The research reflects on formative program evaluation strategies, such as project description, sources of information, and management information systems implemented in the girls’ empowerment and youth village projects in improving governance and non-state actors’ practices. This qualitative document analysis assesses 82 of 124 digital resources published from January 2023 to September 2024, addressing girls’ empowerment and the youth village vocational education training projects. According to data collection, (i) project description, organizations share disaggregated summative data disconnected from students and community economic, social, and political factors; (ii) Sources of information indicate that organizations collect informal target groups’ perceptions of the projects without following an evaluation framework; (iii) Management and information systems indicate that organizations share public information on social media, especially Facebook and LinkedIn, resulting in fewer opportunities to support educational management and policy analysis. This study helps organizations to reflect on their practices and improve projects’ socioeconomic and political outcomes.

Authors:
Nadia Bengo, Kobe University, Japan

About the Presenter(s)
Nadia de Abreu Bengo is currently an education specialist at the National Institute for Training Teachers, Angola. Nadia is mainly interested in education public policy. Her Ph. D research focuses on evaluation capacity building in organizations.

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