Archive - Evaluation and Value for Investment

Is evaluation violent? Part 2

Jul 8 •

Is evaluation violent?

Is humanity served if we view it as such?

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Reviewer 2 rebuttal

“Maybe they do things differently in New Zealand…”

Jun 24 •

Realist economic evaluation

Not just “is the intervention worth it?” but how, for whom, when, and why

Jun 17 •

Efficiency and Value in Evaluation in 2025

Sharing my contribution to a panel presentation at Glocal Evaluation Week

Jun 10 •

Causal attribution in SROI

“Do Not Overclaim” vs. “Can We Claim Anything?”

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Cost-benefit analysis in U.S. regulatory decision-making

What does the future hold?

May 26 •

Eco-systemic frames in medical research (and evaluation)

A review of Sturmberg, Martin, Tramonti & Kühlein (2024)

May 20 •

NZ’s new Social Investment Fund

A quick scrape of the net

May 19 •

Ratios as VfM indicators

Objective measures, or wishful thinking?

May 13 •

Measuring what matters: a chicken-egg problem in evaluation

“What matters” should determine what gets “measured” - not the other way round. But availability of evidence may constrain a practical set of criteria…

May 6 •

April 2025

Investing in Peace

Capturing the full value of building peace assets

Apr 29 •

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