Many Terms of Reference for evaluations these days expect you to include focus groups and surveys/commentaries from beneficiaries as evidence of whether the intervention worked. But sometimes, this is the only real interaction with the project design or planning process that beneficiaries get. Shocking I hear you cry. Well no, not Read more…
I had a chance to meet up with a former colleague and good friend last week. In the past few years we had spent much time on separate projects and so it was good to meet up and chat through the different experiences that we’ve had since we last worked Read more…
We are a strange bunch, us NGO folk: we deal in change, design theories of change and logic models to show us the way and create toolkits and handbooks to help us along the way and commission reports to tell us where we have been and where we might want Read more…
Data presentation is becoming more and more important. In this connected, data-rich world it isn’t enough anymore to write up your findings in a report, provide graphs and analysis and expect that this will be circulated and read widely. The rise of the infographic has changed expectations of reporting and data. Read more…