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Fostering a culture of evaluation

February 12, 2025 at 9:13 pm Leave a comment

An excellent post from Riccardo Polastro on how to foster a culture of evaluation within organizations.

He highlights five recommended practices:

1. Embed evaluation and build trust to support learning and decision making
2. Co-create a shared vision for evaluation
3. Invest in resources to support independent evaluation
4. Strengthen capacity for credible and useful evaluations
5. Align evaluations with user needs and intended impact
Read the full post here.

I think the last recommended practice is key; as an evaluator we often see evaluations commissioned that no one really knows what are their purposes and intended use; this only discredits evaluation and makes staff think twice next time they are asked to cooperate for an evaluation.

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