7. Guest Bloggers

Jo Puri’s Top YEE Tips: So, you want to be an evaluator?

I head the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund, an office that was founded only two years ago. Since ...
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Fabiola Amariles’ Top YEE Tips: Reflections on attitudes

**4 min** Zenda's invitation to contribute to her blog with some tips "from the Global South" for Young and Emerging Evaluators has ...
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Guest post: Integrated framework for the evaluation of Agenda 2030 in LAC

Sustainable development consists of satisfying the needs of the present generation without compromising the capacity of future generations to meet their own ...
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Donna Mertens

Donna Mertens’ Top Tips for YEEs. Youthful Energy Contribution to the Pursuit of Transformative Evaluation

**8 min read** The final session of the 2018 American Evaluation Association meeting was devoted to engaging with youth in evaluation; the ...
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Glenn Page’s Top YEE Tips: Ecological stewardship in evaluation

**8 min read** As a restoration ecologist who has come to embrace the power of evaluation to better understand systems change, help ...
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Apollo Nkwake’s Top YEE Tips: Assumptions-aware evaluation

**4 min read** Assumptions are what we believe to be true. They may be explicit or implicit. Unexamined or tacit assumptions can ...
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Jennifer Greene’s one Top YEE Tip

**3 min read** Top Tip. Make sure you recognize and internalize the multiple facets of evaluation as a social practice.  The practice ...
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Rob van den Berg’s Top Tips for YEEs

**7 min read** As Professor at King's College London on evaluation of sustainable development I encounter many students who hesitate or ponder ...
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Guest post. Drawing from Complexity Science to do Evaluation: Knowledge to Drive Operational Decisions

Jonny Morell is one of evaluation's sharpest thinkers in the realm of systems and complexity sciences. He is always exploring new frontiers, ...
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Guest post: Evidence use in Africa

This post introduces a book of great relevance in the fields of evaluation, governance and evidence use. Mine Pabari from Kenya and ...
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Guest post: The evaluation governance implications of transformative evaluation

I hope you will appreciate this interesting and pertinent blog post. I was in Beijing in 2003 at the inaugural meeting of ...
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Guest Post: Narratives, Stories and Memes

How can we evaluate well if we are not aware of the often 'single stories' that shape how we view the world ...
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Guest post: Learning from Failure. Lessons for Evaluators and Organisations

**4 min read** Experience of failure is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, one can hide it, blame it on others ...
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Guest post: The etcetera of Transformative Evaluation

Umberto Eco, in the opening pages to his book The Infinity of Lists provides evaluators with a ticklish challenge: stability supports the ...
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Guest post: The Efficiency criterion

**6 min read** The OECD/DAC criteria have been under review and debate since 2018. As Zenda Ofir explained in her widely discussed ...
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Leslie Goodyear’s Top YEE Tips

**4 min read** I'm Leslie Goodyear, and I have recently finished my year as president of the American Evaluation Association. In my ...
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