In this episode, Dr. Wand reviews the Humber Polytechnic International Development Institute (https://humber.ca/global/international-development-institute-idi) $4.9 Million Bhutan Education and Skills Training project Performance Measurement Framework (PMF). He concludes that Humber Polytechnic cannot make the claim that it has achieved 9 of the 11 expected Outcomes for the project since the outcome indicators are either not valid measures of the Outcomes and/or contain conflicts of interest for 25 out of 29 Outcome Indicators where project staff rather than independent evaluators have been responsible for data collection on these Outcome Indicators.

Even for the remaining 2 Outcomes that contain 4 valid Outcome Indicators, there is no inferential statistical analysis p<.05 to support the claim that observed percentage increases on the indicators would be statistically signficant to support the claim that the project was effective in achieving its outcomes.

Details about the project can be found here: https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/p010696001

The PMF and Dr. Wand's critique are available by emailing evaluatecanadaaid@gmail.com.

The PMF and the critique will be shared with Humber Polytechnic along with an invitation for them to respond to the critique by attending a future podcast. It will also be shared with the Secretary of State for International Development as well as the shadow critics for all the opposition parties.

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