Sustaining (development) impact
These days we talk a lot about “sustainable development”. And about “evaluating impact”. But I continue to maintain that it is useless to evaluate the impacts of an intervention without focusing on whether such impacts have a good chance to sustain.
No, I am NOT a “development evaluator”. I evaluate FOR development.
I do not do "development evaluation". I do not practice the evaluation OF development. I evaluate FOR development.
RQ+ - assessing research quality
This blog post is about how to measure research quality when viewing research from a systems perspective. We all work
This idea must die!
My last two blog posts addressed the issue of Grand Challenges in evaluation. A complementary idea: A type of '
Grand Challenges, Part 2
In my previous post I highlighted the notion of Grand Challenges and where they have been developed. In this post
Grand Challenges, Part 1
In July 2014 I wrote a short paper for EES Connections in which I asked whether the time was right
Lives of equal value
Back to blogging after a hiatus of three months during which I travelled too frequently for work assignments. Pressurised schedules
Valuing evaluation, Part 3
No, I don't equate evaluation with toilet paper made of gold - even if it costs a cool