Who Defines Evaluation Capacity? Decolonizing Knowledge, Power, and Practice in the Age of AI
Mesa Redonda | Online
About the Event
Evaluation capacity building is widely used to strengthen learning, evidence use, and accountability, yet is often defined through dominant Western frameworks that overlook diverse ways of knowing and practicing evaluation. As AI-driven tools emphasize codification and scale, these tendencies may deepen. Using a decolonizing lens, this roundtable explores how power, knowledge, and context shape what counts as evaluation capacity, engaging participants in dialogue to generate more epistemically-inclusive, context-responsive insights, responding to technocracy concerns in evaluation in an AI era.
Speakers
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Mervyan J. Konjore | Evaluator & PhD Candidate, CGU | A multilevel perspective on evaluation capacity, examining how capacity is distributed and enacted across individual, organizational, interorganizational, and systems levels |
| Rebecca Polivy | Evaluator & PhD Candidate, CGU | An integrated perspective on evaluative thinking, focusing on how judgment, reflection, and learning are cultivated in practice and how these dimensions are (or are not) recognized in capacity discussions |
| Minji Cho, Phd | Evaluator | A decolonial and epistemic perspective, interrogating how knowledge, values, power, and ways of knowing shape what is recognized as valid evaluation capacity |