“Linearity” & Evaluations?

Further to Thevan’s post on Impact evaluations; here’s an excerpt from a very interesting article on “Evaluation Evolution” posted in the Broker magazine the other day (link to full article below);
Three approaches to evaluation
Evaluation evolution?

Politicians are calling for evaluations that measure the effects of development cooperation. However, good development cooperation focuses on long-term processes that [...]

Incentives, Paradigms & Posho!

  We were on Day 5 of discussing and designing a participatory M&E system…with lots of positive feedback on this “new way of doing things”. Many individuals had come up to us, or said in plenary how excited they were to be involved in designing a system where the information would help the farmer, the researcher, [...]

Theories of Change & MandE

Since my post on “Logic beyond the Logical framework“, we’ve now almost finished consolidating the work of the 4 different groups and putting it altogether into one MandE matrix.
The first step was bringing together the theories of change as viewed by the different stakeholder groups into one Programme theory. This is what it looked like (different colors represent changes related to [...]