Category Archives: Civil society engagement

Strengthening Evaluation Effectiveness – seminar, Washington DC

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

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 … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – community engagement and evidence-based policy

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

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 … Continue reading →

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The Friday Funny: Community evaluation of bike lanes

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

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. Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

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 – … Continue reading →

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User generated content – webinar and mapping software

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

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 … Continue reading →

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