Evaluation & Facilitation
This is a blogpost from 2021, moved from my former blog www.developblog.org which I will take offline later this year. Long-awaited new guidance on applying the evaluation criteria defined by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisati ...
A theory of change is a wonderful instrument to explore the „why“ and „how“ of an intervention. So why do evaluations make such patchy use of theories of change? Often, it is because evaluation questions ask mainly“how much“. This blog narrates how I have come to this conclusion.
Why do many evaluation reports yield only weak insights? Having worked in all three corners of the evaluation triangle – as an evaluator, as an evaluation commissioner / manager, and as a stakeholder in interventions under evaluation (the evaluands) ...
This year again, I feel privileged to serve on a panel of senior evaluators who advise a multilateral donor on evaluation approaches and methods. And this year again, I feel saddened by the widespread neglect of qualitative data collection. All eval ...
Silva Ferretti, a colleague in international evaluation, has written an inspiring post on AI in evaluation that she has kindly allowed me to reproduce here. Sit back and enjoy the read! >> I have been playing with Artificial Intelligence for some ...
This year, there are lots of interesting discussions on the use of artificial intelligence in evaluation. I have started trying out ChatGPT to help me find out about mainstream information/opinion on the subjects I have worked on, develop workshop p ...
Last year I followed an exhilarating course on qualitative data visualisation with the PME Campus (in German). Among many other things, we learned how to design infographics using online platforms that make it really easy. For the example below, I f ...
Last year I participated in a very enjoyable and informative course on qualitative visualisation with the PME Campus (in German). Among other things, we learned to design infographics. There are plenty of web-based platforms with a wealth of templat ...
DEval, the German Institute for the Evaluation of Development Cooperation, celebrated its 10th anniversary last night. It was a real-life event in a beautiful Berlin location bringing together an impressive crowd, including among others Svenja Schul ...
A few weeks ago I ended up as the virtual facilitator in a workshop that everybody else attended in 'real life', at a pleasant venue in the countryside - and it worked out nicely! Here is how we went about it. Spoiler: Sunshine and plenty of greener ...