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Filter search resultsAdapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 — Part 3: Frame
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 changesBlogBetter ways of choosing and using metrics in evaluation of impact investing
We invited Mishkah Jakoet shares some thoughts on how metrics can be more useful for impact investing.BlogObjectives-Based Evaluation (OBE) for impact investing
Bob Picciotto is a former Director General of the Independent Evaluation Group which oversees evaluation in the International Finance Corporation, an agency dedicated to the promotion of private sector development in developiBlogIntroducing footprint evaluation
Given the numerous interconnected environmental crises the world faces, there is an urgent need to include consideration of environmental impacts into all evaluations.BlogAdapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 – Part 4: Describe
We’re continuing our series, sharing ideas and resources on ways of ensuring that evaluation adequately responds to the new challenges during the pandemic.BlogOutcome classification: A framework to tally outcome statements across projects
It’s one thing to look at project and program ratings to see how well the stated objectives of a portfolio of projects are being met.BlogRemembering John Mayne
This week we wanted to share and celebrate the important contributions to improving evaluation from John Mayne, a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society and twice recipient of the CES Award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada.BlogVale Marie Gervais
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Marie-Gervais in mid-December 2020. Marie, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University, Quebec, made a lasting contribution to the French-speaking evaluation community in CanadaBlogHappy New Year!
While we’re happy to wish the year 2020 farewell, many of the challenges and difficulties that arose over the past 12 months are still with us, as is the sadness over the many different forms of loss we’ve all experienced.BlogThe evaluator as facilitator: Considerations for good facilitation practice
Before I joined TCC Group as an evaluation and learning consultant, I was a therapist.BlogRapid evaluation
Eleanor Williams is the Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Research Evidence at the Victorian Department of Health. In this role, she leads the department's evaluation and research strategy.Blog52 Weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 39: Professional Development Opportunities
If you are looking to learn more and hone your skills in evaluation there has never been a better time to tap into any number of fantastic free or low cost professional development opportunities.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 40: How to find evidence and use it well
When reviewing evidence for decision-making, the first challenge is deciding how to choose which types of evidence to include.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 42: Using value for money in evaluation - a conversation
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 41: Recommended content from the BetterEvaluation community
You'll find hundreds of evaluation resources on the BetterEvaluation site. Some have come from recommendations by stewards. Some have come from our writeshop project or design clinics.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 43: Celebrating one year of BetterEvaluation
This week we're celebrating the first year of BetterEvaluation since it went live to the public in October 2012. Thank you to everyone who has contributed material, reviewed content, developed the website, and participated in live events.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 44: How can monitoring data support impact evaluations?
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 45: Participatory Video for M&E - unpacking how change happened
It is time for another blog series on BetterEvaluation, and this time we will be exploring the uses of video in evaluation.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 46: An ethnography of evaluation - learning about evaluation from the inside using video
Conveying the complexities of the evaluation process isn’t easy, but video is one way to tackle the challenge. Quimera is a film company which was contracted to record the process of evaluaBlog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 47: using video to communicate evaluation findings
In the last in our series of blogs on using video in evaluation, Glenn O'Neil joins us to discuss how you can use video to communicate your evaluation findings.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 48: What does COP19 mean for monitoring and evaluation professionals?
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 49: Evaluation e-learning in Spanish and Russian
While most of the evaluation resources on the BetterEvaluation site are in English, we're keen to provide access to resources in other languages. In 2014, making the site more accessible in different languages will be one of our priorities.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 51: Strategies for commissioning evaluations successfully
Earlier this year I co-taught a course on Evaluation for Public Sector Managers with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), using BetterEvaluation to structure the course aBlog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 52: Holiday gifts for everyone
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation Week 1: 2014 evaluation-related conferences [Updated 3rd Feb]
Happy New Year! As you start filling in your diaries and calendars (desk, wall or electronic), make some space for at least one of the evaluation conferences listed below.BlogWeek 2: Evaluation methods for large, complex, global initiatives
My 2014 evaluation events calendar was launched in earnest this week with a workshop hosted by the US Institute of Medicine focusing on evaluation methods and considerations for large-scale, complex, multBlogWeek 4: The top ten developments in qualitative evaluation over the last decade – part 1
Over the next two weeks, Michael Quinn Patton joins us to give his top ten trends in qualitative evaluation over the last decade. This week, he sets out the first five.BlogWeek 5: The top ten developments in qualitative evaluation over the last decade – part 2
Last week Michael Quinn Patton shared the first five of hisBlogWeek 6: Evaluation with and by, rather than for or of, children
BetterEvaluation hosted a webinar this week with Sonal Zaveri and Mallika Samaranayake of the Community of Evaluators South Asia, on working with children in evaluation.BlogWeek 7: Innovation in evaluation
This is the first in a series of blogs on innovation which includes contributions from Thomas Winderl and Julia Coffman.BlogWeek 8: Guest blog: Innovation in development evaluation
Development aid is changing rapidly – so must development evaluation.BlogWeek 9: Innovation in evaluation part 3: what’s the latest in advocacy evaluation?
Julia Coffman is Director of the Centre for Evaluation Innovation. In the third blog of our innovation in evaluation series, she looks some recent innovations in a notoriously tricky area: advocacy evaluation.Blog