What does a community‐centric approach to impact assessment look like? That is the central question addressed in this article. Our community‐centric perspective provides an alternative to discipline‐centric approaches to impact assessment that emphasize specific methodological gold‐standards (e.g., randomized controlled trials [RCTs] in development economics). Disciplinary approaches to impact assessment owe their principal allegiance to the discipline's knowledge‐creation norms. Consequently, the concerns, interests, and voices of community members are not fully captured in the impact assessment process. In this article, we flip the conventional perspective to offer a community‐centric view of impact assessment that places the concerns, interests and voices of community members front and center. We present the case for why we need a community‐centric approach to impact assessment and clarify its axiological content, theoretical perspective, and methodological stance. Specifically, we advocate for a relational axiology, a system‐theoretic perspective, and a phenomenological methodology.

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构想以社区为中心的方法在生存市场中进行影响评估

以社区为中心的影响评估方法是什么样的？这是本文要解决的中心问题。我们的以社区为中心的观点提供了一种替代以学科为中心的影响评估方法的方法，该方法强调特定的方法学黄金标准（例如，发展经济学中的随机对照试验[RCT]）。影响评估的学科方法主要归功于该学科的知识创造规范。因此，在影响评估过程中并未充分体现社区成员的关注，兴趣和声音。在本文中，我们将翻转常规视角，以社区为中心进行影响评估，从而将社区成员的关注，兴趣和声音放在首位和中心位置。我们介绍了为什么我们需要以社区为中心的方法进行影响评估并阐明其价值论内容，理论观点和方法论立场的案例。具体来说，我们提倡关系价值论，系统理论观点和现象学方法论。