Yes, evaluation is in Africa: Progressive, growing and transformational
A democratic culture supports evaluation, as enabling factors such a transparency and accountability create a demand for evaluation. In the ...
Working Evaluatively: How much do we learn from our own experiences?
The development of evaluation research capacity faces some inherent challenges. Among others, the knowledge and skills that are shared should ...
Why it is time to make evaluation more relevant for Africa (3) – Emphasising Distinct African Values, Cultures, Institutions and Practices?
Just before I started to write this blog, I received the announcement of the 8th AfrEA International Conference that is ...
Why it is time to make evaluation more relevant for Africa (2) – Development of Africa-driven and -rooted Evaluation Systems and Practices
Why Africa-rooted Evaluation? In my first blog on this platform I summarized the reasons why the Western evaluation paradigm that ...
Why it is time to make evaluation more relevant for Africa – The need for an Africa-rooted Evaluation Paradigm
Recognising the distinct African Context - At the end of last year I participated in the 2015 AEA Conference in ...
Where is the pride in our own knowledge systems?
The majority of rural African parents are convinced that their children can learn more useful things from their local community ...
What are your assumptions?
I have done evaluations for a while and I have learned that evaluators could do a better job in working ...
Walking the Tightrope: Promoting demand for evaluation evidence in South Africa
In South Africa we have now established a government-wide evaluation system, with evaluation happening at national and provincial levels (but ...
Uses and abuses of Per Diems in Africa: An issue for Evaluators?
My new book makes a compelling case on the devastating nature of per diem – i.e., daily allowance – systems ...
The African Peer Review Mechanism: Learning from an Indigenous African Evaluation Tool
African countries seem to be forever undergoing assessments and evaluations. Many stem from the governments of international development partners who ...