Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development

• DOI: 10.1002/ev.20323
• Publication Date: 2018-04-16T23:39:22Z
• Authors: Thomas Archibald; Guy Sharrock; Jane Buckley; Stacey Young
• Keywords: International development

Abstract International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among practitioners can foster more complexity‐aware monitoring and evaluation for learning adaptive management. Instead of simply executing technical processes based on predetermined plans, be “knowledge workers” who use collaboration, learning, adaptation. In this chapter, framed in the context United States Agency Development's ongoing efforts become a effective organization, we describe one such ECB initiative implemented by Catholic Relief Services Zambia, Ethiopia, Malawi. The chapter provides reflections practical application empirical grounding theoretical concepts related learning‐focused evaluation.