The UK Evaluation Society conference will be held this year on 10 & 11 May in London. Always a great opportunity to network and share insights, the theme of this year’s event is particularly relevant: the use and usability of Evaluation.  More details here.

Here in Ireland, progress is slowly being made in terms of building evaluation capacity across the public service.  The next part of the puzzle is building the capacity to consume evaluation work and extract the most benefit.  Otherwise too much of our work is wasted.

In fairness sometimes much of the responsibility for the limited usability of evaluation can be squarely directed at ourselves as evaluators.   Continue reading →