| Abstract:
The life of evaluators and evaluation clients can be deeply enriched through the application Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to Evaluation. This highly interactive session will have a short experience using AI to clarify program desirable outcomes, and develop evaluation questions and measures. The session will using an appreciative process and then build on the data that comes out of the practice. It will also provide examples of AI applications in different sectors and contexts, and variation and options in AI application (domestic and international organizations, government and nonprofits, at the community, organizational, national, and international levels). The session will show how applying Appreciative Inquiry to evaluation can help participants learn (clarifying the goals and purpose of evaluation, engaging stakeholders in exciting new ways, broadening participation, deepening the culture competence of evaluation, bringing a whole systems view to evaluation, and, ultimately, building evaluation and organizational capacity).
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