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National Evaluation Policy Framework

The Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency has just released the National Evaluation Policy Framework. As the introduction to the document explains: “The Policy Framework for the Government-Wide Monitoring and Evaluation System (GWMES) which was approved by Cabinet in 2005 describes three “data terrains” which underpin the monitoring and evaluation system, namely, [...]

Evaluation vs.Social Research

John Lavelle’s diagrammatic representation of the difference between Evaluation and Social Research. What’s missing, I would suggest, is USE. Evaluation is driven by an intention to use research results immediately. Research is concerned with generating a body of knowledge but is not necessarily preoccupied to the degree evaluation is with Use issues. That is not [...]

Writing Methodology: It’s Not Data Collection

When doing review studies it quickly becomes apparent that methodology chapters have been reduced to descriptions of data collection, and occassionally, sometimes incidentally, a mention of analytical techniques in passing. Even the more experimental type work is frequently devoid of sufficient detail to judge its quality or reliability. If we were laboratory scientists replication would [...]