In the latest edition of ‘Evaluation’ – the UK Evaluation Society’s journal – I read an article about how evaluation practitioners need to challenge the standard way of doing things. In particular the author was advocating using systems thinking and complexity more in evaluation design and implementation. This surprised me. Read more…
You will remember that last month I mentioned that M&E was one of the five basic planning issues that social impact organisations needed to get right. So what happens when M&E doesn’t work? What happens when, despite best efforts, either the wrong data is collected or the tools and M&E Read more…
I was asked this question by a client recently: “why is it always about data?” The organisation has struggled to identify appropriate measures to track its programme performance and impact, it has some systems in place but needs to improve and in exasperation one of the team turned to me Read more…
Disclaimer: I am the Chair of EUConsult – a membership organisation for consultants to nonprofit organisations Some of you will have seen my tweet last year on the publication of a much anticipated report into the UK civil society sector. It is an important report. But it is also a Read more…
Well here it is: 2019! It is potentially a huge year for those of us in the UK and in Europe, and it might be a significant year in Africa as many countries there go to the polls. It is always worth remembering that change happens all the time, and Read more…