The comments shared in response to the earlier post, Culturally Competent Needs Assessment By An “Outsider” raise issues that are critical to the discipline of evaluation. Two things come to mind; a) reflections on how we define evaluation theory, and … Continue reading
Is policy evaluation fundamentally different to program evaluation? How can lessons learned from program evaluation (such as the value of stakeholder involvement) be applied to the evaluation of policies? The next webinar in the series of monthly live webinars on … Continue reading
What does it take for an outsider to do a community needs assessment in cultural contexts that are deeply entrenched in traditions and norms? Continue reading
Whether we think of evaluation as a profession, as a discipline, or as an activity, evaluation is unusual in its interdisciplinarity. Inspired by spending the previous week connecting with new and old evaluation colleagues across the disciplinary boundaries at the … Continue reading
At the recent conference of the Australasian Evaluation Society, Tom Schwandt gave an entertaining and thought-provoking keynote in which he talked about a societal phenomenon called ‘phronemophobia’. [Tom assured us this really was an existing word in the English language … Continue reading
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