Communitor and Asia Pacific Journal of Evaluation (APJE) decided to extend the submission deadline of papers for a Special Issue of APJE focusing on the theme: “Is community-based monitoring (CBM)/citizen science contributing to making evaluation more future proof?”. The interested authors may submit a long abstract until the 9th of January, 5 pm. More particularly, this Special Issue seeks submissions on topics such as the following:
• Contribution of CBM/citizen science to the field of evaluation
• Contemporary issues, challenges and/or opportunities of CBM/citizen science
• CBM/citizen science and link to local/indigenous knowledge and culture responsive evaluation
• Mobile CBM/citizen science (and big data)
• CBM/citizen science in fragile or conflict contexts
• Innovations in CBM/citizen science.
For this Special Issue of APJE, authors are required to first submit a long abstract (between 800- 1,000 words), which shall undergo blind reviews. The long abstract shall include the motivation and objectives of the paper, the methodology, the preliminary findings and the conclusion. Authors of selected paper abstracts will be asked to prepare a PowerPoint and/or video based on the first draft version of their paper to be presented in a seminar in Tanzania (either onsite or online). The seminar will be organized by the Communitor network in February 2023. After the presentation in Tanzania, the first draft of the paper shall be revised by the author/s considering the comments and suggestions they will receive. The revised full paper (between 5,000-6,000 words) shall be submitted to undergo the second stage of review. Selected papers based on the blind review process shall be included in the Special Issue. All submissions shall be sent to the following e-mail addresses: apje.apea@gmail.com; alellie.sobrevinas@dlsu.edu.ph; shyam@irma.ac.in; nathalie.holvoet@uantwerpen.be; sara.dewachter@uantwerpen.be.
Authors should take note of the following important dates:
• Submission of long abstracts: January 9th, 2022
• First blind reviews & selection of papers: by February 1st, 2023
• PowerPoint presentations & discussion: to be communicated to the authors of the selected abstracts
• Submission of full papers: July 1st, 2023
• Finalizing the second blind reviews of full papers: October 15th, 2023
• Final versions of papers: December 15th, 2023.
For more details about the submission guidelines, please, have a look at the file below (though take into account the change deadlines change)
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