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I feel like an #oddeven party pooper (reducing and working are not the same)

There are two nice, evidence-informed op-ed pieces out today on Delhi’s odd-even scheme to try to reduce air pollution (here and here). The results are heartening because I didn’t have a good sense of whether a two-week window of implementing a policy — to which there were many exceptions — was long enough to potentiallyContinueContinue reading “I feel like an #oddeven party pooper (reducing and working are not the same)”

Thoughts from #evalcon on evidence uptake, capacity building

I attended a great panel today, hosted by the thintankinitiative.org and IDRC and featuring representatives from three of TTI’s cohort of think tanks. This is part of the broader global evaluation week (#evalcon) happening in Kathmandu and focused on building bridges: use of evaluation for decision making and policy influence. The notes on evidence-uptake largely comeContinueContinue reading “Thoughts from #evalcon on evidence uptake, capacity building”

Thinking About Building Evaluation Ownership, Theories of Change — Back From Canadian Evaluation Society

This week I had the pleasure of attending the Canadian Evaluation Society (#EvalC2015) meeting in Montreal, which brought together a genuinely nice group of people thinking not just hard a-boot evaluation strategies and methodologies but also how evaluation can contribute to better and more transparent governance, improving our experience as global and national citizens –ContinueContinue reading “Thinking About Building Evaluation Ownership, Theories of Change — Back From Canadian Evaluation Society”

What Does It Mean To Do Policy Relevant Evaluation?

A different version of this post appears here. For several months, I have intended to write a post about what it actually means to do research that is ‘policy relevant,’ as it seems to be a term that researchers can self-ascribe* to their work without stating clearly what this entails or if it is anContinueContinue reading “What Does It Mean To Do Policy Relevant Evaluation?”

Thinking About Stakeholder Risk and Accountability in Pilot Experiments

This post is also cross-posted here in slightly modified form. Since I keep circling around issues related to my dissertation in this blog, I decided it was time to start writing about some of that work. As anyone who has stood or sat near to me for more than 5 minutes over the past 4.25ContinueContinue reading “Thinking About Stakeholder Risk and Accountability in Pilot Experiments”

Center and Peripherary in Doing Development Differently

I have spent almost three weeks back in TX, which was supposed to be, in part, a time of immense productivity in front of our fireplace (yes, it is chilly here. Probably not enough to warrant a fire but still. I am sitting in front of the fireplace and paying for carbon credits to mitigateContinueContinue reading “Center and Peripherary in Doing Development Differently”

Theories of change, stakeholders, imagined beneficiaries, & stealing from product design. That is, meet ‘Mary.’

This post is also available, lightly edited, here. I have been thinking a lot about ‘theories of change’ this week (just did some presenting on them here!). Actually, I have been thinking more about ‘conceptual models,’ which was the term by which I was first introduced to the general idea (via Vic Strecher in ConceptualContinueContinue reading “Theories of change, stakeholders, imagined beneficiaries, & stealing from product design. That is, meet ‘Mary.’”

have evidence, will… um, erm (5 of 6, revisibility)

this is part of a series of joint posts with suvojit. it is also cross-posted at people, spaces, deliberation. throughout this series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4), we have considered two main issues. first, how can evidence and evaluation be shaped to be made more useful – that is, directly useable – in guidingContinueContinue reading “have evidence, will… um, erm (5 of 6, revisibility)”

have evidence, will… um, erm? (4 of 6, going public)

this is a joint post with suvojit. it is also posted on people, spaces, deliberation. in our last post, we discussed how establishing “relevant reasons” for decision-making ex ante may enhance the legitimacy and fairness of deliberations on resource allocation. we also highlight that setting relevant decision-making criteria can inform evaluation design by highlighting whatContinueContinue reading “have evidence, will… um, erm? (4 of 6, going public)”