Development Archives - EVALUATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

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 »

Grand Challenges for Evaluation? Part 2

September 9, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

In my previous post I highlighted the notion of Grand Challenges and where they have been developed. In this post I raise issues to consider when we think about whether the evaluation profession should have its own set of Grand ... Read more »

Lives should have equal value

September 3, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

Back to blogging after a hiatus of three months during which I travelled too frequently for work assignments. Pressurised schedules do not support writing, but I am hoping to change this over the next month on the road from Beijing ... Read more »

SDG Evaluation Call to Action 2: Consider macro influences on development

May 10, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

In 15 years I have not conducted a single evaluation where I did not ask many questions about the reasons why things were working well, or not so well – and triangulating from different perspectives and sources of ... Read more »

More about the Call to Action 1: Evaluation is crucial for SDG success!

April 30, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

Here is a concise and useful (I hope!) briefing by EVALSDGs on the value proposition of evaluation for the SDG era. In my previous post I highlighted the first “Call to Action” that flowed from my analysis of lessons for the ... Read more »

More about value propositions

April 29, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

No, I don’t equate evaluation with toilet paper made of gold – even if it costs a cool US$1.3 million. (I know, this is definitely fodder for jokes). But I want to use the image to make a serious point: ... Read more »

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