Mapping documents (FREE template)
🌴🌿 Feeling Lost in a Desk Review Desk reviews often feel like a document jungle — and I so easily get lost. I’m currently part of an evaluation team conducting a Country Programme Evaluation (CPE) for UNICEF. As you might guess, the number of documents we’re expected to read, understand, and synthesize is… immense. Policies. […]
The Periodic Table of Evaluation 2.0
The periodic table of Evaluation has been updated by Michael Q. Patton and Sara Vaca in January 2025. You can learn all about it here: Know more
Stakeholders’ mappings
I wanted to talk today about a simple idea I use. One thing I realize when I read evaluation ToRs or reports is how few of them have a nice Stakeholders Mapping, that really helps you understand who is involved in the program in an easy-to-absorb way. In some cases, they describe the actors involved […]
Sankey diagram after a disaster
40 ways of purposeful sampling
Catalogue of Likert-Type Scales
This is one of the typical projects I do just for fun. My evaluator-friend Steve Powell (@stevepowell99) told me he had thought of gathering a catalogue of ways to present scales, so I told him I was in, and we came up with this infographic. Likert-type scales, also rating scales, is a widely used approach to scaling responses […]
The Metaevaluation Dashboard
Even after years of working in evaluation and meta-evaluation, I still find myself pausing when someone asks: “What exactly is meta-evaluation… and how do you do it well?” Metaevaluation = evaluating the quality of an evaluation.It’s the self-reflective, quality assurance process behind every good evaluation — but often done behind the scenes. The challenge? It’s […]
My first visual CV
In this personnal search of new uses of visual displays to communicate ordinary informations, Visual CV are my new thing. I have been elaborating some for family and friends, and turns out they are eye-catching and some of them had good results among recruiters. Of course, I had to have my own, so I’ve been […]
My Pentagon of Resources
I have a lot of ideas for producing more infographics regarding Evaluation, but for the time being I thought of sharing a new version of my CV that I just customised for the type of mission I’m doing lately. I’m having the chance of working with the British Red Cross evaluating and supporting projects of […]
Mixed Methods: the infographic
Summer. New issue of New Directions for Evaluation on Mixed Methods in evaluation in my hands. Finally some time to invest in trying to better understand what MixedMethods approach is all about. So I decided I will read it thoroughlyand try to picture some kind of outline. But as usual, I ended up doing avisual one… […]