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In recent years, for the first time in Italy, impact evaluation has been requested as a standard for social projects implemented by public-private partnerships and, more specifically, a condition for them to be financed through the national educational poverty reduction program. This article presents and discusses the Developmental Outcome Monitoring and Evaluation (DOME) model, a mixed and participatory method for the impact assessment of complex and innovative educational poverty reduction programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il saggio riferisce dell'esperienza di valutazione realizzata all'interno del Progetto per l'inclusione dei bambini RSC nella città di Napoli (2017-2019), nel quale si sono sperimentate strategie di contrasto delle forme più intense e gravi di povertà educativa minorile. Il suddetto esercizio ha rappresentato un laboratorio particolarmente proficuo sotto due profili: da una parte, ha consentito una più precisa messa a fuoco dei caratteri specifici delle forme, ad oggi ancora poco considerate, di povertà educativa minorile "estrema"; dall'altra, ha evidenziato come i caratteri di complessità di queste fattispecie non rendano queste policy valutabili attraverso strategie analitiche standard, ma che invece richiedano l'adozione di disegni di tipo riflessivo, diretti all'accompagnamento e alla promozione dei cambiamenti (outcome) in una logica di tipo developmental. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the links and interdependences between new trends in post-Fordist globalization and the current direction of migration flows and migrants’ projects in Italy. On the one hand, thousands of migrants are arriving as stowaways or asylum seekers due to political and economic tensions from the Syrian crisis and elsewhere in the Arab world. At the same time, an increasing number of highly-skilled youths are leaving Italy in order to seek insertion in more dynamic knowledge-based economies. Informed by Foucault’s approach to biopolitics, this work critically considers the ‘complementary heterogeneity’ of these migratory flows as a focal point and examines them in the structural context produced by the post-2007 crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]