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For evaluators’ eyes only
Saturday, 21st July
In December 2015 I posted slides about eight questions evaluators could ask to determine if a program was ‘complexity-sensitive’. I had been spending a lot of time thinking about whether complexity was an obstacle to creating the kind of social …
/No Comments Yet/Reconciliation Week and findings from an Aboriginal health evaluation
Saturday, 4th June
Six years ago I worked with colleagues to evaluate a health program operating in five Western Australian communities where Aboriginal people were chronically under-served. The state government funded mainstream organisations to employ Aboriginal community workers, conduct healthy lifestyle activities and …
/No Comments Yet/Evaluation amidst complexity: 8 questions evaluators should ask
Friday, 4th December
Many of Social Dimensions’ assignments concern evaluating a project that wasn’t working as expected. Often, the reason is for the lackluster or surprising performance is that the implementers were trying to change behaviour within a complex adaptive system. For the …
/No Comments Yet/Measure what you treasure
Wednesday, 13th March
India-based evaluator Katherine Hay gave a recent talk exhorting international development agencies to think about what is most important and make that the measure of success. She challenged her audience to consider if India’s phenomenal economic growth was really more …
/No Comments Yet/Realist evaluations: a tool for repairing programs
Thursday, 7th February
There are so many evaluation tools to pick from and none are right for every job. Everyone who runs a social service or a community program wants it to make a difference. We want recipients to be healthier, more successful …
/No Comments Yet/My highlights from 2012–it’s all about information
Sunday, 30th December
I was part of some wonderful projects in 2012. As I wrote my personal highlights from a third year as a consultant, I realised it was all about information: from how Twitter is helping me to learn new tricks to …
/2 Comments /Nudging our way to better land use management
Saturday, 9th June
Northern Agricultural Catchments Council, better known as NACC, enhances the natural resources of the Mid West by motivating land managers to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. Changing behaviour is never easy, especially when you are talking about peoples’ livelihoods. NACC knows it …
/No Comments Yet/What do you want to know?
Tuesday, 24th April
Peter and I did some big picture talking with Jenny Rolston, the Customer Service Manager for City of Greater Geraldton this week. This May Social Dimensions will be surveying residents and City staff to find out what they want to …
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