This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. New and Noteworthy The new and noteworthy reads for March 2020 are focused on the new and noteworthy virus – COVID-19. “Noteworthy” is an understatement that does not describe the gravity this virus has and will continue to have on our lives for years to come. As such, here are the latest evaluation resources focused on COVID-19 […]
Stop overthinking: Minimum Viable Product
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. MINIMUM WHAT?!? Ok. What are we talking about? A minimum viable product – MVP in short – is a product with just enough features to gather validated learning about a possible intervention or product. It is deliberately imperfect; any additional work on it beyond what was required […]
Evaluating in the Developing World: A Canadian Evaluator’s Perspective
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Up until one month ago my evaluation experience was firmly rooted in Canada. From my academic endeavours to my career as an evaluator, I carried a perspective very specific to Canada and the developed world. Like many young (ish) evaluators, I wanted […]
The Evaluation Mindset: The Role of the Evaluator
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. “Let’s take a shortcut back to the car.” I was 19 and hiking through the woods with one my best friends. We were both eagle scouts, and had spent much of our young lives wandering through the woods. The area we were exploring […]
Innovative programme design
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. It has always been clear to me: Monitoring and Evaluation depends to a large extent on how development or government programmes are planned and designed. That is why good M&E is strongly linked with good planning and design. In a way, programme design is a natural […]
How Muay Thai Helped Me Re-Think Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I’ve been training in Muay Thai (kickboxing) for a few years. I am always learning something new and being pushed outside of my comfort zone … and I love it. However, I am and have always been a perfectionist. It’s something I’ve struggled […]
10+ Tips from an International Dataviz Speaker
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. I was on a podcast–finally! My friend Jon Schwabish of PolicyViz has asked me to be on his podcast at least ten billion times and I finally agreed. Maybe I was afraid he’d grill me–he did. Maybe I was afraid he’d ask something […]
The Evaluation Mindset: Charting a Course
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Describing how a process works is valuable for two reasons. It forces you to make sure you know how it works. Then it forces you to take the reader through the same sequence of ideas and deductions that made the process clear to […]
‘how do you like to be held accountable?’
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash Do yourself a favour and check out this post from Mariah Brothe Gantz, “The Realm of Possibility in Evaluation”. (And once you’ve clicked through and read it in its entirety, also click through and read all the […]
The Age of Data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. Data, information and knowledge Professional Monitoring and Evaluation is based on hard facts: data, information, knowledge and understanding. Let us take a closer look at these concepts: WHAT IS DATA? As you will know, data is a collection of objective facts, such as numbers, words, […]