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.
Why are we still evaluating yesterday’s world to plan for tomorrow’s challenges? Evaluation after evaluation describes what happened in the past without grappling with what is emerging. This post argues for a fundamental reorientation of evaluation practice.
Evaluation professionals increasingly work where evaluation and transformation meet – yet few truly navigate this space. This post introduces the evaluation-transformation nexus - evaluation OF, FOR, AS and In transformation - and its use when working on complex change.
"I am going to analyse the data with statistics". "I am going to apply statistical thinking to my data". "I am going to use logistic regression to analyse my data". The first statement is true but useful only to point at a realm of
I re-post this post - originally published on Evidence Matters of EvalPartners - as illustration of an integrated approach to determining and understanding individual capacity development and empowerment, using theory-based evaluation as well as a tailored "Four Powers" framework with the awesome acronym AWSEM. A side note: we
The guidance is an important step. The updated criteria have even more easy-to-ignore demands stacked under each one. For more about the debates around their merit and usefulness, see my critical 2018 blog post series on the DAC criteria. The posts solicited many thoughtful comments from around the
I hope you will appreciate this interesting and pertinent blog post. I was in Beijing in 2003 at the inaugural meeting of IDEAS. Still quite new to evaluation, I was told that the impressive person taking the floor was famous in development evaluation circles. Our subsequent interactions over the years
I connected with Daniel in 2019 when I was given access to a draft of the GIZ paper he discusses here. I found it more insightful than most - and important. A single intervention is seldom sufficient for systems transformation, but we know an intervention can be designed and implemented in
Osvaldo is one of the most knowledgeable professionals I have ever met - a veritable walking encyclopaedia of all matters related to evaluation. Over the years it has been a feast for me to meet up and occasionally work with him, among others as members of the International Evaluation Advisory Committee
A dispassionate observer of Planet Earth from far away could well be pleased with this global crisis faced by all of humanity. The suffering of those hardest hit, in particular those individuals and societies already vulnerable or fragile, makes it hard for us who are part of it to think
