Hello! I am Dr. Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, this year’s Chair of the ICCE TIG and Principal of TERSHA LLC. I am excited to announce the blog posts for the ICCE TIG Week.
As a Ghanaian American in the diaspora, I was raised by my grandmother with an Indigenous Ewe upbringing. In my rich West African heritage, I learned how storytelling is not only a way of life but an embedded culture that exudes the essence of power and liberation. It is in honor of this manumitted power, that I kick off this week’s posts by sharing the I.M.P.A.C.T. framework. This framework embraces an interdisciplinary approach to evaluation in service to communities. As you explore the posts throughout the week, I hope the framework guides how you see the weaving of different stories authors offer across disciplines and experiences. Enjoy!
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How do the stories we learn from this week honor the collective wholeness of our field?
Manumit
How do we examine the relevancy of our work and rethink what they know about communities and societal issues as we engage with these posts?
Practice-based
Are we open to professional and personal growth, and reflective about the evaluation in practice?
Accessible
How do we use what we are learning to avoid perpetuating harm and ensure processes include the “people”?
Community-focused
How does our sense of being from knowing the result in how we relate to and see the world and the vulnerabilities or restraints that may influence the evaluation work?
Timely
What is the impact of what we learn on our lives and those for whom we are in service to?
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Very excited to see this post. The I.M.P.A.C.T. framework asks key questions that can help guide the decisions made about an evaluation.