Evaluation & Facilitation
The OECD Quality Standards for Development Evaluation and the related "Better Criteria for Better Evaluation" are major references for evaluations in international development cooperation. They have been crafted and revised (in a global consultation ...
For an evaluation to be useful, it needs to be well prepared, typically in the inception phase: That is the moment when evaluators familiarise themselves with what they are supposed to evaluate (the evaluand). For instance, a kick-off workshops woul ...
Good communication is important if you want an evaluation to be useful. There is too much bad communication in the world of evaluation. We have a big jargon problem, hiding our work behind pompous labels and acronyms, and presenting our findings so ...
Everyone can contribute to more equality between genders and people in general, regardless of one's gender, age, skin tone, social class and other aspects. Everyone can do that from their current place in society. But people who are near the top of ...
…play a part in good evaluation. Of course! A friend challenged me on my last-but-one post (Evaluation - a waste of money?), saying that better evaluation terms of reference (TOR) don‘t necessarily make better evaluations. The friend is right. Somet ...
It has been a year (already!) since the conference on theory of change (ToC) development organised by the Methods circle of DeGEval, the German Evaluation Society. We met at the impressive (1950s) premises of DeStatis, the Federal Statistical Office ...
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 t ...
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 ...