EvalVoices Experts' Insights
| SESSION 4: EVALUATING EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS - WHY AND HOW? - 28 APRIL 2026 | 14:00 CET |
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📌 Session 4: Evaluating Efficiency and Effectiveness - why and how? 🗣 Speaker: Megan Kennedy-Chouane, Head of Evaluation Unit, OECD, Paris 📅 Date and Time: 28 April 2026 | 14:00 CET About the topic: In this session, Megan will explore: ✅ What it really means to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness in development interventions, ✅ Why these dimensions matter for credibility and learning, and ✅ How practitioners can approach them in a practical, methodologically sound way. Drawing on her OECD DAC experience, she will discuss common challenges, useful tools, and emerging good practices, offering participants concrete insights to strengthen the quality and usability of their evaluations. Explore the highlights from the fourth session of EvalVoices "Evaluating Efficiency and Effectiveness - why and how?" with Megan Kennedy-Chouane:
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| SESSION 3: OUTCOME HARVESTING & THE EMERGING INTERSECTIONS WITH AI WITH GOELE SCHEERS - 03 FEBRUARY 2026 | 14:00 CET |
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📌 Topic: Outcome Harvesting & the Emerging Intersections with AI 🗣 Speaker: Goele Scheers 📅 Date and Time: 03 February 2026 | 14:00 CET About the Topic: The third session in EvalVoices webinar series will explore how Outcome Harvesting as an evaluation method helps us capture and understand change in complex environments—and how Artificial Intelligence is beginning to transform this practice. This interactive webinar unpacked the core ideas of Outcome Harvesting as a method for identifying and interpreting outcomes, reflected on the opportunities and risks AI brings to evaluation, learning, and decision-making, and created space for dialogue on how practitioners and policymakers can harness these intersections to advance adaptive and evidence-based action. Explore the highlights from the third session of EvalVoices on Outcome Harvesting and the Emerging Intersections with AI with Goele Scheers:
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| SESSION 2: PROCESS TRACING WITH DEREK BEACH - 30 SEPTEMBER 2025 | 14:00 CET |
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Topic: Process Tracing Speaker: Derek Beach Date and Time: 30 September 2025 | 14:00 CET About the Topic: Process tracing is a qualitative research method used to identify and test causal mechanisms in complex contexts. It enables evaluators to go beyond “what works” by systematically examining how and why interventions produce outcomes. In this session, Derek Beach will demonstrate how process tracing can be applied in evaluations to strengthen the credibility of findings and enhance understanding of causal pathways. Participants will gain practical insights into designing and conducting evaluations that are both methodologically sound and contextually grounded. Explore the highlights from the second session of EvalVoices on Process Tracing with Derek Beach:
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| SESSION 1: EVALUATION SCIENCE WITH MICHAEL QUINN PATTON - 15 JULY 2025 | 14:00 CET |
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Topic: Evaluation Science Speaker: Michael Quinn Patton Date and Time: 15 July 2025 | 14:00 CET About the Topic: Evaluation Science addresses the evolving body of knowledge that underpins effective and credible evaluation practice. In this session, Michael Quinn Patton will explore the foundations of evaluation as a scientific discipline—what constitutes quality evidence, how methodological choices influence use, and why evaluation must adapt to complexity, uncertainty, and systems change. Explore the highlights from the first session of EvalVoices on Evaluation Science with Michael Quinn Patton:
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