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Recently, I had the good fortune to start collaboration with The MasterCard Foundation, which is strongly committed to what it calls ‘listening deeply and elevating voices’.BlogBetterEvaluation community's views on the difference between evaluation and research
In May we blogged about ways of framing the difference between research and evaluation. We had terrific feedback on this issue from the international BetterEvaluation community and this update shares the results.BlogWeek 51: How do evaluation managers contribute to better evaluation use?
Evaluation is a powerful tool that can provide useful, evidence-based information to help inform and influence policy and practice.BlogFive ways to celebrate 2015 - the International Year of Evaluation!
Welcome to the International Year of Evaluation!BlogImpact Evaluation: Best Practices Aren’t (MQP rumination #4)
Designating something a “best practice” is a marketing ploy, not a scientific conclusion. Calling something “best” is a political and ideological assertion dressed up in research-sounding terminology.BlogDeveloping a research agenda for impact evaluation
Impact evaluation, like many areas of evaluation, is under-researched. Doing systematic research about evaluation takes considerable resources, and is often constrained by the availability of information about evaluation practice.BlogBig data and evaluation: Use and implications
Big data is emerging as a new world currency.BlogParticipation not for you? Four reflections that might just change your mind
This month we start a series on participation in evaluation by Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt. This blog series aims to explore one simple question: How can we best open up evaluation processes to include those intended to benefit from a specificBlogOfficial launch of the Francophone Network of Emerging evaluators (RF-Ee)
The Francophone Network of emerging evaluators (RF-Ee) was officially launched on May 26, 2015 in Montreal, Quebec at the 36th conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society.BlogCommunicating evaluation to non-evaluators
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has published a “10 things to know about evaluation” infographic, in support of theBlogPositioning participation on the power spectrum
In the second blog in the 4-part series about participation in evaluation, Irene Guijt and Leslie Groves focus on making power relationships and values in 'participatory' evaluation processes explicit to avoid tokenistic partBlogChoices about voices
In this third blog in the participation in evaluation series, Irene Guijt and Leslie Groves share frameworks to approach and make decisions about the level of stakeholder involvement during different evaluation stages.BlogStill Hesitating? Let's bust some myths around increasing stakeholder participation in evaluation
In the final blog in the 4-part series, Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt address some of the most common forms of resistance to increasing levels of participation in evaluation.BlogSupporting use of evaluation findings - examples
These examples have been contributed for discussion at the 'flipped conference' session of the American Evaluation Association to be held Saturday (November 11, 2017) 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM in the Thurgood Marshall North Room. Example 1 - UsiBlogScaffolding new methods - examples
These examples have been contributed for discussion at the 'flipped conference' session of the American Evaluation Association to be held at 11.15am - 12 noon on Saturday November 11, 2017 in the room Thurgood Marshall East, at the Washington Marriott WardBlogWhy do programs benefit from developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks?
This guest blog is by Anne Markiewicz, Director of Anne Markiewicz and Associates, a consultancy that specialises in developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks.BlogScaffolding new methods
We have all been there. You dive into a new book or head to a conference/workshop/course and come out all fired up about a new evaluation method. But when you get back to the real world, applying it turns out to be harder than you thought! What next?BlogSupporting the use of evaluation findings
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'vBlogConversations to have when designing a program: Fostering evaluative thinking
The first step in evaluating a program is knowing whether you can evaluate it – that the program is ‘evaluable’.BlogThanks for taking part in our user survey - here's what we've learnt
We've now completed the first component of our user research - the user survey.Blog7 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?Blog7 Strategies to improve evaluation use and influence - Part 2
This is the second of a two-part blog on strategies to support the use of evaluation, building on a session the BetterEvaluation team facilitated at the American Evaluation Association conference last year.BlogUser personas and user journeys - key parts of our UX process
A few months ago we started gathering data on the user experience (UX) of the BetterEvaluation website.BlogThree ways to improve your DataViz
If you’re like me, you think you’ve got a pretty good handle on data visualisation – you know how to make basic customisations to graphs in Excel, you know you should probably think carefully about whether or not to put that large tablBlogEvaluating C4D Resource Hub: Launch at the Social and Behaviour Change Summit
On April 16 over a thousand communication for development (C4D) researchers and practitioners descend on Indonesia for the Social and Behaviour Change Summit (SBCC).BlogIntroducing the Evaluating Communicating for Development (C4D) Resource Hub
In this blog post, Jessica Noske-Turner introduces a newly launched section of the BetterEvaluation website - the Evaluating C4D Resource Hub - and discusses how and why this new area was developed.BlogHow do we use advisory groups effectively in evaluation?
This guest blog by Marlène Läubli Loud aims to start a discussion about what advisory group practices work well in what situations.BlogThree templates for effective communications planning
In this blog, I wanted to share three examples of communication plan templates that address this and allow for more detail and thinking through of the communication and dissemination process.BlogHow to choose, develop, and support innovation in evaluation
This blog is an abridged version of the brief Innovations in evaluation: How to choose, develop and support them, written by Patricia Rogers and Alice Macfarlan.BlogFrom paper to practice: Supporting the uptake of high-level M&E frameworks
Evaluation frameworks are often developed to provide a common reference point for evaluations of different projects that form a program, or different types of evaluations of a single program.BlogConsulting on the “Big 5” evaluation criteria - What got us here? [x-post from the IEG's #WhatWorks blog]
In this post, Caroline Heider (Director General and Senior Vice President, Evaluation, World Bank Group) reflects on the motivations behind her 2017 Rethinking Evaluation blog series.BlogPathways to professionalisation - Part 1: Professionalisation within the context of the AES
In part 1 of this two-part blog series, greet Peersman and Patricia Rogers introduce the ‘Pathways to advance professionalisation within the context of the AES’ project and report.Blog