 I am a South African scientist and full-time international evaluator. Although I work across the world, I concentrate on Africa and Asia, and deeply care about the development challenges facing the Global South. This blog is aimed at those of us who want to stay up to date with current issues and trends in evaluation across the world. I tend to focus on transformative change, development as complex adaptive system, and the evolution of societies and ecosystems in harmony with one another, and within planetary boundaries. |
Topics
 Culture in evaluation |
 Development, SDGs & Transformation |
 Research evaluation |
 Methodologies & Innovations |
 Evaluation as profession and practice |
 Top Tips for Young and Emerging Evaluators |
Latest Posts
Updating the DAC Criteria, Part 11 (FINAL). From Evaluation Criteria to Design Principles
**10 min read** Evaluation criteria used in development contexts do not only show what evaluation commissioners, evaluators and other stakeholders value. They also provide an indication of the issues that could – and ...
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Updating the DAC Criteria, Part 10. Sleepwalking towards irrelevance
**8 min read** We are sleepwalking towards irrelevance. Not because we do not do some worthwhile things. We do. But because those with power – and evaluation professionals in general – appear to ...
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Donna Podems’ Top Tips for YEEs
**5 min read** I met Donna around 15 years ago when she asked me to interact with the class she was instructing in South Africa. I was immediately struck by her commitment, expertise ...
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Evaluation for Transformation, Part 2. Interactions between the SDGs – and beyond
**10 min read** If you read this year only one set of papers useful for SDG related evaluation, let it be this ISC/Nilsson et al. series on the interactions between the SDGs, developed ...
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Weronika Felcis’s Top Tip not only for YEEs: The resilience of evaluation in turbulent times
**8 min read** Apart from being a leader in evaluation in different capacities, Weronika is one of the most thoughtful evaluation specialists I have ever met. Her perspectives on evaluation strongly resonate and ...
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The Responsibility of Evaluators
**3 min read** What is the responsibility of evaluators in the era in which we live today? This is one of the issues I raised in my keynote presentation at the UK Evaluation ...
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