{"id":37,"date":"2020-04-23T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontoevaluation.ca\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2020-05-05T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:30:40","slug":"innovations-and-adaptations-during-crisis-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontoevaluation.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/innovations-and-adaptations-during-crisis-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations and adaptations during crisis times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions was founded with a philosophy that evaluations of interventions need to adapt to the complexities driven both by changes in the intervention over time as well as changes across contexts. The pandemic provides remarkable challenges for both the program implementation and evaluation communities to be adaptive and responsive given unparalleled levels of disruption. 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