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About this Blog

I stand in practice. I lead and facilitate evaluations, and guide evaluative efforts across the world. But I also immerse myself in knowledge to gain insights across diverse fields that can inform my work and life.

In this blog I write about several topics, which you will find as you scroll down the home page. In my posts you will find recurrent themes.

• The need to understand and take into account the 'big picture' influences on whatever we do - whether framing, designing, operationalising or evaluating.
• Evaluation as a practice that recognises the urgency of systems change and transformation in an era defined a global polycrisis and state of permacrisis. In the Global South, this means seeking how to escape poverty traps while aiming for sustainable, regenerative living. In the Global North, this means seeking how to end excessive over-consumption, the exploitation of societies in the Global South, and the destruction of our ecosystems and planetary commons. For all, this means living in harmony with one another, reducing our human footprint, and treating Earth and life in all its forms - living and non-living - with respect.
• The need to cross multiple boundaries - geographic, cultural, disciplinary, sectoral, methodological, generational and ideological - to gain insights for life and work.
• The need to look at all matters - including assessments - from multiple perspectives for nuance and depth.
• Development and evaluation viewed through a complex adaptive systems lens, recognising our interconnections and their implications for how we think and do our work.
• The transformation of evaluation as a field and practice fit for this time.