Developmental Evaluation for Extension Programs

Donaldson, Joseph L.; Franck, Karen

doi:10.34068/joe.59.04.05

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“…The ToC process can foster organizational reflection and learning, and adaptive management (Archibald et al, 2016). ToCs have been widely used in international development, outreach, agricultural extension systems, and wildlife conservation, and most recently, IWT (e.g., Wallen and Daut, 2018;Balfour et al, 2019;Skinner et al, 2020;Donaldson and Franck, 2021).…”

Section: Theory Of Changementioning

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Cool cats and communities: Exploring the challenges and successes of community-based approaches to protecting felids from the illegal wildlife trade

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Anagnostou

Harris

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Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Implementing community-based approaches to countering illegal wildlife trade is important to not only improve the effectiveness of strategies to protect wildlife, but also to promote equity and justice. We conducted an international exploratory review of interventions that aim to address the illegal trade in wildlife using a variety of community-based approaches. We focused our study on Felidae species in particular, as they factor centrally in the illegal wildlife trade, and have received significant conservation attention due to many being charismatic species. We searched for case studies that have been or are currently being implemented, and that were published between 2012-2022 in scholarly or grey literature databases. We extracted data on 40 case studies across 34 countries, including information on the approaches used, successes, challenges, and recommendations using a Theory of Change framework for community action on illegal wildlife trade. Initiatives to protect Felidae species from illegal trade could consider using multi-pronged approaches, consider historically underrepresented groups within communities - including women - in their design, and should evaluate the social and ecological outcomes to improve future efforts.

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Section: Theory Of Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Cool cats and communities: Exploring the challenges and successes of community-based approaches to protecting felids from the illegal wildlife trade

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Harris

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Front. Conserv. Sci.

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“…Decision makers and resource professionals are not always well versed in careful problem framing, and absent additional training in principles of decision analysis (Johnson et al, 2015) they may be reliant on technical assistance to carefully define and frame complex management problems. This systematic problem framing guides subsequent steps and analyses oriented toward identifying solutions, including the characterization of a needs assessment (i.e., an objective evaluation of the particular deficits in knowledge impeding confidence in selecting a course of action) (Donaldson & Franck, 2016). A wide variety of approaches has been described for conducting needs assessments, including informal listening sessions, systematic and structured interviews, surveys of decision makers, and more quantitative or qualitative techniques to elicit or evaluate priority requests (e.g., Koundinya et al, 2020;Warner et al, 2016;Watkins et al, 2012).…”

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Considering science needs to deliver actionable science

Bisbal

Eaton

2022

Conservation Biology

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Conservation practitioners, natural resource managers, and environmental stewards often seek out scientific contributions to inform decision-making. This body of science only becomes actionable when motivated by decision makers considering alternative courses of action. Many in the science community equate addressing stakeholder science needs with delivering actionable science. However, not all efforts to address science needs deliver actionable science, suggesting that the synonymous use of these two constructs (delivering actionable science and addressing science needs) is not trivial. This can be the case when such needs are conveyed by people who neglect decision makers responsible for articulating a priority management concern and for specifying how the anticipated scientific information will aid the decision-making process. We argue that the actors responsible for articulating these science needs and the process used to identify them are decisive factors in the ability to deliver actionable science, stressing the importance of examining the provenance and the determination of science needs. Guided by a desire to enhance communication and cross-literacy between scientists and decision makers, we identified categories of actors who may inappropriately declare science needs (e.g., applied scientists with and without regulatory affiliation, external influencers, reluctant decision makers, agents in place of decision makers, and boundary organization representatives). We also emphasize the importance of, and general approach to, undertaking needs assessments or gap analyses as a means to identify priority science needs. We conclude that basic stipulations to legitimize actionable science, such as the declaration of decisions of interest that motivate science needs and using a robust process to identify priority information gaps, are not always satisfied and require verification. To alleviate these shortcomings, we formulated practical suggestions for consideration by applied scientists, decision makers, research funding entities, and boundary organizations to help foster conditions that lead to science output being truly actionable. KEYWORDS decision analysis, decision maker, gap analysis, needs assessment, problem framing ResumenLos administradores ambientales y de los recursos y los practicantes de la conservación buscan frecuentemente contribuciones científicas para informar sus decisiones. Este sector de la ciencia sólo se vuelve práctico cuando lo incentivan los órganos decisorios que consideran vías alternas de acción. Muchos dentro de la comunidad científica equiparan abordar las necesidades científicas de los actores con la ciencia práctica como resultado. Sin embargo, no son todos los esfuerzos por abordar las necesidades científicas los que resultan en ciencia práctica, lo que sugiere que el uso sinónimo de estos dos constructos (ciencia

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Reconceptualizing Youth Sparks: A Sociocultural Approach to Co-Designing Programs for Somali Youth

Tzenis

2022

JJSE

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The 4-H Youth Development Program has a long history of fostering positive youth outcomes. Recently, attention and resources have been invested in the development of a program model (i.e., the 4-H Thriving Model) that theorizes the program elements that lead to positive outcomes (Arnold, 2018). Less attention, however, has been given to the program design process by which and with whom 4-H programs are designed and implemented. This matters because a lack of a community-engaged design process may lead to outcomes disconnected from community self-interests or to the exclusion of youth who might view the program as irrelevant to their lives (Simpkins et al., 2017). Drawing from examples of a collaboration between Minnesota 4-H and a Somali youth-serving organization located in central Minnesota, this article discusses how a sociocultural perspective can be used to critique youth programs around the inclusion/exclusion of youths’ broader social, cultural, and political contexts of development and socialization. Particular attention is given to the reconceptualization of sparks as socially situated, collective, and relational. The article concludes with a discussion of practical implications and future directions for Extension/4-H’s community-engaged and ongoing program design processes.

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Developmental Evaluation for Extension Programs

Cited by 3 publications

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Cool cats and communities: Exploring the challenges and successes of community-based approaches to protecting felids from the illegal wildlife trade

Cool cats and communities: Exploring the challenges and successes of community-based approaches to protecting felids from the illegal wildlife trade

Considering science needs to deliver actionable science

Reconceptualizing Youth Sparks: A Sociocultural Approach to Co-Designing Programs for Somali Youth

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