Lost in the loss of travelling the world
This post was first published on Medium. My life is a tapestry of memories. Woven together to make up the fabric of my life. Like African fabrics, my memories come in a riot of colours – never boring, …
COVID-19, Part 6. Extraordinary benefits
**7 min read** A dispassionate observer of Planet Earth from far away could well be pleased with this global crisis faced by all of humanity. The suffering of those hardest hit, in particular those individuals and societies already …
COVID-19, Part 5. COVID-safe, COVID-ready and COVID-informed evaluation
**6 min read** Evaluative practice needs to focus on three interconnected, overlapping priorities if we want to help lead action towards a transformed world. I like to call them ‘COVID-Safe’, ‘COVID-Ready’ and ‘COVID-Informed’ Evaluation. COVID-Safe Evaluation: Coping in …
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COVID-19, Part 4. Accelerating
**9 min read** Do you agree with the following five observations? If so, the time is right for evaluation professionals to align. By ‘align’ I do not mean coordination or doing away with healthy competition. I refer to …
COVID-19, Part 3. Adapting
**4 min read** “We won’t get back to normal because normal was the problem.” – Graffiti in Santiago, Chile It is great to see evaluators leaping into action with advice on how to adjust practice to cope with …
COVID-19, Part 2. Repositioning
In my view elevator speeches that present evaluation as something done for “learning”, “improving”, “generating knowledge” or “being accountable” belong to the past. COVID-19 is part of humanity’s footprint on Earth, part of the Anthropocene. It is going …
COVID-19, Part 1. Earth has gone quiet
**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 …
Hello, I am COVID-19 …
**5 min read** A letter to humanity …. I received on my phone a beautiful video in Italian. It is unique — a letter to humanity. In the name of the coronavirus. Among the millions of messages and reports and …