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AI for Evaluation: a way out of the bullshit?

Amid all the excitement and panicking about how ChatGPT could take evaluators’ jobs, here is why I’m excited: I’m excited about AI…

Sep 18, 2023

A graphic split in two parts: The upper half has a bright red background and a drawing of a girl who appears to be thinking, next to a set of documents labelled “Monitoring and Evaluation”. The lower half has a light blue background and a drawing of a computer with a smiley face. The title is split across both, reading “Thoughts about Monitoring, Evaluation and Learnint and generative AI — a series by Sonja Wiencke and Rosie Frost.”

Sep 18, 2023

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So you want a new M&E software

This post is for you — if you are juggling a dozen different reports and spreadsheets for every project. This post is for you — if you…

Sep 8, 2021

So you want a new M&E software

Sep 8, 2021

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Design thinking for lovable M&E, part 1: what’s your problem?

People don’t like doing M&E. Not all people, obviously. But some people. And they probably have good reasons for that. If you are trying to…

Sep 5, 2021

Design thinking for lovable M&E, part 1: what’s your problem?

Sep 5, 2021

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Your non-profit has the M&E blues? Boost the mood with design thinking

When I meet new people in the non-profit sector and say I’m a Monitoring and Evaluation person, they often react like this:

Sep 5, 2021

Your non-profit has the M&E blues? Boost the mood with design thinking

Sep 5, 2021

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Why your agency doesn’t learn from data (and how it might)

There are two things about “learning” which everyone in the social impact sector agrees on:

Jul 10, 2021

Why your agency doesn’t learn from data (and how it might)

Jul 10, 2021

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Islands of Sustainability

Why small islands need stronger democracies to fight climate change

Do human societies have a better chance at surviving and beating climate change as democracies or as autocratic states?

Dec 6, 2019

Why small islands need stronger democracies to fight climate change

Dec 6, 2019

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M&E: Stuck in “Digital transformation” or ready for “Digital by default”?

or: Why I am fantasising about standardisation and algorithms.

Nov 7, 2019

M&E: Stuck in “Digital transformation” or ready for “Digital by default”?

Nov 7, 2019

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“The first climate resilient nation”: the meaning of big made-up words in real power struggles

This is a post about power and climate change, which is actually part of a small series. You can read the first post here. Synopsis: the…

Aug 13, 2018

“The first climate resilient nation”: the meaning of big made-up words in real power struggles

Aug 13, 2018

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Islands of Sustainability

“The first climate resilient nation” — why Dominica’s ambition is tough, but achievable

Dominica is a tiny island state in the eastern Caribbean (not knowing that is almost excusable). Think green hills, glass-clear waterfalls…

Aug 13, 2018

“The first climate resilient nation” — why Dominica’s ambition is tough, but achievable

Aug 13, 2018

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Beyond big words: Filling “climate resilience” on Dominica with meaning

This is the third post in a little series. It’s about climate change, disasters, and an island’s quest for hurricane resilience.

Aug 13, 2018

Beyond big words: Filling “climate resilience” on Dominica with meaning

Aug 13, 2018

Sonja Wiencke

Sonja Wiencke

Nonprofit & evaluation consultant @ www.evaltech.co. Writing about data, no-code, climate- & social justice, shifting the power. Made in EU, living in Dominica.

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