Zenda Ofir

10
Mar
Sustaining (development) impact

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.
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21
Feb
No, I am NOT a “development evaluator”. I evaluate FOR development.

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.
6 min read
03
Oct
Scientific Research Evaluation

RQ+ - assessing research quality

This blog post is about how to measure research quality when viewing research from a systems perspective. We all work
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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
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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
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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
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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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29
Apr
Valuing evaluation, Part 3

Valuing evaluation, Part 3

No, I don't equate evaluation with toilet paper made of gold - even if it costs a cool
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