DOI
10.9707/1944-5660.1405
Key Points
Systemic change involves deep shifts in social norms, beliefs, power, and privilege — and seldom, if ever, follows a straightforward, predictable path. Such change also requires incremental, long-term action and evaluation. To better support systemic change, how might a foundation reframe its approach to evaluation?
This article explores the interconnected dimensions of the PCI Reflective Evaluation Framework, an approach now in prototype form which is grounded in practical thinking about working within complex social systems. This article focuses on its use in advancing racial equity, describing possible applications to integrate a racial equity lens in unpacking and addressing the complexity of systemic change.
The framework is intended to help communities use evaluation to sustain their efforts to achieve racial equity and other systemicchange goals that involve fundamental shifts in the underlying assumptions and values on which a social system is built.
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Recommended Citation
Parsons, B. A., & Krenn, H. (2018). PCI: A Reflective Evaluation Framework for Systems Change. The Foundation Review, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1405
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Support for this open access article is provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
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