Some readers might be wondering what happened to the 30-day challenge with the CENSEmaking blog. After a run of a more than 7 posts in one week I realized that I was effectively creating a firehose of content for people who were accustomed to drinking from a water fountain, so I decided to take a …
The “core competencies” for DE already include qualities like people skills, knowledge of complexity, and communication skills (in addition to fundamental skills in evaluation methods and process implementation), but now we are adding additional ones. Motivation, behaviour change, program planning and design are all reasonable skills that would assist an evaluator in doing this work. Nice in theory, but how about in practice? Can we reasonably expect that there are enough people out there with these skills to do it well? Or is this a call for more of a team-science (or rather, team evaluation) approach to evaluation?
