Establishing Evaluation Offices Part 3
By: Cindy Clapp-Wincek, Senior Evaluation Advisor How to balance evaluation with other types of evidence We ended the first blog in this series talking about the ups and downs of evaluation as a Federal agency priority. Sometimes evaluation is traded off for and put at odds with implementation. I remember when a manager involved in budget
Establishing Evaluation Offices Part 2
By: Cindy Clapp-Wincek, Senior Evaluation Advisor What can help to build an agency culture that values, conducts, and uses evaluations? Particularly for an agency that has not had evaluation before, strengthening evaluation knowledge and culture can be an uphill climb. I have recently worked with an agency that had not been doing monitoring or evaluation
Establishing Evaluation Offices Part 1
By: Cindy Clapp-Wincek, Senior Evaluation Advisor Evaluation has now been around a good long time. Some Federal evaluation offices have been around for decades, some agencies do not yet have evaluation offices, and some agencies have had evaluation offices that have started and stopped. In any of these contexts, there are enduring issues. What choices
