Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: The Covid-19 Pandemic has emphasized the need for evaluators to reorient their skills based on ongoing learnings from evaluations. As a result, evaluators must possess a variety of competencies to meet the challenges created by such unprecedented circumstances. Purpose: Using existin...
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Background: The Covid-19 Pandemic has emphasized the need for evaluators to reorient their skills based on ongoing learnings from evaluations. As a result, evaluators must possess a variety of competencies to meet the challenges created by such unprecedented circumstances.
Purpose: Using existing literature about evaluators' competencies and the experiences of conducting evaluations during pandemic, this paper proposes a set of competencies that enable an evaluator to collaborate meaningfully with grassroots organizations and co-design evaluations with communities that empower evaluators to think beyond the boundaries of a project intervention towards achieving a larger goal.
Setting: Covid 19 Pandemic and evaluation practice in India
Intervention: NA
Research Design: Case study with interpretive approach
Data Collection and analysis: NA
Findings: The paper suggests that acquiring 'strategic thinking' and 'emotional intelligence and resilience' strengthens evaluators' competencies to be flexible and innovative in evolving evaluation methods.
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| spelling | doaj.art-29e5815c569b4e6dac542158af5132d72024-01-08T20:18:08ZengThe Evaluation Center at Western Michigan UniversityJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation1556-81802023-12-01194610.56645/jmde.v19i46.941Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 PandemicRajib Nandi0Aparajita De1Sambodhi Research and CommunicationsDepartment of Geography, University of Delhi Background: The Covid-19 Pandemic has emphasized the need for evaluators to reorient their skills based on ongoing learnings from evaluations. As a result, evaluators must possess a variety of competencies to meet the challenges created by such unprecedented circumstances. Purpose: Using existing literature about evaluators' competencies and the experiences of conducting evaluations during pandemic, this paper proposes a set of competencies that enable an evaluator to collaborate meaningfully with grassroots organizations and co-design evaluations with communities that empower evaluators to think beyond the boundaries of a project intervention towards achieving a larger goal. Setting: Covid 19 Pandemic and evaluation practice in India Intervention: NA Research Design: Case study with interpretive approach Data Collection and analysis: NA Findings: The paper suggests that acquiring 'strategic thinking' and 'emotional intelligence and resilience' strengthens evaluators' competencies to be flexible and innovative in evolving evaluation methods. http://jmde.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/941evaluator competenciesCovid 19 PandemicIndiaParticipatory |
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| title | Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_short | Reorienting Evaluator Competencies: Learnings from Evaluation Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | reorienting evaluator competencies learnings from evaluation practice during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | evaluator competencies Covid 19 Pandemic India Participatory |
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