Today Evaluation can no longer be a standalone exercise. In the context of this crises it needs to become an ongoing and action-oriented process throughout the intervention (developmental evaluation).
It has to contribute concretely to people’s social, environmental and economic wellbeing as well as to peace locally and regionally as well as globally.
I would like to quote Michael Quin Patton’s recent blog: “All evaluators must now become developmental evaluators, capable of adapting to complex dynamics systems, preparing for the unknown, for uncertainties, turbulence, lack of control, nonlinearities, and for emergence of the unexpected. This is the current context around the world in general and this is the world in which evaluation will exist for the foreseeable future” and would recommend reading it https://bluemarbleeval.org/latest/evaluation-implications-coronavirus-global-health-pandemic-emergency
Isha Wedasinghe Miranda Independent Evaluator and Programme Management Consultant
RE: How do we adapt our evaluation approach to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Today Evaluation can no longer be a standalone exercise. In the context of this crises it needs to become an ongoing and action-oriented process throughout the intervention (developmental evaluation).
It has to contribute concretely to people’s social, environmental and economic wellbeing as well as to peace locally and regionally as well as globally.
I would like to quote Michael Quin Patton’s recent blog: “All evaluators must now become developmental evaluators, capable of adapting to complex dynamics systems, preparing for the unknown, for uncertainties, turbulence, lack of control, nonlinearities, and for emergence of the unexpected. This is the current context around the world in general and this is the world in which evaluation will exist for the foreseeable future” and would recommend reading it https://bluemarbleeval.org/latest/evaluation-implications-coronavirus-global-health-pandemic-emergency
Isha Wedasinghe Miranda
Independent Evaluator and Programme Management Consultant
Sri Lanka