Development Archives - EVALUATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Evaluation for Transformation 1. Can we please get beyond ‘buzzwords’?

July 10, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2

Can evaluation help enable and support transformative development? We know we need the latter. Yet like sustainability, transformation (or transformative change) and transformative development are these days frequently dismissed as ‘buzzwords’ (or even worse, as ‘fuzzwords’). This is a very ... Read more »

Snippet: Evaluators in Davos – and DED

January 25, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2

There are no evaluators this week in Davos. We are clearly not among the most powerful in the world. Yet I have always hoped that the very nature of our practice would enable us to contribute significantly and visibly to ... Read more »

Sustaining (development) impact

March 10, 2017 Zenda Ofir 0

These days we talk a lot about “sustainable development”. And about “evaluating impact”. But I continue to maintain that it is useless to evaluate the impacts of an intervention without focusing on whether such impacts have a good chance to ... Read more »

No, I am NOT a “development evaluator”. I evaluate FOR development.

February 21, 2017 Zenda Ofir 1

I do not do “development evaluation”. I do not practice the evaluation OF development. I evaluate FOR development. There is a difference. These days we are told that the need for the special category called “development evaluation” has receded because ... Read more »