Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 652442 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa |
| NOMBRES | Caitlin Blaser |
| APELLIDO | Mapitsa |
| FIRMA | MAPITSA C B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8189-8451 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Positionality in Made in African Evaluation
Made in Africa evaluation has grown to shape the trajectory of evaluation in the region. However, empirical studies on the backgrounds of evaluators in Africa have illustrated the complex relationship between identity and geography. “Being African” takes on an important meaning in a context where local evaluation skills are often marginalized, but “local” identities have historically been displaced and disrupted. The authors of this manuscript al…
Planning and evaluating climate resilience programs in Southern Africa
Southern Africa faces intensifying climate risks shaped by rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, extreme weather events, and deep structural inequalities. As investment in climate resilience programming grows, so does the need for rigorous, context-sensitive frameworks for planning and evaluating such programmes. Yet current approaches to vulnerability assessment, predominantly built on the IPCC dimensions of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptiv…
Behavioural Science Interventions in Development and Environmental Fields in Developing Countries
Human behaviour is a key driver of climate change yet rigorous empirical guidance is lacking in terms of how behavioural science can effectively support adaptation and emissions reductions in developing countries. This article presents an evidence gap map and the approach for a systematic review on the effectiveness of behavioural science interventions on environmental and development outcomes. The article consists of two parts. First, the articl…
From the Section Editors
From the Section Editors
Methods to Make Sense of Resilience
The Okavango and Limpopo river basins are challenged by the effects of climate change, where communities that are traditionally dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods must adapt to conditions less predictable. Divergent interests among various stakeholders contribute to tensions between livelihoods and conservation, and understanding the perspectives of communities is critical for planning. However, traditional methodological tools …
Introducing digitalisation to strengthen evaluation systems for democracy in African parliaments
African parliaments are a unique institutional context for evidence use, and processes for digitalisation have specific implications for how evidence systems can contribute to democracy. While African parliaments have organisational features that make introducing technology challenging, they also hold significant promise for using digitalisation as a tool to strengthen democratic governance both within parliaments themselves, and also across the …
Cycad Regulation and Community Creation
They are also widely prized as collectors' items, both nationally and internationally, commanding high prices and placing them in the unenviable position of being among the world's most frequently trafficked plants. South African cycad species, most of which are endangered and all of which are protected, are heavily regulated, with the ownership, trade, and use of cycads requiring a permit. This article explores how regulations are understood by …
Evaluation without monitoring
The evaluation sector has been struggling with systems that claim to be monitoring and evaluation, but in fact stop with the monitoring. However, equally problematic, yet much less discussed, is the phenomenon of evaluation without monitoring. This article considers three different contexts that may require evaluators to evaluate a programme with little foundational monitoring data. It explores some of the underlying causes of this and suggests c…
Policies for evidence
Background: African countries are developing their monitoring and evaluation policies to systematise, structure and institutionalise evaluations and use of evaluative evidence across the government sector. The pace at which evaluations are institutionalised and systematised across African governments is progressing relatively slowly. Aims and objectives: This article offers a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape. …
How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities
Intersection of Migration and Local Governance
A recent study interrogating the ways in which municipal authorities in South Africa are governing their mobile communities demonstrated that there is potential for both conceptual innovation and methodological rigor when integrating the cross-cutting systems of migration and local governance. However, this integration also posed a number of challenges that were apparent both during the data collection phase, as well as when the diagnostic tool w…
From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments
Monitoring and Evaluation discourse in Africa has evolved to focus on building systems at a national level. While this systemic approach has many advantages, its implementation often runs up against the uncomfortable reality that governments have complex incentives to use evidence, and this evidence can equally contribute to decision making that is neither development-focused nor democratic if values are not part of the conversation. Much of the …
Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
Mobility and urbanization are shaping cities in Southern Africa. Peri-urban areas in particular are transforming at such a pace that municipalities are struggling to keep up with the changes. Local government is trying to build appropriate capacity to respond to a mobile population, but it is not always clear where to focus capacity development efforts. Applying a diagnostic tool on local government capacity to respond to mobility, researchers bo…
Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics
As global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the ambit of ethical protection thinking and proposes a relational ethics approach for evaluation practi…
Local Politics of Xenophobia
Drawing on research from five peri-urban sites across South Africa on how local government is responding to mobility, this research explores how xenophobia is being produced by local governance processes and structures. Building a better understanding of the mechanisms of exclusion in local government is essential not only for planning interventions that may strengthen democracy, but to understand how the daily practices of local government can p…
From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments
Monitoring and Evaluation discourse in Africa has evolved to focus on building systems at a national level. While this systemic approach has many advantages, its implementation often runs up against the uncomfortable reality that governments have complex incentives to use evidence, and this evidence can equally contribute to decision making that is neither development-focused nor democratic if values are not part of the conversation. Much of the …
Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics
As global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the ambit of ethical protection thinking and proposes a relational ethics approach for evaluation practi…
Local Politics of Xenophobia
Drawing on research from five peri-urban sites across South Africa on how local government is responding to mobility, this research explores how xenophobia is being produced by local governance processes and structures. Building a better understanding of the mechanisms of exclusion in local government is essential not only for planning interventions that may strengthen democracy, but to understand how the daily practices of local government can p…
Local Politics of Xenophobia
Drawing on research from five peri-urban sites across South Africa on how local government is responding to mobility, this research explores how xenophobia is being produced by local governance processes and structures. Building a better understanding of the mechanisms of exclusion in local government is essential not only for planning interventions that may strengthen democracy, but to understand how the daily practices of local government can p…
Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
Mobility and urbanization are shaping cities in Southern Africa. Peri-urban areas in particular are transforming at such a pace that municipalities are struggling to keep up with the changes. Local government is trying to build appropriate capacity to respond to a mobile population, but it is not always clear where to focus capacity development efforts. Applying a diagnostic tool on local government capacity to respond to mobility, researchers bo…
Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics
As global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the ambit of ethical protection thinking and proposes a relational ethics approach for evaluation practi…
How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities
Intersection of Migration and Local Governance
A recent study interrogating the ways in which municipal authorities in South Africa are governing their mobile communities demonstrated that there is potential for both conceptual innovation and methodological rigor when integrating the cross-cutting systems of migration and local governance. However, this integration also posed a number of challenges that were apparent both during the data collection phase, as well as when the diagnostic tool w…
From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments
Monitoring and Evaluation discourse in Africa has evolved to focus on building systems at a national level. While this systemic approach has many advantages, its implementation often runs up against the uncomfortable reality that governments have complex incentives to use evidence, and this evidence can equally contribute to decision making that is neither development-focused nor democratic if values are not part of the conversation. Much of the …
Policies for evidence
Background: African countries are developing their monitoring and evaluation policies to systematise, structure and institutionalise evaluations and use of evaluative evidence across the government sector. The pace at which evaluations are institutionalised and systematised across African governments is progressing relatively slowly. Aims and objectives: This article offers a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape. …
Evaluation without monitoring
The evaluation sector has been struggling with systems that claim to be monitoring and evaluation, but in fact stop with the monitoring. However, equally problematic, yet much less discussed, is the phenomenon of evaluation without monitoring. This article considers three different contexts that may require evaluators to evaluate a programme with little foundational monitoring data. It explores some of the underlying causes of this and suggests c…
Methods to Make Sense of Resilience
The Okavango and Limpopo river basins are challenged by the effects of climate change, where communities that are traditionally dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods must adapt to conditions less predictable. Divergent interests among various stakeholders contribute to tensions between livelihoods and conservation, and understanding the perspectives of communities is critical for planning. However, traditional methodological tools …
Introducing digitalisation to strengthen evaluation systems for democracy in African parliaments
African parliaments are a unique institutional context for evidence use, and processes for digitalisation have specific implications for how evidence systems can contribute to democracy. While African parliaments have organisational features that make introducing technology challenging, they also hold significant promise for using digitalisation as a tool to strengthen democratic governance both within parliaments themselves, and also across the …
Cycad Regulation and Community Creation
They are also widely prized as collectors' items, both nationally and internationally, commanding high prices and placing them in the unenviable position of being among the world's most frequently trafficked plants. South African cycad species, most of which are endangered and all of which are protected, are heavily regulated, with the ownership, trade, and use of cycads requiring a permit. This article explores how regulations are understood by …
From the Section Editors
Behavioural Science Interventions in Development and Environmental Fields in Developing Countries
Human behaviour is a key driver of climate change yet rigorous empirical guidance is lacking in terms of how behavioural science can effectively support adaptation and emissions reductions in developing countries. This article presents an evidence gap map and the approach for a systematic review on the effectiveness of behavioural science interventions on environmental and development outcomes. The article consists of two parts. First, the articl…
From the Section Editors
Positionality in Made in African Evaluation
Made in Africa evaluation has grown to shape the trajectory of evaluation in the region. However, empirical studies on the backgrounds of evaluators in Africa have illustrated the complex relationship between identity and geography. “Being African” takes on an important meaning in a context where local evaluation skills are often marginalized, but “local” identities have historically been displaced and disrupted. The authors of this manuscript al…
Planning and evaluating climate resilience programs in Southern Africa
Southern Africa faces intensifying climate risks shaped by rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, extreme weather events, and deep structural inequalities. As investment in climate resilience programming grows, so does the need for rigorous, context-sensitive frameworks for planning and evaluating such programmes. Yet current approaches to vulnerability assessment, predominantly built on the IPCC dimensions of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptiv…
Political science (11 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Public Administration (5 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)