Category Archives: Evaluation team composition

Lifting the quality of evaluation #2: Capable evaluators who know their ‘space’

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jane Davidson

What key elements are needed to seriously drive up how well evaluation delivers quality and value for money? Yesterday I talked about how evaluation-savvy clients can make or break the value of evaluation. Now for the other side of the … Continue reading →

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Specialist evaluators or content-free evaluators?

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

One of the continuing debates in evaluation is about the relative benefits of choosing an evaluator with significant content knowledge compared to a more experienced evaluator with little or no content knowledge.  As is often the case, the answer depends … 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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Australian book launch of ‘Purposeful Program Theory’, Canberra 17 March

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

After years working on this with my co-author Sue Funnell, I’m looking forward to the launch of the book Purposeful Program Theory: Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models in Canberra next Thursday (Yes, on St Patrick’s Day). … Continue reading →

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The importance of visible, high level commitment to evaluation

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

One of the favorite stories I tell about evaluation is about going to meet a senior manager to discuss evaluation and finding him standing on a table in the middle of an open-plan office, with the staff gathered around him, … Continue reading →

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