Evaluation & Facilitation
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 projec ...
The concept of feminist evaluation gets a great deal of attention these days. Is it just a new label for gender-sensitive evaluation? Given that even gender-sensitive evaluation seems to be a challenge for many evaluation teams and evaluation manage ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued a guidance document on Applying a Human Rights and Gender Equality Lens to the OECD Evaluation Criteria. It is wonderful to have this new resource - but a few shortcomings ...
A 2019 post from my former blog developblog.org, which I ran from 2008 to 2021. --- Internal evaluation can be an excellent way to check the quality of one's work, to track progress (in programmes or projects, for instance) and to gather informa ...
A May 2019 blog post from my former blog, www.developblog.org --- Evaluations come in many shapes and sizes. I have led multidisciplinary teams in multi-year assignments, and carried out smaller assignments all by myself. Last year was a lucky ...
A post from my former blog www.developblog.org, which I will take offline soon. --- It is the early afternoon of the second workshop day; the participants are a bit drowsy from a rich lunch; messages have piled up in their smartphones and some pe ...
This is a favourite post from my former blog, www.developblog.org, which I will soon remove from the web (after 15 years...). The post dates from from 2019 but little has changed since then - only that more people are starting to talk about equitabl ...
This post is part of a series of contributions to my former blog www.developblog.org, hosted by a different platform for a whooping 15 years (since 2008)! I am closing down the old blog and moving some interesting reading to this, new setting. The f ...
This is a blog post written in 2020. I have taken it from my old blog, www.developblog.org, which I will close down later this year. --- Evaluations often come with terms of reference (TOR) that discourage even the most intrepid evaluator. A freq ...
This is a blog post from 2020, moved from my former blog www.developblog.org which I will take offline near the end of this year. --- Gender equality is a key element of sustainable development – as illustrated in the Sustainable Development Goal ...