Strengthening Evaluation Effectiveness – seminar, Washington DC

Posted by on January 18th, 2011

I’m in Washington DC this week, after teaching a course on Using Program Theory and Logic Models for Evaluation at The Evaluators Institute.

Fortunately I will be able to stay on for a seminar being presented this coming Wednesday by The Evaluators’ Institute and The Washington Evaluators on

“StrengtheningEvaluation Effectiveness”

Wednesday, January 19th, 6:00pm

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January 18th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: About/Definition, Causal inference, Civil society engagement, Professional development, The client's role | Leave a comment

Friday Funny - community engagement and evidence-based policy

Posted by on December 3rd, 2010

Policy that is developed in response to clearly identified needs and through careful processes of community engagement – while being feasible in an adversarial political system and short timeframes?  Time for the Hollowmen to show us how it can be done.

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December 3rd, 2010 | Category: Adequate scope, Appropriate criteria and standards, Appropriate reporting, Civil society engagement, Community programs, Friday Funnies, Government programs, Professional development, Synthesis of findings, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Friday Funny - community evaluation of bike lanes

Posted by on August 6th, 2010

This week brings together two issues that seem to be recurring themes in genuine evaluation – dealing with making mistakes and community involvement in evaluation processes. Check out these sites on the world’s worst cycle lanes.

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August 6th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Appropriate inference, Appropriate reporting, Civil society engagement, Friday Funnies, Learning from failure | Leave a comment

An apple a day - or cherry-picking the studies?

Posted by on July 12th, 2010

Why can’t newspapers be more critical when they report findings from research and evaluation, and provide easy links to more details?

A new study by researchers from Australia’s major government research instution (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation – CSIRO) , reviewing the health effects of eating apples, has received the usual standard

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July 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Appropriate criteria and standards, Appropriate inference, Appropriate reporting, Civil society engagement, Health, Synthesis of findings | 2 comments

User generated content - webinar and mapping software

Posted by on July 7th, 2010

One of the future trends for evaluation that I anticipate is increasing frequency and importance (and hopefully quality) of user-generated content.  Here are two interesting resources related to this:

1.  Webinar on user -generated content.

Thursday, 8 July 2010, 16:00 – 17:00 CEST (GMT +1, Amsterdam – Netherlands) NB: “Doors” will OPEN for attendees

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July 7th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Appropriate measurement, Appropriate reporting, Civil society engagement | 3 comments
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