Topics: Knowledge management and communication

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Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?
Harriet Matsaert raised a discussion on EvalForward aimed at sharing experiences and practices in using visual tools in evaluation. This document provides a summary of key points emerged under each of the four questions proposed.
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Visual tools are powerful - Handle with care!
Reflections on the Evalforward discussion ‘Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?’
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- Knowledge management and communication
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Jun 26, 2023
Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?
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Topics: Knowledge management and communication

Topics: Knowledge management and communication

Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?

Visual tools are powerful - Handle with care!

Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?

How and why do Communities of Practice for Evaluators deliver? The case of EvalForward

Return on Knowledge - How international development agencies are collaborating to deliver impact through knowledge, learning, research and evidence

Independent Review of EvalForward Community of Practice

Glossary of key terms in evaluation and RBM - English, French, Arabic

‘Communicating independence’ or ‘independently communicating’, that is the question

Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators

The road ahead: Evaluators must promote learning for adaptive development processes

Behind the glossy cover: six reflections on communicating evaluations

Evaluation questions the value of aid interventions. We need to keep warranting the value of evaluation.

Engaging your audience. Creative communications for evaluation dissemination.

A guide: integrating communication in evaluation

Can visual thinking facilitate evaluation? WFP’s innovative approach to validation workshops

Why use facilitation in evaluation?

Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings