, 28 Oct 00)
- 5. Training for trainers to lead
evaluation groups that will produce and assess first results, production and
comparison of first results (6-9 Nov 00)
- 6. Guidance Team meeting (4 or
5 Dec 00)
- 7. Capitalisation and write-up
of Final Report by Collège Coopératif
- 8. Editing and distribution of
all documentation by WOSM (Jan 01).
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Principles of Evaluation
- To evaluate is
to give meaning to an activity.
- Participatory
evaluation is a process performed by the agents of a project themselves, not
by outsiders
- Participatory
evaluation is about putting the agents of an evaluation process in the position
of evaluators and co-evaluators
- Participatory
evaluation is part of the processes of learning, education and self-development
- Participatory
evaluation is a tool to master creativity and the mechanisms of social change
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Basic Rules
- Guidance Team:
This evaluation needs a Steering committee whose duties are to motivate agents
to participate actively, to provide active guidance at all levels throughout
all phases and, if needed to perform additional studies.
- Collège Coopératif:
The duty of Collège Coopératif is to ensure objectivity ant to inject its
methodological skills into Action Research activities and the evaluation process.
It shall supervise the evaluation process, ensuring that all agents participate
fully.
- Since not everyone
will be able to participate in every phase of the evaluation process, each
phase is set up in co-ordination with the Steering committee and everyone
will be expected to participate in the production and confrontation of the
first analysis.
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PARTICIPATORY
EVALUATION OF THE PEACE CRUISE
Information
about the questionnaire
The evaluation essentially
targets the lessons to be learnt from the Peace Cruise. It was a social experience
that generated a wealth of emotions, ideas, questions and teachings. The evaluation
aims to pin them down in order to raise consciousness and to become better able
to apply these assets in a creative and constructive manner toward a future
of peace.
The Peace Cruise
generated many documents that offer a wealth of indicators about all that has
been gained from it, especially the Logbook written by Peace Sailors from all
four legs. They are reproduced in the questionnaire in order to understand how
Peace Sailors have integrated the gains, how they will later apply, or reinvest,
these gains into other projects and activities that concern their personal lives,
families and careers as well as to see the effects of these gains on the Peace
Sailors and their sending organisations. Apart from the section on Peace Sailor¹s
personal data, the questionnaire is divided into six parts.
I. The Peace Cruise
as a Life Experience
II. The Zawisza
Czarny: a ship for peace.
III. The Cities and
Islands Visited during the Peace Cruise
IV. The Peace Events.
V. Politics and Diplomacy
and the Peace Cruise
VI. The Peace Sailors
training programme
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