28
Sep
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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Methodology
Methodology is more than methods. It is about how we think about knowledge, evidence and rigour, and whose ways of knowing shape the choices we make. Posts here explore methodological thinking especially at the evaluation-transformation nexus — evaluation OF, FOR, AS AND IN transformation — from technical design and mixed methods to epistemological foundations, complexity-or living systems responsive approaches, and what methodological fitness for purpose in this time of polycrisis demands.
18
Sep
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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15
Sep
Deborah Rugg's Top YEE Tips: The 12 secret Ps of success
Deborah is a highly successful, dynamic and influential evaluation professional with boundless energy that inspires wherever she goes - including many
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08
Sep
Evaluation Maturity Models
Have you ever worked with a Research Maturity Model? Or an Evaluation Maturity Model? A 'maturity model' with
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06
Sep
Julian Barr's Top YEE Tips
Others in this series will, I trust, give you useful technical tips on evaluation designs, methods, data collection and analytical
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28
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 6. A NICE research agenda for evaluation
In this short series of posts about the NICE Framework I argue for more intensive and creative research and innovation
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25
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 5. Applying the NICE Framework
We still have many opportunities to re-imagine evaluation and to combine this with the best evaluation knowledge we already
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23
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 4. The NICE Framework
It is in the West, primarily in the US, where systematic evaluation as we practice it today originated sometime in
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16
Aug
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
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14
Aug
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
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