Step 6 - Reflect on outcomes

Method:

This is a reflective review of the entire evaluation sequence and is really important for developing your own in-house capabilities for future cases or situations requiring evaluation. It takes a little reflection but it’s invaluable.

The following questions can guide your reflection at this stage:

• Has the process been comprehensive, successful?
• How were the interactions between the stakeholders/participants during the exercise?
• What were the main outcomes?
• What were the lessons learned?
• After this assessment cycle, do you think the social choice problem could/should be reframed? How? Have new issues, scenarios, stakeholders emerged during the process?

These questions should be explored collectively.

At this stage, you can also reflect on the difference between an expert or advocacy analysis and a multi-criteria multi-stakeholder evaluation or deliberation. There is a difference between conventionally reporting on case studies and conducting such an exercise.

After completing this step, you can return to Step 1 of the process to formulate new specific evaluation problems.

Advice from REEDS:

In this step, REEDS team can only advise you as a possible facilitator, or participant.

Output:

A summary of the above reflection.
Optional outputs could be publication in a journal.