Category Archives: Appropriate inference

The trials and tribulations of trials

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Katherine Hay

Katherine Hay continues her guest blogging on evidence and evaluation. Ben Goldacre in The Guardian wrote that UK politicians “are ignorant about trials and they’re weird about evidence.” He contrasts this with international development where he talks about the “amazing … Continue reading →

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The Rise and Risk of Evidence

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Katherine Hay

Our guest blogger this week is Katherine Hay, a senior member of the Evaluation Unit of the International Centre for Development Research. Based in New Delhi, India, she is an expert on the role of evaluation in development in South Asia. … Continue reading →

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The Friday Funny – the timing of evaluation

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

This week’s Friday Funny reminds us of the importance of when we choose to evaluate and the factors that might affect the data we collect. Continue reading →

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Challenges in evaluation – Call for nominations

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

What are the big, enduring challenges in evaluation? Where are we making progress? The ‘BetterEvaluation’ project has announced a Request for Challenges (RfC), with a particular emphasis in this round on evaluation in the areas of Capacity Development, Climate Change … Continue reading →

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Alpine whaling? – Interesting developments in evidence-based policy, episode 2

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

While Japan has ‘scientific whaling’, Australia might be beginning a phase of ‘scientific alpine grazing’, reversing a policy of removing cattle from summer grazing in alpine national park in the name of research. (Thanks to a number of GenuineEvaluation readers … Continue reading →

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