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…
By Anna Beavers After finishing my undergraduate studies at the University of Mississippi, I promptly packed what I could fit into four suitcases and moved to Abu Dhabi to begin working as an intelligence analyst. My educational background in homeland…
