The “Other” Competencies for Effective Practice & Pandemic Response

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• Inside the mind of an evaluation practitioner – the difference between theory and actual practice

• Impact of pandemics, crises, and the rapidly changing context to evaluation practice
  • Disruption to normal processes
  • Uncertainty about the future
  • Discontinuity of core evaluation services
  • Inequalities unearthed or exacerbated
  • Redundancy as some services become unneeded

• Implications:
  • Evaluation practice demands more than conventional set of competencies
  • Competencies previously thought of as peripheral become CORE
  • Evaluator Training must respond to need for additional skills
  • Evaluator Training must build Broad Based Capabilities

• Three broad domains of additional competencies – REFEREE skills:
  • Relational Competencies
  • Enabling Competencies
  • Foundational Competencies