Navigating Resistance to Integrating Equity in Evaluation and Capacity Building

Organizations are being called, more than ever, to respond to the elevated tensions and increased awareness of structural racism. Resistance often emerges in these organizational change efforts. Staff feel uncertain, uncomfortable, and unsafe. Equity-center evaluation is not exempt from these feelings. Evaluators can use scenario planning to identify necessary conversations needed to “unfreeze” resistant staff or clients to see the changes that are possible, building capacity to relentlessly pursue equity. Evaluators have an opportunity to develop an equity lens with their team and bring an equity perspective to their clients.

Beginner: Attendees need no prior knowledge of the specific content area in order to participate fully and effectively in the workshop. The information or skills will be new for those who enroll.

Attendees will learn:

• To understand how to use scenario planning to identify necessary organizational conversations to address equity as an internal and external evaluator
• To learn an approach to identify the structure and scale to focus the conversation (e.g., interpersonal, organizational, or system) with a system lens centering equity
• To learn how to use stakeholder maps to understand the power dynamics that can influence an organization’s necessary conversations to see the possibilities to move to action in service to equity

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