Blue Marble Evaluation Archives - EVALUATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Guest Post: Narratives, Stories and Memes

June 13, 2020 Sandra Waddock 1

**7 min read** How can we evaluate well if we are not aware of the often ‘single stories’ that shape how we view the world and do our work? This aspect of evaluation has been an important focus for me ... Read more »

Guest Post: Dynamic Evaluation for Societal Transformation

April 28, 2020 Osvaldo Feinstein 0

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 work with ... Read more »

Transforming Evaluations and COVID-19, Part 4. Accelerating change in practice

April 20, 2020 Zenda Ofir 0

**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 sharing some ... Read more »

Transforming Evaluations and COVID-19, Part 3. Advice for this time

April 13, 2020 Zenda Ofir 6

**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 the impact ... Read more »

Hello, I am COVID-19 …

April 11, 2020 Zenda Ofir 2

**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 advisories written ... Read more »

Transforming Evaluations and COVID-19, Part 2. Repositioning evaluation

April 9, 2020 Zenda Ofir 0

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 to force ... Read more »

Transforming Evaluations and COVID-19, Part 1. A GPS for complex terrain.

March 29, 2020 Zenda Ofir 10

**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 with research, ... Read more »

Ten vital competencies for post-normal evaluation, Part 3

March 14, 2020 Zenda Ofir 2

**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 of past ... Read more »