Looking Inward: Evaluation for Questions That Matter in Civil Society
Why do we conduct evaluations in civil society: to learn, to make decisions, to be accountable, or to justify what we’ve already done? The obvious answer is usually “for all of those reasons.” But in practice, these functions don’t always coexist well. Sometimes monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems produce information, reports, and evidence, but they do not necessarily help organizations answer the questions that matter most to their work.
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That tension was the starting point for the discussion “Looking Inward: Evaluation for Questions That Matter in Civil Society”, held during Global Evaluation Week, Glocal 2026.
Read the full post here: https://accountabilitylab.org/library/looking-inward-evaluation-for-questions-that-matter-in-civil-society/
