Engendering Meta- Evaluations: Towards Women’s Empowerment.

Abstract

The term ‘meta-evaluation’, first used by Scriven in 1969, has been described by him as ‘the conscience of evaluation, just as evaluation is the conscience of society’ (Scriven 2009: viii). ‘Meta-evaluation’ refers to an ‘evaluation of evaluations’ or ‘a procedure for describing an evaluation activity and judging it against a set of ideas concerning what constitutes good evaluation’ (Stufflebeam, 1974). It can also refer to a synthesis of evaluations.