Editorial comment: Today’s blog by Craig Russon is a follow-up to one he posted earlier this week. In a previous blog, I described what I view as fundamental differences between the “Integrative Evaluation Capacity-building Model” described by Labin et. al. in the Sept 2012 issue of AJE and the ECDG framework. In this blog, I
(Read More…)
Editorial Comment: Today’s blog was written by ECDG’s board chair, Craig Russon. Thanks, Craig! Dear Colleagues: I read with interest the article entitled “A research synthesis of the evaluation capacity building literature” (Labin, S., Duffy, J., Meyers, D., Wandersman, A. & Lesesne, C., 2012) in the most recent American Journal of Evaluation. What interested me
(Read More…)
Editorial comment: Today’s insightful blog is written by ECDG’s Spanish member of the ECDG Advisory Group. We are probably living the worst times in democracy that anyone in Spain remembers. At this point, we have enough data available to support this sentence, I guess. However, it strikes me how few times Evaluation has appeared in
(Read More…)
The United Nations Evaluation Development Group for Asia and the Pacific (UNEDAP), a network of UN agencies established with the aim of promoting an evaluation culture in the Asia and Pacific region and to strengthen the region’s evaluation capacities, proposed to undertake a Regional Thematic Study aimed at identifying strategic issues and options for its
(Read More…)
Editorial comment: Today’s summer reflection comes from ECDG’s president, Karen Russon. I recently read that “low hanging fruit” is a cliché that is past its time (over ripe?) and should be removed from our lexicon. Too bad, I really liked the visual of that one. I was reflecting on that yesterday while out foraging. A
(Read More…)
