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Prescriptive assumptions relate to the intervention or strategy devised to address 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. This chapter appraises the use of goal evaluation and strategy assessment to explicate prescriptive assumptions and proposes the alternative strategies approach.
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, pp. 582–87)
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Nkwake, A.M. (2020). Prescriptive Assumptions. In: Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33004-0_9
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