Evaluation & Facilitation
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 ...
…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 ...
The other day a friend told me something slightly shocking. They felt it made no sense anymore to commission external evaluations - because evaluation quality was shoddy and hardly anyone read the reports, anyway. To see someone draw the conseque ...
Nobody reads evaluation reports. Very few people read the executive summary. What can we do? Evaluation-interested visual designers (like Chris Lysy with his wonderful evaluation cartoons) advocate for visual reports. This week I have done my first ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...