27 - The situatedness of indigenous knowledge within localization of global development evaluation.

Abstract Information: Knowledge generation is a political process, never objective but imbued with values, perspectives, and agendas of those funding and conducting research. Activists and scholars like Arturo Escobar and indigenous scholars like Linda Tuhiwai Smith have long called for development and humanitarian actors to address power imbalances in the production of knowledge. As such, our Birds of a Feather Gathering will briefly touch on existing methodologies and approaches highly pedestaled in international development, while spending the majority of the time talking about the role of indigenous knowledge, skills, social relations, and networks in evaluating the effectiveness of southern developed solutions. The gathering will draw on cases and approaches that have advanced development and based on lessons learned, facilitate learning and knowledge transfer.