The ChEW Blog

Three months on, Charlotte Turner shares her reflections from the ChEW Festival 2025

ImpactEd Evaluation share how bringing 'on the ground' voices into evaluation early on improves the quality of the evaluation as well as the culture around it

“Agile” is a popular phrase in workplaces these days, particularly in the fields of technology and product management. This approach, however, - often characterised by being quick and iterative and following short cycles of work - is very much used in the research and evaluation space too. One of our key principles and values at ImpactEd Evaluation is being flexible and nimble in response to partner needs, which goes hand-in-hand with an agile approach to evaluation. Dealing

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

Jo Haffenden discusses the strategic considerations behind the Masonic Charitable Foundation's decision to commission evaluations.

What is Systems Change? As an external evaluator I’ve done heaps of service evaluations – whether it’s a sports programme aimed at young people, an advice service for people navigating the benefits system or a peer support group for trafficked women. I find I am increasingly asked to evaluated systems change programmes. Sometimes a programme is specifically about systems change and often a programme blends both service delivery and systems change elements. But what exactly

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

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

Which elements of Crisis' housing support are most effective for supporting people out of homelessness? Using a Sucess Case Methodology

What does evaluation and impact measurement like during and after the covid-19 pandemic? Stephen Miller, Chair of CHEW and Head of Impact...