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What Do We Really Value? Rethinking Evaluation from the Roots
This blog post is part of the Series: Tending the Roots of Change: Re‑imagining Strategy and MEL Framing this series of blog posts I have felt the need and the desire to write about planning, learning, and evaluation for some months now, never quite finding the right words, time, or format to do so. I studied Literature for three years at university and then changed to Social Communications, and for a long time I have expressed that I left a ghost of myself on the staircase o
Vanesa Weyrauch
Mar 125 min read


Is there space for creativity in evaluations?
In the past year most of my work has been focused on evaluations. To be candid, I usually find them very challenging (mostly because of...
Vanesa Weyrauch
Jul 31, 20254 min read


The role of art and creativity in research and policy: how do we tell the story of what we do?
Lately, I have been contemplating the importance of broadening our perspectives on how we envision the potential future of our field,...
Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 31, 20243 min read


We need more Rachel Carsons
Rachel Carson revolutionized the way in which science arrived at the eyes of any curious but unexpert reader: she was convinced that...
Vanesa Weyrauch
Jun 26, 20244 min read
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