Evaluation and learning have been central themes throughout my three decades of experience in international cooperation.

Back at my country/regional desks with UN and major non-governmental organisations, I commissioned, managed and used evaluations… or tried to use them. I carried out internal evaluations. I even represented the evaluand, i.e., the subject of an evaluation.

As a consultant since 2008, I have designed and carried out dozens of evaluations, solo and as a leader in diverse teams, across the world. I have reviewed hundreds of evaluation reports, analysed their quality and synthetised their findings. I have carried out research on evaluation quality. As an advisor, I have contributed to strengthening (monitoring and) evaluation systems. I have managed evaluations on behalf of clients, and strengthened their management response. In recent years, I served on the World Food Programme’s Evaluation Methods Advisory Panel, reviewing evaluations and providing real-time methodological advice in organisation-wide evaluations.

That is why I am passionate about facilitating evaluation. 
Evaluations don’t need to be unpleasant. Reports don’t need to be a dull formality. Purposeful facilitation makes evaluations better and more useful.