Project management: Prof. Dr. habil. Monika Alisch
Research grant from the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
Duration: 2014-15

Project description:
The formative evaluation focuses on projects within the framework of the project initiative "Diaconal Community - Combating Poverty". Seven locations were selected from 14 funded projects for exemplary evaluation. Qualitative social research methods are used to analyse the implicit and explicit interest orientations as well as the needs of the project participants (initiators and target groups of the local projects) in such a way that the respective results can be fed back into the project process. The accompanying research focuses on the sustainability of the developed projects and tries to work out success factors and obstacles of the project development in cooperation with the project participants.

Publications

Alisch, Monika / Patricia Hofmann (2015): Dabeisein ist eben nicht alles - Partizipationsrealitäten von Projektverantwortlichen und Projektnutzenden. In: Alisch, M. (ed.): Sozialraum und Governance. Action and negotiation in social space development. Contributions to Social Space Research, Vol. 12. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers. S. 157-177.

Alisch, Monika (2018): "Either in front of the counter or behind it": Barriers and opportunities for participation in the cooperation of professionals, committed persons and addressees in community-based projects "against poverty". In: Anhorn, Roland, Keim, Rolf, Rathgeb, Kerstin, Stehr, Johannes (eds.) Politik der Verhältnisse - Politik des Verhaltens: Widersprüche der Gestaltung Sozialer Arbeit. Springer VS: Wiesbaden. S. 201-212.