Evaluation & Facilitation
This is the continuation of the blog I started back in 2008 in https://developblog.org. Looking forward to reading your comments!
Nobody reads evaluation reports. Very few people read the executive summary. What can we do? Evaluation-interested visual designers (like Chris Lysy with his wonderful evaluation cartoons) advocate for visual reports. This week I have done my first visual report and it has been incredibly helpful. I had written my evaluation report and a reasonably crisp executive summary. I had interspers ...
The terms of reference are the main guiding document for evaluations. If you commission evaluations, there are some common pitfalls to avoid. I have summarised them in this infograph!
How to make sure an evaluation happens at the appropriate moment, is well-prepared, well-designed and carried out to fulfil its purpose in the best attainable way? When you commission an evaluation, you want it to be done well and to yield exactly the kind of information you look for. When you manage an evaluation, you want to optimise conditions for that to happen - within the level of effor ...
Last year I carried out a review of evaluations of programmes and projects in (post-) conflict contexts that worked with survivors of sexualised and gender-based violence (SGBV). As the evaluation reports tended to yield limited information on the data collection and analysis processes, I interviewed some of the evaluators, focussing on those based in the countries or regions of the intervent ...
This post shares my experience with a hybrid evaluation in a team of peers, and plea for more unorthodox cooperation in evaluations. Last year I carried out an evaluation as part of a team of three researchers – two from the country of the project to be evaluated (in Asia), plus me working online from Germany. All of us were quite senior professionals, but only I had proven evaluation expertis ...