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18
Jul
Guest Post: How can evaluation step up to the transformational challenge?

Guest Post: How can evaluation step up to the transformational challenge?

This guest post by Sam Buckton gives us a brief insight into what I consider to be a pioneering paper
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15
Jul
Guest Post: Principles for Transforming Economics

Guest Post: Principles for Transforming Economics

This is a very important guest post by three eminent transformation specialists whom I greatly appreciate as people and as
4 min read
25
Sep
Towards Transformation, 2. Interactions between the SDGs

Towards Transformation, 2. Interactions between the SDGs

If you read this year only one set of papers useful for SDG related evaluation, let it be this ISC/
9 min read
03
Oct

RQ+ - assessing research quality

This blog post is about how to measure research quality when viewing research from a systems perspective. We all work
17
Sep
This idea must die!

This idea must die!

My last two blog posts addressed the issue of Grand Challenges in evaluation. A complementary idea: A type of '
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09
Sep
Grand Challenges, Part 2

Grand Challenges, Part 2

In my previous post I highlighted the notion of Grand Challenges and where they have been developed. In this post
6 min read
06
Sep
Grand Challenges, Part 1

Grand Challenges, Part 1

In July 2014 I wrote a short paper for EES Connections in which I asked whether the time was right
4 min read
03
Sep
Lives of equal value

Lives of equal value

Back to blogging after a hiatus of three months during which I travelled too frequently for work assignments. Pressurised schedules
4 min read
10
May
SDG Evaluation Call to Action 2: Consider macro influences on development

SDG Evaluation Call to Action 2: Consider macro influences on development

In 15 years I have not conducted a single evaluation where I did not ask many questions about the reasons why things were working well, or not so well – and triangulating from different perspectives and sources of information.
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30
Apr
Evaluation and the SDGs, Part 1

Evaluation and the SDGs, Part 1

Here is a concise and useful (I hope!) briefing by EVALSDGs on the value proposition of evaluation for the SDG
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