Music In Action Journal | Case Studies from the Sector
INTRODUCTION
Knowledge and experience in program evaluation is essential to the growth and sustainability of social organizations, both to demonstrate visible impact to funders and partners as well as to improve the internal processes and structures upon which these organizations operate. While knowledge about evaluation is widely available online and in the academic setting, there are few Spanish-langauge resources and opportunities that provide program evaluation knowledge for professionals in the area of music and social change. The goal of our fieldwork assignment was twofold: to provide a Spanish-language virtual seminar to teach basic evaluative tools for such programs, and to provide a space for collaboration and networking for organizations with common missions across the region.
The current report will present the insights about the fieldwork we conducted between March 27th and June 24th— also known as Seminario de Introducción a las Herramientas de Evaluación para Proyectos Socio-Musicales en Latinoamérica— as part of our final project for the Global Leaders Program (GLP). The information is organized systematically, starting with a general introduction to the Latin American region and why we have decided to focus on this specific demographic. The report will then cover the methodology and curriculum design for each of the seminar sessions, the evaluation and results of the collected data, and an analysis and discussion about the future implications of these results. Based on our observations, we suggest that virtual fieldwork is a valid and often overlooked opportunity for knowledge sharing that is available to GLP members and, despite deviance from the traditional fieldwork model, presents high potential for customizability and far-reaching impact.
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Authored by : Michael Rivera (USA), Gustavo Samudio (Panama)
Rivera & Samudio developed the studied initiative Fellows of The 2021 Global Leaders Program.
