What is it about?
There are many intersections between evaluation and facilitation. This issues explores the interplay between evaluation and facilitation, how one practice can inform and serve the other. Authors contributing to this issue represent both the evaluation and facilitation fields. The issue is organized in three sections. The first includes chapters focused on competencies and skills. The second section focuses on the application of facilitation within evaluation. The third section includes chapters on the evaluation of facilitation.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
This volume builds the bridge of knowledge between evaluation and facilitation for the benefit of both professions. There is very little published work on the methods and techniques used to evaluate facilitation. How facilitation approaches and techniques are applied and adapted in different evaluation situations and the skills and competencies needed to master them are also not well documented.
Perspectives
Alissa Schwartz, MSW, PhD, in an independent organizational consultant with a practice in participatory facilitation, program evaluation, leadership development, and strategy planning. You can learn more about her work from her website at www.solidfireconsulting.com. Rita S. Fierro, PhD, is the founder of Fierro Consulting, LLC, working for national and international organizations, nonprofits, foundations, and innovative businesses worldwide. Dr. Fierro combines community organizing strategies and program evaluation to help groups experience excellence while they achieve positive social impact. For more information about her work go to: www.fierroconsultingllc.com. Dawn Hanson Smart focused her independent consulting practice on collaboration and participatory work on evaluation, strategic planning and organizational development with nonprofits and local and state government in early childhood education, employment development, HIV/AIDS, housing, public health, and social justice. Moving into retirement, she now concentrates primarily on coaching and capacity-building. For more information go to: dawnsmartLLC@gmail.com
Dr Alissa Schwartz
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Editors’ Notes, New Directions for Evaluation, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ev.20175.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
