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Evaluators should not simply strive for technical perfection but contribute to real change. This can only be done if their focus is on people: the people in the field, who are the primary stakeholders concerned by the change, but also their local counterparts. It requires a move away from instrumental interviewing, towards open conversations and listening. In this episode, independent evaluator Silvia Salinas-Mulder argues why transformative evaluation is important, in particular in times of a global crisis.

SILVIA SALINAS-MULDER is a Bolivian anthropologist & feminist, with a specialisation in Andean Studies and a master’s degree in Decentralization and Public Administration. With thirty years of experience as senior consultant, researcher and evaluator in the social development sector, she is recognised for her specialised though systemic and creative approaches to key poverty, development and exclusion topics. Silvia Salinas is an advocator and facilitator of transformative planning, management and evaluation processes, who is particularly interested in power issues, ethics and intercultural relations. Between 2016 and June 2018 she was the president of the Bolivian Monitoring and Evaluation Network (REDMEBOL). Since December 2017 Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization Network (ReLAC), and since last April President of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation.  International speaker. She has written a vast number of publications on evaluation, gender and other development and human rights issues.

By EC DEVCO / Evaluation Support Service (ESS) · Silvia Salinas - Evaluate to transform