The ChEW Blog

ChEW co-chairs, Jami and Dave, share reflections on their journey with ChEW

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

Introducing our new Co-chairs, Dave Salisbury and Jami Dixon.

ChEW Trustee Vinal Karania outlines how the feedback from our Member Consultation has informed our new strategy.

I have spent nearly twenty years working as an evaluation practitioner in many different contexts. For about the first ten years of my career, all the evaluation work I was involved in fitted the dominant model of evaluation, one that ‘grew up in the projects’. With SMART goals; theories of change that fit on one page and show clear causal pathways to be ‘tested’; contracts that stipulate one way progress reporting, often based on a predetermined timeline; payment milestones

It has been a massive time of change for many in the charity evaluation sector. For many charities projects have been stopped and started, the needs of communities have shifted, and funding has been turned on its head. Evaluators across the sector have had to adapt to fast changing environments in which decision makers are ever more hungry for data and evidence to help them find a way through complexity. Throughout the pandemic, many of us have been looking to new evaluation

We are so excited to be launching our new members area which we hope will bring members closer together to share information and connect.

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

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