Musings and ideas in evaluation
Welcome! This is a repository for my musings, tools, and guidance that I’ve been developing through my work as an international development evaluator.
This a work in progress, please bear with me while I figure this all out.
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Philosophy for evaluation
Hello world, It has been a long time since I wrote on this blog! I have mostly been writing on my employer’s blog, and also have just been stretched thinly due to racing between projects and workstreams. However, I wanted to take some time to write on something I have been pondering for a few…
Putting the ‘me’ in ‘MEL’
A joint piece written with Kasia Kedzia. Human-centred design (HCD) is something we have seen increasingly appearing as a way to think about monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). Yet, despite the claims of adherence to HCD, these examples still regularly forget to put the ‘human’ in HCD. In fact, in contradiction to the spirit of…
The power of analogy: idea translation
One thing that has become clear to me over the years is that people are creatures of stories. From young to old, initiate to master, we use the art of storytelling to navigate the world. As children we learn about the world through story. Aesop’s tale of the turtle and the hare, for example, helps…
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Rebel with Causation 