Evaluation as profession and practice Archives

Evaluation, COVID-19 and the future – Part 1

March 29, 2020 Zenda Ofir 1

**6 min read** We are at a transformative moment in the history of humankind and of our planet. During this extraordinary time and beyond, the global evaluation community will have to hone and reposition evaluation, in close alignment with research, ... Read more »

Ten vital competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 3

March 14, 2020 Zenda Ofir 0

**6 min read** One thing is certain: the proficiencies and abilities that will help us deal with the world in an era defined by the Anthropocene, the SDGs and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are quite different from those of past ... Read more »

Ten vital competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 2

March 12, 2020 Zenda Ofir 0

**6 min read** Do we as evaluation professionals need a dramatic shift in our thinking about evaluation competencies if we are to contribute powerfully to the changes the world needs now? Where do we start to think about the competencies ... Read more »

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

November 16, 2019 Ahmed Aboubacrine 12

It is a pleasure to have Ahmed Aboubacrine as guest blogger on the interesting and pertinent issue of how to think about ‘failure’ from different perspectives. Our paths have crossed many times at evaluation conferences and I always appreciated both ... Read more »

Snippet: Ten tips to start shifting to systems-informed evaluation

November 13, 2019 Zenda Ofir 1

**3 min read** As one of three facilitators at a recent 3-day workshop organised in Connecticut by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) on ‘Assessing Systems Change’, I shared the following tips to inspire evaluation professionals to start integrating (complex) systems thinking ... Read more »

Ten vital competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 1.

September 3, 2019 Zenda Ofir 0

Ten essential competencies for post-normal evaluation

**8 min read** “Are modernity’s blueprints for evaluation theory and practice exhausted?” Only now and again one finds provocative questions and insights during an evaluation conference keynote. A keynote that is Innovative. Thought-provoking. Visionary. In 2018, renowned evaluation scholar Thomas ... Read more »

Guest Post – The Efficiency Criterion. Can we make better use of it?

April 12, 2019 Michaela Raab & Jasmin Rocha 0

**6 min read** This guest post was written by Michaela Raab and Jasmin Rocha, both based in Berlin, Germany. The OECD/DAC criteria have been under review and debate since 2018. As Zenda Ofir explained in her widely discussed blog series, ... Read more »

Snippet: How data visualisation can mislead

January 9, 2019 Zenda Ofir 4

**2 min read** We live in an era of ‘big data’ and ‘big information’. We work in an increasingly quantified world devoid of the nuance that qualitative information provides. We also live in an era of ‘scanning’. We don’t want ... Read more »