| Abstract:
Rather than looking at how to improve the quality of evaluations directly, this lecture uses two different careers as a modeling exercise for what constitutes excellence, what characteristics define those individuals, and then uses those characteristics to launch an analysis of their relevance to the quality of evaluation.
This is not, at first glance, a natural or logical pairing. Most basically, their careers can be divided into four quadrants: competence, innovation, persistence, and passion. The lecture will briefly touch on the specifics for each individual in those quadrants before using that heuristic to elaborate on a model for evaluation quality.
Dr. Alice Willard is well-known for lateral approaches in a career that encompasses policy, standards, training, design, quality control, monitoring and evaluation both donor and implementing partner organizations. She has worked in the health, agriculture, education, infrastructure, community/institutional development, relief, community stabilization sectors of international development for almost 30 years.
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