Evaluation & Facilitation
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 ...
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 ...