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Opleiding: Master of Development Evaluation and Management
Leerdoel
The Master’s will improve the students’ capacity to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the prevailing aid paradigms and the changing approaches to aid. Students will learn to appreciate the importance of different institutional arenas, and how they work and interact. They will be familiarised with multidisciplinary analytical tools that will improve their capacity to analyse the interactions and contribute to an enhanced conceptualisation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development policies and programmes.
The Master’s in Development Evaluation and Management focuses on the efforts made by a wide range of public and private actors to promote development in low-income countries. It provides a solid understanding of past and present aid policies of multilateral and bilateral donors, and of the major aid modalities and instruments deployed. The institutional characteristics of the actors involved – be they governments, community-based organisations, international NGOs, bilateral or multilateral donors – are analysed so as to attain a better understanding of processes and outcomes. The theoretical perspective is that development can be understood as a set of interlocking collective action problems, on both the recipient and the donor side. The Master’s programme offers methodological and practical insights into development evaluation, its relevance and challenges. The DEM programme offers two tracks with specific objectives and course packages that are intended for different audiences. The first track is primarily macro focused, while the second focuses mainly on the micro level.
Doelgroep
Applicants from the South must hold a university degree (Bachelor or Master) of at least 4 years of study in social sciences (Economics, Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, or related disciplines). Applicants who hold a Bachelor’s degree of only 3 years of study must demonstrate very strong and relevant professional experience and/or have successfully completed additional training. Applicants from the North must hold a Master’s degree in Social Sciences. Only applicants with excellent academic records will be accepted.
Our ideal applicant has at least 2 years of professional experience in a sector relevant to the programme. Applicants from the North should have relevant field experience in the South.
Applicants must prove proficiency in English. Special facilities are offered for students from other language backgrounds.
Programma
The DEM programme offers two trajectories targeted at different audiences, with specific objectives and course packages.
Track 1: Evaluating Development Effectiveness
The trajectory Evaluating Development Effectiveness focuses on the analysis of the interaction between external actors, aid and development processes. The basic question addressed is why development efforts are sometimes successful but more often fail. This leads to further, more operational, questions. What lessons have been learned from the study of past failures and successes, and how convincing are the present policy prescriptions and paradigms? The programme helps the student to use appropriate analytical frameworks and to apply relevant scientific methods in evaluating results and drawing policy conclusions. It involves students in different kinds of evaluation relying on quantitative and qualitative techniques.
This trajectory is targeted at participants who have work experience in government institutions (including public research institutions), donor agencies (including international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral donors), civil society (including research institutes, universities). Candidates work in the area of development interventions and poverty reduction initiatives, and are macro level policy oriented. Professionally they belong to middle management with policy responsibilities and/or in charge of managing the interface between different levels (national to international, national to local) or between arenas (government-donors, INGO-national NGO, etc.).
Track 2: Conceptualising Development Interventions
The Trajectory Conceptualising Development Interventions aims at analysing the interaction between external and local actors, aid and development processes in order to identify the changing opportunities and constraints for more effective, reform driven institutional development. It conceptualises political and economic development as the outcome of interactions between a conditioning institutional environment and the agency of international, national and local actors. Special attention is given to the importance of micro-level institutions and processes, and how these condition the effectiveness of development efforts. It analyses how the interactions of actor strategies and institutional structures produce inequality and poverty as well as well-being.
This trajectory is targeted at participants who have a work experience in civil society (including research institutes, universities, local NGOs or entrepreneurial associations), donor agencies (including international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral donors) and government institutions. Candidates work in the area of development interventions and poverty reduction initiatives, in micro- or meso-level projects and programmes, and/or are macro level policy oriented. Professionally the candidate is situated at the level of middle management with policy responsibilities and/or in charge of managing the interface between different levels (local to national, national to international) or between arenas (ex; civil society- government, government-donors, INGO-national NGO, etc…)
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