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Competencies

What capabilities do evaluators need for this polycrisis era? Posts here explore evaluation competencies, professional development, and the skills and dispositions required to span multiple boundaries — geographic, sector, disciplinary, generational, stakeholder, ideological — while working across complexity, culture and transformation.
30
Aug
Michael Patton's one Big YEE Tip

Michael Patton's one Big YEE Tip

There is a lot to learn as a Young and Emerging Evaluator. You need to know methodological alternatives. You need
3 min read
16
Aug
Benita Williams's Top YEE Tips

Benita Williams's Top YEE Tips

For young and emerging evaluators there is plenty of advice about how to gain the necessary skills and knowledge, and
1 min read
14
Aug
Juha Uitto's Top YEE Tips

Juha Uitto's Top YEE Tips

Unprecedented wildfires, deadly heatwaves, extraordinary floods, storms and droughts from California to Sweden, from Greece to Japan. The northern summer
3 min read
03
Aug
Fred Carden's Top YEE Tips: 'Whose knowledge' matters!

Fred Carden's Top YEE Tips: 'Whose knowledge' matters!

Whatever methods and frameworks we use, we tend to rely on the scientific, the 'objective' data and evidence;
2 min read
31
Jul
Zenda's Top YEE Tips 2

Zenda's Top YEE Tips 2

While the five 'Top Ten Tips' in my previous post for Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs) related more
8 min read
26
Jul
Zenda's Top YEE Tips 1

Zenda's Top YEE Tips 1

Given my 17-year long experience in evaluation, what are the top tips I would give to Young and Emerging
6 min read
26
Apr
Oh for the Love of Sticky Notes! The Changing Role of Evaluators Who Work with Foundations.

Oh for the Love of Sticky Notes! The Changing Role of Evaluators Who Work with Foundations.

Julia Coffman is one of our best-known evaluation leaders working primarily with foundations. I always think of her as
1 min read
25
Mar

AWSEM! A framework for empowering women scientists

In one of my recent posts I wrote about the pervasive influence of power on development, and the imperative to
5 min read
23
Mar
An evaluation agenda for our time

An evaluation agenda for our time

The Fourth Industrial Revolution? Klaus Schwab provides an intriguing analysis of the context within which the ambitions expressed in the
5 min read
21
Mar
Seven lessons for the SDG era

Seven lessons for the SDG era

Evaluation is entering an exciting period - one that will challenge us all to think in new ways and to focus
4 min read