Today “TheGuardian” website published an article on monitoring and evaluation of development projects. The subtitle of the article is: “Providing evidence for funders might seem unimportant when you’re saving lives, but it is vital to improving de…
Evaluation Space: "Monitoring and evaluation. It doesn’t sound like a whole heap of fun…"
December 5, 2012 By
Evaluation Space: CREAM or SMART or both?
December 3, 2012 By
Good goals should meet SMART criteria. They should be:- Specific,- Measurable, – Attainable,- Relevant,- Time-bound.Good indicators should meet CREAM criteria. They should be:– Clear (precise and unambiguous)– Relevant (appropriate to the subj…
Evaluation Space: What’s real?
October 29, 2012 By
This kid is playing guitar. Guitar is fake. Music in his soul is real. Are evaluators always able to make such a distinction?Here is the story. This boy was 2,5 years old at that time. He said: “Let me play my guitar.” Then he took the ‘guitar’ an…
Evaluation Space: Threat
October 26, 2012 By
Yesterday in the presentation on evaluator competencies I mentioned a worrisome trend in the evaluation market that I described as increased quasi-demand for quasi-evaluation of quasi-programs. It seemed to resonate. Several people talked to …
Evaluation Space: One thing evaluation associations should never do
October 23, 2012 By
Evaluation associations should not provide evaluation services to the external clients. This is extremely important for sustainability of associations. Let me explain why. Evaluation associations serve their members and develop profession. If they…
Evaluation Space: Are evaluation associations competing with each other?
October 19, 2012 By
The answer is YES, they are! Of course, evaluation associations are uniqe organizations that serve their members and are oriented towards development of evaluation profession. But it would be a big mistake to deny the existence of competition between t…
Evaluation Space: Tracking consultant’s time and expenses
October 15, 2012 By
As an evaluation consultant I often work on several projects at the same time. It means that during one day I may spend some time working on one project, then switch to another project, and so on. Sometimes I charge the same client on an hourly basis f…
Evaluation Space: BetterEvaluation
October 4, 2012 By
BetterEvaluation website went live yesterday. This is a very comprehensive (I would say a unique!) new web-based resource for anyone who is managing evaluations, conducting evaluations or is simply interested in learning more about evaluation.
Evaluation Space: Evaluation conference as a mirror of evaluation capacity development
October 1, 2012 By
Evaluation Capacity Development Group (ECDG) is a U.S. 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in 2004 with a mission “to bring together diverse perspectives dedicated to developing evaluation capacity within organizations through tools, resources, an…
Evaluation Space: Overcoming interdisciplinary barriers: observation on one trend in evaluation capacity development in the region
September 30, 2012 By
One of the unique features of evaluation capacity development in our region is that we can observe the genesis and development of evaluation profession. At the same time we can see far more advance stages of evaluation development in the other parts of…