RE: Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence | Eval Forward

Dear all, I totally agree with your comments. The ultimate reason for evaluation is to contribute to this social betterment or impact. This includes, but at the same time goes beyond the mere use of evaluation results that change policies or programmes. In this way, the use of evaluation per se stops being evaluations’ final objective, since it aims at changes that promote improvements in people’s lives.

In this way we have understood evaluation to identify seven stories of evaluation that make a difference in Latin América. We have published these stories in the book “Leaving a Footprint”, edited by Pablo Rodriguez Bilella and me, available for free in Spanish and English. You can access the book trailer here. The book illustrates how evaluation itself has this potential to produce a positive impact in people’s lives.

The follow illustration on this book summarize the main idea behind these seven experiences.

image by Tapella