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Welcome to the home of the Pluralistic Evaluation Framework
a tool to assist in the appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of all kinds of policies and projects
What’s the big idea?
Three pillars
The PEF has three pillars to consider in any evaluation:
Stakeholders: identifying the right people and organisations to consult
Processes: identifying kinds of systems and processes that may be affected
Ways of valuing: accounting for multiple kinds of goodness and harm.
These three pillars are linked by a suite of aspects providing criteria that can structure an evaluation.
A suite of aspects
15 aspects provide the main content of the PEF. They are used:
to identify stakeholders and rightsholders who should be considered: from numerical criteria (individuals or communities?) right through to ultimate criteria (ideological and faith communities)
to recognise systems and processes that need accounting for: starting with the physical aspect (e.g. hydrology, climate), through to the ultimate aspect (ideological dynamics)
to elicit different ways in which stakeholders may value or disvalue a situation: starting with the biotic aspect (healthy?) and through to the ultimate aspect (inspirational?). In this context we call them modes of valuing.