In recent years, there has been a growing interest in establishing evidence standards, and with an increasing focus on assessing the quality of evidence for case-based or qualitative approaches to evaluation. Developing and using such standards can help to build greater confidence in qualitative evidence and help users to make sense of large volumes of data within or across projects.

This workshop explores a broad set of people and facilitation skills that are needed across an evaluation - from setting up, to data gathering, managing the process, dealing with conflict, all the way through to sharing learning, to arrive at effective and useful evaluation.

Theories of change are useful for reflection and learning about the effectiveness of the work and a valuable tool in the evaluator’s toolbox. How these theories of change are constructed, communicated, or visualised varies greatly.

EvalNatter is an informal gathering to support networking, with a rough theme to serve as a conversation starter.