Evaluation & Facilitation
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 ...
The evaluation budget is too small to give serious attention to the 45 evaluation questions you are supposed to answer within four weeks? Hanneke de Bode has the solution! She has shared a long rant about the contentious power of evaluations on a po ...
I am republishing this 2019 post because of a recent, heated discussion on a popular evaluation list server. It is about the harmful impact of excessive evaluation questions on evaluation quality. Writing evaluation terms of reference (TOR) - th ...
This is a rerun of a blog post I wrote a year before I started running training workshops on online facilitation (with the PME Campus, for example). All of what I wrote then is still valid. Since I have promised I would move some posts from my old b ...
In 2012, I published a post with the title above on my former blog. And I still see major evaluations with budgets running into hundreds of thousands of euros that come with a four-week inception phase, or that are supposed to start basically the da ...
Back in 2013 my colleague Wolfgang Stuppert and I carried out a written survey that did not involve any writing! A useful instrument when you work with people with limited literacy. This is a 'reprint' of the post I wrote on my former blog (developb ...
Videoconferences can be too revealing. Not just for people who forget to switch off their camera/microphone during breaks, only to blow their nose trumpet-style or even poke it (believe it or not, I still witness such moments)! Interior decoration ...
The German evaluation society DeGEval has published a discussion paper (in German) that provides guidance for remote evaluation. It is based on experienced evaluators' lessons from more than a year of remote evaluation. The term "remote evaluati ...
Your interviewee speaks via a mobile phone and their signal is too bad for a proper, two-way (remote) interview. What can you do? Reschedule the conversation? Opt for an 'e-mail interview' instead? A new, hybrid method emerged in an interview I carr ...