Evaluation Around the Globe
Our December 2021 Members Event featured an International panel sharing their approaches to evaluation and key themes and projects from the past year, as well as looking forward to what 2022 might offer.
We were delighted to hear from:
Tom Ling, European Evaluation Society
Looking back topic: Rise of complex interventions and mature approaches to handling it for evaluators
Looking forward topic: Tacit situated knowledge and supporting agile learning organisations
Khalil Bitar, EvalYouth, co-founder / MENA Evaluation Network (EvalMENA), board member
Looking back topic: Permission to dream and act: The youth in evaluation movement and the power of transformation —with insights from the story and experience of the EvalYouth Global Network
Looking forward topic: If not now, when? Evaluators as agents of change in the time of a global pandemic and other (existential) global challenges —with a focus on evaluation in service of equity, social justice, and social activism
Kylie Hutchinson, Principal with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation and Canadian Evaluation Society Member
Looking back topic: Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action in Canada and Equitable Evaluation
Looking forward topic: Liberating Structures for the Equitable Evaluation Toolbox
Professor Wolfgang Meyer, International Program for Development Evaluation Training
Looking back topic: Systems thinking in SDG-reporting
Looking forward topic: Big data for monitoring
Thank you to everyone who took part.
Links shared as part of presentations and event chat:
Reflections on Applying Equitable Evaluation
Research is Ceremony - Shawn Wilson
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/research-is-ceremony-shawn-wilson
Liberating Structures
https://www.liberatingstructures.com
Community Solutions
https://communitysolutions.ca/web/
Center for Evaluation
International Program for Development Evaluation Training
Master of Blended-Learning Evaluation at Saarland University and TU Kaiserslautern
https://www.zfuw.uni-kl.de/en/management-law/master-blended-learning-evaluation-mable
Non-profit Network of Data scientists
Link to Q Health work on liberating structures
https://q.health.org.uk/resource/liberating-structures/