By Hope Gilbert ‘Leadership is working with Goals and vision; management is working with Objectives.’ -Russel Honoré What exactly are Goals – does every program need them? A program’s goals should be very short statements that clearly define what the…
By Sarah Mason Good ideas don’t necessarily make good policy. Evaluators know this—we’ve talked about the need to measure unintended side effects for years. PlayPumps, domestic violence and child hunger Consider PlayPumps: an ingenious idea from South African engineer Ronnie…
By Moira Ragan “…not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” - William Bruce Cameron Assessment before improvement Though my background is in scale development—and much of the attention given to rigor in…
