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Polycrisis

We live in an era of converging, interacting crises, creating megatrends, trends and weak to strong signals related to climate, conflict, inequality, shifts in power, breakdown of the old international order, and more. These posts explore what the polycrisis means for evaluation FOR, OF, AS and IN transformation; how the field must respond; and what ‘fit for purpose’ looks like during this polycrisis era. A Global South lens infuses the posts.
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
4 min read
10
Jul
Towards Transformation, 1. The buzzword

Towards Transformation, 1. The buzzword

Can evaluation help enable and support transformative development? We know we need the latter. Yet like sustainability, transformation (or transformative
5 min read
07
Nov
The DAC criteria, Part 10. Sleepwalking towards irrelevance

The DAC criteria, Part 10. Sleepwalking towards irrelevance

We are sleepwalking towards irrelevance. Not because we do not do some worthwhile things. We do. But because those with
7 min read
02
Nov
The DAC criteria, Part 9. Our responsibilities

The DAC criteria, Part 9. Our responsibilities

Our evaluation criteria are fundamental to the credibility and utility of our evaluations. Yet we have allowed one set of
4 min read
06
Oct
The DAC criteria, Part 2. Why change?

The DAC criteria, Part 2. Why change?

Given the good contributions of the DAC criteria noted in Part 1 of this series, let us now turn to
7 min read
17
Sep
This idea must die!

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
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
09
Mar
Evaluation – a Beautiful Practice

Evaluation – a Beautiful Practice

Is evaluation beautiful? This post argues that evaluation as profession and practice is intrinsically beautiful — rooted in millennia, engaging our deepest capabilities. But how we practise it is often not. A meditation on evaluation’s true value proposition.
6 min read