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Reflections, opinions, explainers, related to evaluation.
You don’t have to know anything about evaluation to understand the content.
Have a cuppa, read an article, let me know what you think.
Evaluation and Theory of Change… why should I care?
Your focus is delivering your work, supporting those who need it, responding to what’s in front of you, and doing your best with limited time and resources.
Creating a Theory of Change… why should you care?
Theory of Change: a tick-box exercise?
Billy Wong’s recent article about how Theory of Change is being used, is excellent.
However, there is one area where I take a slightly different view.
Creating a Theory of Change is like writing a pop banger [Crosspost > TASO]
Last month I wrote a guest article for TASO about how to write a Theory of Change using their Mapping Outcome and Activities Tools (MOATs).
In it, I described how writing a Theory of Change in some ways is like writing a pop song.
For me, evaluation is part art, part science.