10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.13106735.V1
Paulina Pospieszna
Democracy Assistance Efforts of Young Donors from the Visegrad Group: In Search for Better Impact Evaluation Methods
<div>International Conference Booklet Development and Democracy Ecosystems in V4: the Role for Civil Society Organizations and Business Beyond 2015, 2014, Pontis Foundation, 2014</div><div>Until recently, the major donors in democracy assistance field were Western democracies and multilateral aid agencies; therefore the literature abounds with studies of aid coming from these donors. However, little is known about the effectiveness of democracy assistance from the young donor countries that not such as long time ago were recipient of this type aid. Much of democracy assistance work is done by civil society organizations that collaborate with partners in recipient countries within specific projects. How do these projects impact the beneficiaries of the project? How effective are these project in changing opinions and behaviors of the target groups? Finally, do they contribute to diffusing democratic ideas and behaviors? This paper demonstrates the shortcomings of existing impact evaluation methods to answer these questions and demonstrates the usefulness of randomization method that so far has been widely used in developmental aid.</div>
160607 International Relations
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2020-10-18
2020-10-18
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