Evaluation professionals increasingly work where evaluation and transformation meet – yet few truly navigate this space. This post introduces the evaluation-transformation nexus - evaluation OF, FOR, AS and In transformation - and its use when working on complex change.
"I am going to analyse the data with statistics". "I am going to apply statistical thinking to my data". "I am going to use logistic regression to analyse my data". The first statement is true but useful only to point at a realm of
I re-post this post - originally published on Evaluating Sustainable Development Goals. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." "It is well for the heart to be naïve and for the mind not to be."
I re-post this post - originally published on Evidence Matters of EvalPartners - as illustration of an integrated approach to determining and understanding individual capacity development and empowerment, using theory-based evaluation as well as a tailored "Four Powers" framework with the awesome acronym AWSEM. A side note: we
I am re-posting here a blog post I wrote in 2017 (Part 5 in my DAC Evaluation Criteria series). I want to highlight aspects of what I had written at the time, not about the criteria as such, but to reinforce some of the arguments I made about the
I connected with Daniel in 2019 when I was given access to a draft of the GIZ paper he discusses here. I found it more insightful than most - and important. A single intervention is seldom sufficient for systems transformation, but we know an intervention can be designed and implemented in
Osvaldo is one of the most knowledgeable professionals I have ever met - a veritable walking encyclopaedia of all matters related to evaluation. Over the years it has been a feast for me to meet up and occasionally work with him, among others as members of the International Evaluation Advisory Committee
Experience of failure is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, one can hide it, blame it on others or just ignore it. On the other hand, it could be transformed into an incredible learning opportunity provided that it is studied, its underlying causes are identified, and more importantly,
As one of three facilitators at a recent 3-day workshop organised in Connecticut by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) on 'Assessing Systems Change', I shared the following tips to inspire evaluation professionals to start integrating (complex) systems thinking into their practice. Many already do this without even realising
Umberto Eco, in the opening pages to his book The Infinity of Lists provides evaluators with a ticklish challenge: stability supports the definitions of a finite form of list, while instability requires a reforming of an idea with the recognition that the list of its attributes is likely to contain
