Please note: These topics are only a starting point, and other topics and ideas are welcome.
A. Foundational evaluation skills and capabilities
B. New tools; approaches and ways of thinking for a transforming context
C. Advanced evaluation topics
Basic concepts of evaluation
Program logic or program theory
Building a monitoring and evaluation framework
Qualitative enquiry methods for evaluation
Quantitative methods for evaluation
Conducting surveys
Interviews and focus groups
Rubrics and scales
Evaluation ethics
Commissioning an evaluation
Conducting a culturally safe evaluation
Improving the link between evaluation and policy
Data visualisation
Crafting an evaluation report
Ethics and evaluation
Using and communicating evaluation findings
Building organisational capacity for evaluation
Developmental evaluation/principles focused evaluation
Evaluation methods for NGOs (or other specific stakeholder groups)
Systems thinking and evaluation
Technology and evaluation
Big data/artificial intelligence and evaluation
Conducting inclusive and/or empowering evaluations
Conducting evaluations in emergent or complex settings
Integrating design thinking and evaluation
Collaborative approaches or frameworks for evaluation
Mixed methods and their use in evaluation
Economic approaches in evaluation
Realist Evaluation
Impact evaluation
Contribution analysis and other ways of understanding contribution
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