**9 min read** I re-post this post – originally published on Evidence Matters of EvalPartners – as illustration of an integrated approach to determining and understanding individual capacity development and empowerment, using theory-based evaluation as well as a […]
Diamonds for AWARD: Evaluation and the quest for African Women Science Leaders Read More
**7 min read** I am re-posting here a blog post I wrote in 2017 (Part 5 in my DAC Evaluation Criteria series). I want to highlight aspects of what I had written at the time, not about the
The Non-sense of Evaluating ‘Development’ Read More
**3 min read** The OECD DAC just published their long-awaited guidance on the appropriate application of the (in)famous DAC evaluation criteria which were updated and adopted on December 2019. Everyone who uses the criteria should study this useful
The DAC Criteria Guidance 2021 Read More
**5 min read** This post introduces a book of great relevance in the fields of evaluation, governance and evidence use. Mine Pabari from Kenya and I met more than 15 years ago when we both worked as consultant
Guest post: Evidence use in Africa Read More
**5 min read** I hope you will appreciate this interesting and pertinent blog post. I was in Beijing in 2003 at the inaugural meeting of IDEAS. Still quite new to evaluation, I was told that the impressive person
Guest post: The evaluation governance implications of transformative evaluation Read More
Osvaldo is one of the most knowledgeable professionals I have ever met – a veritable walking encyclopaedia of all matters related to evaluation. Over the years it has been a feast for me to meet up and occasionally
Guest Post: Dynamic Evaluation for Societal Transformation Read More
**3 min read** As one of three facilitators at a recent 3-day workshop organised in Connecticut by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) on ‘Assessing Systems Change’, I shared the following tips to inspire evaluation professionals to start integrating (complex)
Ten tips for shifting to systems-informed evaluation Read More
**6 min read** One thing is certain: the proficiencies and abilities that will help us deal with the world in an era defined by the Anthropocene, the SDGs and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are quite different from those
Competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 3 Read More