Evaluative practice needs to focus on three interconnected, overlapping priorities if we want to help lead action towards a transformed world. I like to call them 'COVID-Safe', 'COVID-Ready' and 'COVID-Informed' Evaluation. COVID-Safe Evaluation: Coping in this emergency Papers, blog posts
Do you agree with the following five observations? If so, the time is right for evaluation professionals to align. By 'align' I do not mean coordination or doing away with healthy competition. I refer to sharing some broad goals as evaluation professionals who wish to contribute to the
"We won't get back to normal because normal was the problem." - Graffiti in Santiago, Chile It is great to see evaluators leaping into action with advice on how to adjust practice to cope with the impact of the coronavirus. This could be a transformative moment also
In my view elevator speeches that present evaluation as something done for "learning", "improving", "generating knowledge" or "being accountable" belong to the past. COVID-19 is part of humanity's footprint on Earth, part of the Anthropocene. It is going to
We are at a transformative moment in the history of humankind and of our planet. During this extraordinary time and beyond, the global evaluation community will have to hone and reposition evaluation, in close alignment with research, as a GPS that can help humanity navigate the complex, uncharted terrain that
A while ago Michael Quinn Patton urged us in one of our Young and Emerging Evaluator posts to share the 10 evaluation classics that inspire us most. And now we have the great phenomenon on Twitter - #SHELFIES! That special shelf of books you most often refer to in your work,
