COVID-19
Conducting Evaluations Virtually (Fall 2020 Webinar Series Skills for the 21st Century Evaluator)
Adapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 — Part 3: FRAME
13th August 2020 by Alice Macfarlan
Evaluation needs to respond to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. As well as direct implications for the logistics of collecting data and managing evaluation processes, the pandemic has led to rapid changes in what organisations are trying to do and how evaluation can best be used to support these changes.
When Conflict and COVID Collide: Towards a Risk Analysis Framework (IEG Live Event Fragility Forum 2020)
Rethinking the model of international MEL: What must we do differently to overcome MEL challenges in a post-COVID world?
First 100 Days of a Pandemic: Canada’s Resilient Global Response
Adapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 — Part 2: DEFINE
28th May 2020 by Patricia Rogers
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to rapid changes in the activities and goals of many organisations, whether these relate to addressing direct health impacts, the consequential economic and social impacts or to the need to change the way things are done. Evaluation needs to support organisations to use evidence to plan these changes, to implement them effectively, and to understand whether or how they work – in short to articulate an appropriate theory of change and use it well.
How can we use evaluation to support decision-making and reflection in this time of community crisis?
A guide containing examples of supportive evaluation activities for organisations and leaders managing COVID-19 response efforts.
Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown – Practical and ethical considerations
"How can qualitative researchers collect data during social-distancing measures? Adam Jowett outlines several techniques researchers can use to collect data without face-to-face contact with participants. Bringing together a number of previous studies, he also suggests such techniques have their own methodological advantages and disadvantages and that while these techniques may appear particularly apt during the coronavirus crisis, researchers should take time to reflect on ethical issues before re-designing their studies."
