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Tag Archives: Transformation

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

December 14, 2018 Donna Mertens 6
Donna Mertens
**8 min read** I had the pleasure of getting to know Donna at an AEA conference many years ago. Since then, our paths have crossed again and again – including in 2007 when we invited her to participate at the ... Read more »

Updating the DAC Criteria, Part 11 (FINAL). From Evaluation Criteria to Design Principles

October 13, 2018 Zenda Ofir 6
Challenges
**10 min read** Evaluation criteria used in development contexts do not only show what evaluation commissioners, evaluators and other stakeholders value. They also provide an indication of the issues that could – and likely should – be a focus in ... Read more »

Updating the DAC Criteria, Part 10. Sleepwalking towards irrelevance

October 10, 2018 Zenda Ofir 10
Geological Time Spiral
**8 min read** We are sleepwalking towards irrelevance. Not because we do not do some worthwhile things. We do. But because those with power – and evaluation professionals in general – appear to be unaware or unmoved by much of ... Read more »

Evaluation for Transformation, Part 2. Interactions between the SDGs – and beyond

September 25, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2
Key Interactions
**10 min read** If you read this year only one set of papers useful for SDG related evaluation, let it be this ISC/Nilsson et al. series on the interactions between the SDGs, developed between 2016 and 2018, as well as ... Read more »

Weronika Felcis’s Top Tip not only for YEEs: The resilience of evaluation in turbulent times

September 21, 2018 Weronika Felcis 0
Resilience of evaluation
**8 min read** Apart from being a leader in evaluation in different capacities, Weronika is one of the most thoughtful evaluation specialists I have ever met. Her perspectives on evaluation strongly resonate and align with mine – including the content ... Read more »

Updating the DAC Evaluation Criteria, Part 9. Our responsibilities, our obligations

August 16, 2018 Zenda Ofir 0
Updating the DAC Evaluation Criteria
**6 min read** Our evaluation criteria are fundamental to the credibility and utility of our evaluations. Yet we have allowed one set of criteria – the DAC criteria – to dominate the focus of our evaluations. What they become, or ... Read more »

Updating the DAC Evaluation Criteria, Part 8. A Global South, Global North lens on evaluation – 2.

August 10, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2
SDG index
**10 min read** In my previous post I started to make the case for the evaluation of transformative change and transformative development in a way that recognises the differences between what we call the Global South and Global North, and ... Read more »

Updating the DAC Evaluation Criteria, Part 8. A Global South, Global North lens on evaluation – 1.

August 8, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2
**6 min read** Now that the concept of “developing” and “developed” countries is at last unfashionable, is a special focus on “development evaluation” still useful? Is the less emotive, more palatable Global South / Global North terminology more appropriate, and ... Read more »
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