**8 min read** I connected with Daniel in 2019 when I was given access to a draft of the GIZ paper he discusses here. I found it more insightful than most – and important. A single intervention is […]
Guest post: Getting ready for transformational projects Read More
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,
Lost in the loss of travelling the world Read More
**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
Guest Post: Narratives, Stories and Memes Read More
**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 6. Extraordinary benefits Read More
**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
COVID-19, Part 5. COVID-safe, COVID-ready and COVID-informed evaluation Read More
**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 4. Accelerating Read More
**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 3. Adapting Read More
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 2. Repositioning Read More