1. The Big Picture
We Have to Rethink Human Rights, Part 2
Beyond One Universal Model In Part 1 of this two-post series I argued that the current dominant narratives about human rights, ...
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We Have to Rethink Human Rights, Part 1
How would you react if I told you that 'universal human rights' are not actually universal at all, but rather a ...
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* Why are we still evaluating yesterday's world to plan for tomorrow's challenges? Evaluation after evaluation that land on my desk ...
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“What went wrong with woke?” The problem of measurement and influence.
How twisted narratives and simplistic measures can destroy a major effort to do good. What does this mean for evaluation / MEL? ...
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Eight Reasons for Hope and Optimism. And why we need to seize this moment.
Despite Trump's bulldozing of the world, and the vulnerabilities, uncertainties and trauma affecting many societies, this time of polycrisis is also a ...
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Seven Reasons for Outrage. And why anger is not the answer.
In our hyperconnected world it is hard to escape bad news. It is easy to get distressed or angry, yet we ...
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The Power(lessness) of Evaluation: The case of Afghanistan
Thanks to more than 60 evaluation reports over 13 years by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), we have a ...
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We need Mission Thinking, Moonshot Thinking, and Mission-Oriented Evaluation if we are to ensure evaluation is fit for purpose for this era. ...
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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 ...
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Towards Transformation, 1. The buzzword
Can evaluation help enable and support transformative development? We know we need the latter. Yet like sustainability, transformation (or transformative change) and ...
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As the powerful gather in Davos this week, it is a good time to reflect on the WEF's excellent Global Risks Report ...
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In my previous post I highlighted the notion of Grand Challenges and where they have been developed. In this post I raise ...
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In July 2014 I wrote a short paper for EES Connections in which I asked whether the time was right for the ...
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Evaluation and the SDGs, Part 1
Here is a concise and useful (I hope!) briefing by EVALSDGs on the value proposition of evaluation for the SDG era. In ...
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