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Guest Bloggers

Valued colleagues and emerging voices write here on a wide range of subjects, bringing fresh perspectives, diverse experiences and new energy to the conversations this site explores. Young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) often receive special attention, given their role in the future of the evaluation and transformation fields, and in the world.
15
Jul
Guest Post: Principles for Transforming Economics

Guest Post: Principles for Transforming Economics

Three eminent transformation specialists – Sandra Waddock, Petra Kuenkel and Steve Waddell – present ten principles for transforming economics. A powerful argument for moving beyond extractive models towards regenerative economic systems that serve people and planet.
5 min read
12
Nov
Guest post. Drawing from Complexity Science to do Evaluation: Knowledge to Drive Operational Decisions

Guest post. Drawing from Complexity Science to do Evaluation: Knowledge to Drive Operational Decisions

"I am going to analyse the data with statistics". "I am going to apply statistical thinking to
3 min read
13
Feb
Guest post: Evidence use in Africa

Guest post: Evidence use in Africa

This post introduces a book of great relevance in the fields of evaluation, governance and evidence use. Mine Pabari from
4 min read
08
Feb
Guest post: The evaluation governance implications of transformative evaluation

Guest post: The evaluation governance implications of transformative evaluation

I hope you will appreciate this interesting and pertinent blog post. I was in Beijing in 2003 at the inaugural
4 min read
13
Jun
Guest Post: Narratives, Stories and Memes

Guest Post: Narratives, Stories and Memes

How can we evaluate well if we are not aware of the often 'single stories' that shape how
5 min read
16
Nov
Guest post: Learning from Failure. Lessons for Evaluators and Organisations

Guest post: Learning from Failure. Lessons for Evaluators and Organisations

Experience of failure is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, one can hide it, blame it on others or
3 min read
16
Jul
Guest post: The etcetera of Transformative Evaluation

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
12
Apr
Guest post: The Efficiency criterion

Guest post: The Efficiency criterion

The OECD/DAC criteria have been under review and debate since 2018. As Zenda Ofir explained in her widely discussed
5 min read
08
Apr
Leslie Goodyear's Top YEE Tips

Leslie Goodyear's Top YEE Tips

I'm Leslie Goodyear, and I have recently finished my year as president of the American Evaluation Association. In
3 min read
28
Mar
Jo Puri's Top YEE Tips: So, you want to be an evaluator?

Jo Puri's Top YEE Tips: So, you want to be an evaluator?

I head the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund, an office that was founded only two years
3 min read