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This is the continuation of the blog I started back in 2008 in https://developblog.org. Looking forward to reading your comments!

Trauma sensitivity in evaluation

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 ...

A plea for more unconventional, more localised evaluations

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 ...

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Do we need feminist evaluation?

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 managers, do we need feminist evaluation just now? If feminism focuses on gender inequality, will it help us to introduce stronger, broader equity orientati ...

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Good intentions in need of appropriate resourcing: OECD guidance on human rights and gender in evaluation

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 may make it hard to apply the guidance in real life. First, the good things! About half of the 60-page volume is dedicated to explaining how human ...

Internal evaluations need external perspectives

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 information for management decisions and longer-term learning. To make the most of such exercises, they should go beyond self-reflection. Especially for smal ...

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