My name is Bob Williams.  I’ve been involved in the systems field since the mid-1970s.  Over the past forty years I’ve learned to distinguish between three different approaches to systemic practice: Observing systems Thinking systemically Being systemic These differences have major implications for evaluation. First, the distinction between observing systems and thinking systemically.  In an …

Systems- and Complexity-informed Evaluation Week: What Kind of Systemic Evaluator Are You? by Bob Williams Read More »

We are Mat Walton, Emily Gates, and Pablo Vidueira. Mat is the Technical Lead in the Social Systems Team at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) in New Zealand. Emily is an assistant professor at Boston College who conducts evaluations of educational and health interventions and researches systems thinking, values, and equity in …

Systems- and Complexity-informed Evaluation Week: Trends in Systems and Complexity-informed Evaluation by Mat Walton, Emily Gates, and Pablo Vidueira Read More »

Hello. My name is Bob  Picciotto and I am on the Executive Committee of the International Evaluation Academy. As Director General of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) for two consecutive terms (1992-2002), I was fortunate to report to the Board of Directors. In parallel, management carried out its own self-evaluations under the oversight …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: Liberating Evaluation by Bob Picciotto Read More »

I am Cristina Magro, an IEAc Council Member at the Transformational Evaluation Working Group. Until 2004, I was a professor at UFMG, Brazil, teaching linguistics and working transdisciplinarily to understand the relation between language, cognition and culture, ultimately between humans and what is called “reality” – a relevant question when living at the edge of …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: Transformation: the Quest for an Operational Concept by Christina Magro Read More »

My name is Scott Chaplowe and I’ve been a member of the AEA since 2002, currently serve on AEA’s International Working Group, and I am the Coordinator of the Transformational Evaluation Working Group in the International Evaluation Academy, (IEA). I often get asked what is transformational evaluation? It is not a specific approach or methodology …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: Evaluating Outside the Box: Evaluation’s Transformational Potential by Scott Chaplowe Read More »

Hello! Our names are Alejandro Imbach and Mine Pabari. We are independent evaluation consultants, focused on participatory, learning and utilisation evaluation. Mine is a member of the International Evaluation Academy (IEAc). Recently, we conducted evaluations for two large scale programmes which involved multiple countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Both programmes focused on …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: Evaluation, Transformation & Power – Unearthing and Navigating Values in Evaluating Programmes Focused on Women’s Rights and Social Justice by Mine Pabari and Alejandro Imbach Read More »

I’m Michael Quinn Patton (MQP) founder and director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and Blue Marble Evaluation and a member of the Board of the International Evaluation Academy. This blogpost describes a synthesis of worldwide food systems dialogues that illustrates the kind of global thinking and engagement that constitutes a core part of the vision of the …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: The United Nations Food Systems Summit and Global Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton Read More »

My name is Candice Morkel and I am the Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results – Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA). We support countries in building and strengthening national M&E systems, partnering with governments, civil society and development partners. One of my favourite movies is “Salmon fishing in the Yemen”, probably because I …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”: Swimming Upstream to Transform Evaluation Systems by Candice Morkel Read More »

Greetings, AEA members! We are Zenda Ofir and Scott Chaplowe, two independent evaluators and respectively the Council Chairperson and the Coordinator of the Transformational Evaluation Working Group of the International Evaluation Academy (IEAc). It is a privilege to introduce this themed week featuring blog posts as a way to introduce the Academy to the AEA365 …

International Evaluation Academy (IEA) Week: Introducing the International Evaluation Academy by Zenda Ofir and Scott Chaplowe Read More »

Hello! I’m Beverly Peters, faculty member in Measurement and Evaluation at American University. I am here today with three students from our Human Resource Analytics and Management (HRAM) program: Corlene Dixon, Diane Hamilton, and Kenya Richardson-El. These three students recently took my Principles and Theories in Evaluation course as an elective in their HRAM Master’s program. They came …

Principles and Theories of Evaluation: Reflections from Human Resources Professionals by Beverly Peters, Corlene Dixon, Diane Hamilton, and Kenya Richardson-El Read More »