BetterEvaluation for Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs)

Every evaluator's journey is unique. The skills, knowledge and competencies you need to thrive in the field of evaluation are determined by a multitude of factors, including your personal interests, the context in which you work, and your career aspirations.

With this in mind, you might like to explore several areas of the BetterEvaluation site to help you navigate your own unique path.

Methods and approaches

When planning an evaluation, it's important to choose appropriate methods and processes for your specific situation. Get started here:

  • Choose methods and processes

    For any task in evaluation, the choice of method or process should be based on what is appropriate for your particular situation. 

  • Rainbow Framework
    The Rainbow Framework organises these methods and processes in terms of the tasks that are often undertaken in M&E.

Competencies

While the specific skills you'll need as an evaluator are highly contextual, there are certain underlying competencies that are important for evaluators to consider, regardless of their specific field or methodological approach. Our page on competencies has a number of competency guides from different organisations and regions.

  • Competencies

    It is important to consider the different types of capacities that are needed in different types of roles to plan, manage, undertake, and use M&E. 

Further education and other ways of learning

Strengthening your evaluation skills is a career-long endeavour, and there are many ways to do this. You can explore formal and informal education programs though our academic and training directories, and discover other ways to learn through our ‘Strengthen evaluation capacity’ page:

  • Global Directory of Academic Programs in Evaluation

    This directory provides information about academic programs in evaluation in different regions and countries across the globe. The directory has been designed to provide accessible information about academic programs in evaluation to prospective students and other interested parties worldwide.

  • GEI Training and Professional Development Programs

    This directory offers recurring M&E training and professional development activities provided by GEI partners to practitioners, decision-makers and other interested parties, and aims to foster knowledge sharing and collaboration among GEI partners and other peer institutions.

  • Strengthen evaluation capacity
    Choose ways of building on and developing capacity for managing, undertaking and/or using evaluation, which might involve human capital (knowledge and skills), organisational capital (such as technical and administrative infrastructure) and social capital (supportive networks).

Additional resources

If you have particular topics of interest, you can browse and search our content:

  • Evaluation Tools and Resources

    The BetterEvaluation Resource Library contains hundreds of curated and co-created resources related to managing, conducting, using, and strengthening capacity for evaluation.

  • Resource collections

    Browse our curated collections and series' of resources.

  • BetterEvaluation blog

    Shared knowledge and experience from the global evaluation community.

  • Search

    Find what you need by searching all content on BetterEvaluation.

Get involved

We work collaboratively with our global community to create, share and support use of knowledge about how to better plan, manage, conduct and use evaluation. We welcome your contributions, whether you'd like to suggest a resource or event, write a blog, have feedback you'd like to share or would like to be more involved in a content area.

  • Contribute content

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