The ChEW Blog

Written by founding members of the Equitable Evaluation Collective– the Charity Evaluation Working Group and The Social Investment Consultancy. First published here. As the Equitable Evaluation Collective (EEC) enters a new chapter, we’ve taken the opportunity to reflect on the last 4 years and what we’ve learnt about collaborating in an equitable way. Can you believe that we officially launched 4 years ago?! We can’t! Right from the beginning our ambition was to work in an e

In this powerful keynote-turned-blog, Kamna explores how evaluation can shift from a tool of compliance to a practice of collective learning and trust.

Faced with choosing whether to self-evaluate or commission an evaluator? This blog provides a checklist to help you to decide.

In recent years the social sector has given increased focus towards equity in grant making and in how programmes are designed and delivered. The move towards rebalancing power within the social sector also needs to include holding up a mirror to how we design evaluation and how we collect and use data. This is what has brought individuals from the Charity Evaluation Working Group (ChEW), NPC and The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) together to establish the Equitable Eval

The EEC has been established to advance thinking and practice on more equitable evaluation practice in the UK social sector.

At our first ‘Bitesize’ event in February the evaluation team from Scope shared their experience of taking a co-production approach. The aim of Bitesize events is to focus on different elements of equitable evaluation, from the questions we ask to methodologies we use and how we disseminate findings . In the spirit of co-production, the team have co-written a blog to share some additional detail about how they organised the team, the benefits of a diverse team, how they ensur

Chew Board Member Dave Salisbury reflects on 2020 and how we respond to the need for equitable evaluation and change in the evaluation secto

Back in October 2020, we ran a workshop aimed to help us move from conversations about anti-racism in evaluation towards action. Building on the NPC Ignites event on how to rebalance data in the 21st Century, Bonnie Chiu facilitated a great session to explore the barriers we face in adopting equitable evaluation practices and also where we need more support. We are thrilled to share insights generated from the workshop with you. We’ve pulled out 5 key headlines in this blog a