Recent Posts
16
Nov
Guest post: Learning from Failure. Lessons for Evaluators and Organisations
**4 min read**
Experience of failure is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, one can hide it, blame it
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13
Nov
Ten tips for shifting to systems-informed evaluation
**3 min read**
As one of three facilitators at a recent 3-day workshop organised in Connecticut by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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14
Sep
Competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 3
**6 min read**
One thing is certain: the proficiencies and abilities that will help us deal with the world in
4 min read
12
Sep
Competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 2
**6 min read**
Skill 6. Deep Generalists
In order to be a good evaluation professional, it is essential to see
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03
Sep
Competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 1
**8 min read**
"Are modernity's blueprints for evaluation theory and practice exhausted?" Only now and again
6 min read
16
Jul
Guest post: The etcetera of Transformative Evaluation
Umberto Eco, in the opening pages to his book The Infinity of Lists provides evaluators with a ticklish challenge: stability
3 min read
30
Apr
Learning from China’s Transformation, Part 6. Co-evolution - a ‘first principle’.
Yuen Yuen Ang's study of China's exceptional escape from its poverty trap in just 3-4 decades
5 min read
26
Apr
China's Transformation, Part 5. Directed improvisation
**8 min read**
This series of blog posts highlights lessons from one of the greatest transformative development success stories ever.
8 min read
22
Apr
China's Transformation, Part 4. Dominant narratives, alternative perspectives
**10 min read**
We need fresh narratives about how the world works, and why, and what to do to solve
6 min read
18
Apr
China's Transformation, Part 3. Seeing through others' eyes
**5 min read**
Some years ago I was on an evaluation assignment in the Mekong region, dealing with labour issues.
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