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From Valuing to Evaluating: Tools and Procedures to Operationalize the Capability Approach

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Children and the Capability Approach

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As we have seen in Chapter 1, the operationalization of the capability approach (CA) has not been an easy task. While the CA has been used as an alternative programming and evaluative framework for projects carried out by NGOs in developing countries (Alkire, 2002; Ferrero et al., 2006; Frediani, 2007, among others), there is still a relative lack of tools and procedures available (Robeyns, 2006). Indeed, the evaluation and analysis of children’s well-being can enrich the informational base for multidimensional social assessments in the space of capabilities. Nevertheless, this requires techniques for identifying, prioritizing, measuring and comparing diverse capability sets in different situations (see also Alkire, 2008).

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    Mario Biggeri & Renato Libanora

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Biggeri, M., Libanora, R. (2011). From Valuing to Evaluating: Tools and Procedures to Operationalize the Capability Approach. In: Biggeri, M., Ballet, J., Comim, F. (eds) Children and the Capability Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308374_4

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