In this short series of posts about the NICE Framework I argue for more intensive and creative research and innovation in evaluation - especially research that is rooted in, and respectful of important nuances in different societies. We need to create a strong research agenda for evaluation with solid linkages to
We still have many opportunities to re-imagine evaluation and to combine this with the best evaluation knowledge we already have available. Indigenous evaluators in Latin America, as well as nearly all evaluators in Africa and Asia can still do much to consider what evaluation would have looked like "
It is in the West, primarily in the US, where systematic evaluation as we practice it today originated sometime in the early part of the last century. (Of course, we should remember that the Chinese were the first to develop systematic evaluative action for decision-making already during the Han
