Blogs

Why do programs benefit from developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks?

Anne Markiewicz's picture 10th January 2018 by Anne Markiewicz

This guest blog is by Anne Markiewicz, Director of Anne Markiewicz and Associates, a consultancy that specialises in developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks. Anne is the co-author, with Ian Patrick, of the text book ‘Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks’ (Sage 2016). She has extensive experience in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks for a wide range of different initiatives, building the capacity of organisations to plan for monitoring and evaluation.

Illustrating models and theories of change

clysy's picture 10th January 2018 by clysy

Chris Lysy, of Lysy Design, (and also known as Fresh Spectrum's 'evaluation cartoonist'), recently made our day by storifying an example of a logic model Patricia Rogers had previously created for the UNICEF Impact Evaluation Series in Brief 2: Theory of Change. With a few simple changes, Chris has managed to turn a rather static diagram into something that is more visually appealing and understandable to stakeholders.

He's kindly let us share it with you here, and you can find the original post along with more of Chris' writing on data design on the Lysy Design website along with help in telling the story of your data if you need it.

Participate in our user experience survey

Nick Herft's picture 28th November 2017 by Nick Herft

We've received a lot of useful feedback since launching our user experience survey. Alongside the positive, we've gained insight into some of the difficulties experienced when using and navigating the BetterEvaluation website.

Thank you to everyone who has completed the survey! All of this feedback has been incredibly helpful for us to understand what's working well and what needs improvement.

Supporting the use of evaluation findings

Patricia Rogers and Jane Davidson's picture 3rd November 2017 by Patricia Rogers and Jane Davidson

In this flipped conference session, we invite participants and evaluators, evaluation managers and evaluation capacity developers around the world to build and share knowledge about what can be done to support the use of evaluation findings after they've been reported.

Together we will explore these questions:

Q1. What are the different options for supporting the use of evaluation findings once reporting has been done?

What are some options and processes to help stakeholders articulate how they think a program works? (AES17 co-creation challenge #1)

BetterEvaluation team's picture 28th September 2017 by BetterEvaluation team

The material from BetterEvaluation comes from a combination of curating existing material and co-creating new material.  This blog is part of an ongoing series about material that we have co-created with BetterEvaluation users. It shares material that was jointly developed through a challenge process at the 2017 Australasian Evaluation Society conference in Canberra in September.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this co-creation challenge!

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