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18
Dec
When can we claim 'success'?

When can we claim 'success'?

I have long thought that evaluators don't define 'success' in meaningful ways. Now highly respected economist
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14
Dec
Donna Mertens

Donna Mertens’ Top Tips for YEEs. Youthful Energy Contribution to the Pursuit of Transformative Evaluation

The final session of the 2018 American Evaluation Association meeting was devoted to engaging with youth in evaluation; the wonderful
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10
Dec
Glenn Page's Top YEE Tips: Ecological stewardship in evaluation

Glenn Page's Top YEE Tips: Ecological stewardship in evaluation

As a restoration ecologist who has come to embrace the power of evaluation to better understand systems change, help develop
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28
Nov
Apollo Nkwake's Top YEE Tips: Assumptions-aware evaluation

Apollo Nkwake's Top YEE Tips: Assumptions-aware evaluation

Assumptions are what we believe to be true. They may be explicit or implicit. Unexamined or tacit assumptions can be
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23
Nov
Jennifer Greene's one Top YEE Tip

Jennifer Greene's one Top YEE Tip

Top Tip. Make sure you recognise and internalise the multiple facets of evaluation as a social practice. The practice of
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09
Nov
Rob van den Berg’s Top Tips for YEEs

Rob van den Berg’s Top Tips for YEEs

As Professor at King's College London on evaluation of sustainable development I encounter many students who hesitate or
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28
Sep
Donna Podems' Top YEE Tips

Donna Podems' Top YEE Tips

Hi. I am Donna Podems, and I am an evaluator. For the past 23 years I have conducted and guided
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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/
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21
Sep
Guest Post: The resilience of evaluation in turbulent times

Guest Post: The resilience of evaluation in turbulent times

What dominates the world we live in today is the highly unsustainable fossil fuels addiction that is inducing upon us
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18
Sep
Responsibility of intellectuals

The Responsibility of Evaluators

What is the responsibility of evaluators in the era in which we live today? This is one of the issues
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