08
Sep
Evaluation Maturity Models
**3 min read**
Have you ever worked with a Research Maturity Model? Or an Evaluation Maturity Model? A 'maturity
3 min read
Evaluation as Practice
28
Jul
Economists, aid and RCTs
**5 min read.**
"Aid projects might yield satisfying micro-results, but they generally do little to change the systems that
5 min read
14
Feb
Dialogue evaluation
Many years ago, at the beginning of my evaluation career, I read about 'dialogue evaluation'. It is a
2 min read
13
Feb
Evaluation as risk management
Evaluators' power and influence are limited. There are several reasons for this situation. One relates to how our craft
2 min read
09
Feb
Definitions and glossaries
Definitions of terms are crucial for common understanding in any field of human endeavour. The diversity of actors entering and
3 min read
13
Jan
Updating the DAC Evaluation Criteria, Part 6: Concluding summary
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5 min read
10
Mar
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.
4 min read
21
Feb
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
17
Sep
This idea must die!
My last two blog posts addressed the issue of Grand Challenges in evaluation. A complementary idea: A type of '
2 min read
29
Apr
Valuing evaluation, Part 3
No, I don't equate evaluation with toilet paper made of gold - even if it costs a cool
4 min read