Competitive champions versus cooperative advocates: Understanding advocates for evaluation

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This study explores how individuals working in Australian non-profit organisations act as evaluation advocates, promoting evaluation through motivation, collaboration, and alignment with organisational goals.

The research was developed as part of Alison Rogers' PhD thesis Competitive champions versus cooperative advocates: Understanding advocates for evaluation in non-profit organisations.

The study may enable evaluators and decision makers to engage with non-evaluators and invite involvement using the term "advocate" instead of "champion", which may be more acceptable and appropriate.

This article includes a field guide to facilitate the identification, recruitment, support, and development of evaluation advocates.

Webinar: Making evaluation engaging

This webinar shares findings from the research:

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Rogers, A.F., Gullickson, A.M., King, J.A., & McKinley, E. (2022). Competitive champions versus cooperative advocates: Understanding advocates for evaluation. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 18(42), 73–91. https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v18i42.721

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  • Information sheets: Evaluation advocates

    This series of seven information sheets compiles examples and strategies from evaluation advocates on how they increased the engagement of the people with whom they were working on evaluation initiatives.

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