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 ...
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 ...
Silva Ferretti, a colleague in international evaluation, has written an inspiring post on AI in evaluation that she has kindly allowed me to reproduce here. Sit back and enjoy the read! >> I have been playing with Artificial Intelligence for some ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...