Producing the Evidence that Human Rights Advocacy Works: First Steps towards Systematized Evaluation at Human Rights Watch
Producing the Evidence that Human Rights Advocacy Works: First Steps towards Systematized Evaluation at Human Rights Watch
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提供人权倡导有效的证据：人权观察系统化评估的第一步
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2009
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Ian Gorvin
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Ian Gorvin
在人权活动家和专业人士的社区中，我们坚信我们能够有所作为。但将积极的变化归因于我们自己的工作往往是不确定的。与此同时，随着我们在媒体上以及与政策制定者的讨论中的影响力不断增强，并且被认为不断增强，我们面临着前所未有的敌对观众。有很多人——我们的直接目标和其他人——想要抹黑和解散人权组织，或者对在有影响力的政府没有意愿施加有意义的影响力的情况下谴责侵犯人权行为的价值持怀疑态度。敌意和怀疑都增加了我们解释我们的目的和策略的风险，包括我们如何评估我们的有效性。然而，即使是主要的、成熟的人权组织仍在更系统地评估我们是否以及如何实现我们从倡导工作中寻求的成果。我们如何找到可靠的证据来证明我们处理人权问题的方法确实有效？如果我们这样做了，我们如何通过建立评估和学习的组织文化来使这项工作真正有价值？本文旨在介绍人权观察在思考和试点系统化评估过程时正在进行的工作。
In the community of human rights activists and professionals, we share a conviction that we make a difference. But attributing positive change to our own work is often uncertain. At the same time, as our presence in the media and in discussions with policy-makers grows, and is seen to grow, we face a hostile audience as never before. There are many—our direct targets and others—who would like to discredit and dismiss human rights organizations, or are skeptical of the value of condemning human rights abuse in the absence of an appetite among influential governments to apply meaningful leverage. Both the hostility and the skepticism raise the stakes for us to explain our purpose and our tactics, including in terms of how we assess that we are effective. Yet even major, established human rights organizations are still getting to grips with more systematically evaluating whether and how we achieve the outcomes we seek from our advocacy efforts. How do we locate the reliable evidence that our approaches to human rights problems actually work? And if we do, how do we make that exercise truly worthwhile by establishing an organizational culture of evaluating and learning? This paper aims to present Human Rights Watch’s workin-progress as we think through and pilot a systematized evaluation process.