Evaluation & Facilitation
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 ...
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 informa ...
This is a favourite post from my former blog, www.developblog.org, which I will soon remove from the web (after 15 years...). The post dates from from 2019 but little has changed since then - only that more people are starting to talk about equitabl ...
This post is part of a series of contributions to my former blog www.developblog.org, hosted by a different platform for a whooping 15 years (since 2008)! I am closing down the old blog and moving some interesting reading to this, new setting. The f ...
This is a blog post written in 2020. I have taken it from my old blog, www.developblog.org, which I will close down later this year. --- Evaluations often come with terms of reference (TOR) that discourage even the most intrepid evaluator. A freq ...
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 ...