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Prescriptive assumptions relate to the intervention or strategy devised for the problem or to reach a stated objective, which represents stakeholders’ beliefs of what could be the best ways to address the problem or need. The use of goal evaluation and strategy assessment for explicating prescriptive assumptions is appraised. The alternative strategies approach is proposed.
Dialogue about contested meanings cannot be about the object meanings being contested but must delve into the underlying beliefs, assumptions, and experiences which contextualize and thus signify the focal objects in multiple ways
Myers 1995, p. 582
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Nkwake, A.M. (2013). Prescriptive Assumptions. In: Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4797-9_9
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