“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 [...]

Impact Evaluations: an analysis of poverty or a poverty of analysis?

I recently attended a seminar organised by SAMEA (the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association) on the strengths and weaknesses of conducting Impact Evaluations (IE) considering that there is a tendency to conduct IE towards the end of a programme or project, or even not at all! The guest speaker at the seminar was Dr. [...]

Monitoring & Governance?

I must confess. After Kenya’s 2007 elections - the work I am doing with development aid didn’t make much sense anymore. It seemed to me that no amount of “development aid” can make a positive change in peoples lives as long as; i) corruption went unchecked; ii) the bulk of national budgets went to line [...]