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Updating the DAC Criteria, Part 10. Sleepwalking towards irrelevance

October 10, 2018 Zenda Ofir 10

**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

**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

**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

**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

**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 »

Updating the DAC Evaluation Criteria, Part 7. Let these ideas die!

July 20, 2018 Zenda Ofir 3

The many discussions I have recently had about the effort that is now in place to get to DAC evaluation criteria 2.0 have prompted me to write a few more posts in this series. It will also be a bridge ... Read more »

Evaluation for Transformation 1. Can we please get beyond ‘buzzwords’?

July 10, 2018 Zenda Ofir 4

Can evaluation help enable and support transformative development? We know we need the latter. Yet like sustainability, transformation (or transformative change) and transformative development are these days frequently dismissed as ‘buzzwords’ (or even worse, as ‘fuzzwords’). This is a very ... Read more »