If you’re reading a lot of LinkedIn right now, as I am, you might think a rethink is in order. You’d be in good company. Lauren Kaplan’s LinkedIn post titled “Rethinking Foreign Aid in Africa: Between Dependency and Development” asks a pressing question:...
“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” (Benoit Mandelbrot, November 20, 1924–October 14, 2010) Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash Prior to the...
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I need a break from the destruction of USAID in real time. It’s been a very long few weeks since the new U.S. administration decided to stop all aid work. Like many of you, I am out of work and scrambling to find...
I waited a long time – maybe too long – to start this blog, EvalThoughts. I have been planning it since the end of 2019, when my professional hero, Molly Hageboeck, told me I had more to give. She was nice about it, but she was also telling me not to coast. I...
There’s evaluation theory, and then there’s evaluation in practice. When we’re evaluating international development or cooperation projects, it tends to be unpredictable. Evaluators have to think on our feet. We all have stories of when things did not go to plan....
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