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  • Enhancing evaluation use: Insights from internal evaluation units

    This book, co-edited by Marlène Läubli Loud and John Mayne, offers invaluable insights from real evaluators who share strategies they have adopted through their own experiences in evaluation.
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  • Blue Marble Evaluation

    Blue Marble Evaluation is a global initiative focused on training the next generation of evaluators to Think Globally, Act Globally and Evaluate Globally. 
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  • Adapting 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 changes
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  • 7 Strategies to improve evaluation use and influence - Part 1

    What can be done to support the use of evaluation? How can evaluators, evaluation managers and others involved in or affected by evaluations support the constructive use of findings and evaluation processes?  
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  • In search of Blue Marble Evaluators

    ​You can't see the Earth as a globe unless you get at least twenty thousand miles away from it.  On December 7, 1972, the first photograph was taken of the whole Earth from space.  That photo became known
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  • Evaluative thinking

    This set of webpages and video from the Department of Education in New South Wales, Australia, provides background information on evaluative thinking and its use.
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  • The core of evaluation: Evaluative thinking

    This AEA365 blog by Tom Grayson provides a list of quotes from notable evaluation colleagues about the importance of evaluative thinking.
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  • Evaluative thinking: SAMEA webinar

    In this webinar on evaluative thinking, Thomas Schwandt explores two perspectives on the topic.
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  • Identifying the intended user(s) and use(s) of an evaluation

    This guideline from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) highlights the importance of identifying the primary intended user(s) and the intended use(s) of an evaluation.
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