An interesting post on the Learning Portal for Design, Monitoring and Evaluation for Peacebuilding that focuses on communicating evaluation findings and brings forward three tips for those who hope to influence decisions with evaluation data: Answer the right questions; Speak their language; Be humble. Read the full post >>
intelligent measurement: Communicating Evaluation Findings: Advice from the Field
May 13, 2013 By
intelligent measurement: Insights into NGO advocacy evaluation
April 25, 2013 By
A group of leading NGOs have published a comparative study (pdf) on what they are doing in practice on advocacy evaluation. Participating NGOs are: ActionAid International, Amnesty International, Bread for the World, CARE USA , Greenpeace International, ONE, Oxfam and the Sierra Club. Following is a summary from the study: For organizations committed to social […]
intelligent measurement: Webinar – Presenting evaluation findings and evidence-based organizational learning
April 18, 2013 By
I’m happy to announce that next week – Friday April 26th – I’ll be participating in a webinar presented by SEA Change community of practice. Further details and link to registration: This webinar titled “Presenting evaluation findings and evidence-based organizational learning” has been developed based on requests by SEA Change CoP members to learn more […]
intelligent measurement: Eight short webinars on evaluation
April 11, 2013 By
The BetterEvaluation website is partnering with the American Evaluation Association to present a series of short webinars (20 minutes each) on evaluation in May 2013, subjects covered include: Define What Is To Be Evaluated Understand Causes of Outcomes and Impacts Synthesise Data from One or More Evaluations Report and Support Use of Findings More information>>
intelligent measurement: 5th European Summit on Measurement announced
April 1, 2013 By
“Unlocking business performance- The role of communications research and analytics” is the theme of the 5th European Summit on Measurement of PR and communications – to be held in Madrid from 5 -7 June, 2013. The Summit is presented by AMEC, the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication. The Summit will include […]
intelligent measurement: The voices of affected populations in evaluation
March 16, 2013 By
The notion of listening to the voices of the affected populations is nothing new in humanitarian evaluation. However, in the past there has been a lot of talk with little action. The Listening Project is one of the first structured and global initiatives to look at this issue – not only from the evaluation perspective […]
intelligent measurement: Blogging the evaluation process
March 6, 2013 By
Blogging and other social media are often used as part of a communicating evaluation results – that is, once the evaluation is finished. However, blogging can also be useful to communicate the evaluation process – that is, as the evaluation is collecting data. I’ve recently been involved in a stakeholder consultation for the Joint […]
intelligent measurement: Webinar – Humanitarian Standards – too much of a good thing? on Feb 28
February 22, 2013 By
For those readers interested in humanitarian assessment and evaluation, this webinar that I am co-hosting may be of interest: Webinar – Humanitarian Standards – too much of a good thing? on Feb 28, 2013 2:00 PM GMT Are you interested in driving up the quality and accountability of humanitarian action? The Joint Standards Initiative (JSI) […]
intelligent measurement: The ultimate social network mapping software?
February 13, 2013 By
It could have been predicted…The most sophisticated network mapping tool of social networks has been developed for espionage… “A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.” Read more>>
intelligent measurement: Visualizing Information for Advocacy
January 20, 2013 By
Just came across this interesting guide(pdf) to using visuals for advocacy from the Tactical Technical Collective – here is an explanation from the authors: Visualising Information for Advocacy(pdf): An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact. This […]