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
The July 1 webinar we mentioned yesterday can be accessed via the webinars section of the new My M and E website (www.mymande.org). Michael Quinn Patton,Founder and Director, Utilization-focused evaluation, and former President of the American Evaluation Association, spoke on … Continue reading
Some more developments in UK development funding, an issue we looked at in a post a few weeks ago. Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute for Development Studies has an interesting article in the Guardian in response to David Cameron’s … Continue reading
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