UNESCO’s Internal Oversight Service (IOS) contracted Cathexis Consulting to carry out an evaluation to assess the relevance of UNESCO’s learning and development policy in meeting the current and future needs of the Organization and evaluate the effectiveness and key results of its associated activities. The evaluation was intended to identify strengths as well as to… More
Cathexis evaluates UNESCO’s recruitment policy and practice
UNESCO’s Internal Oversight Service (IOS) contracted Cathexis Consulting to carry out an evaluation of UNESCO’s recruitment policies and practices. The overall purpose of the evaluation, as stated in the Terms of Reference, was to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current recruitment policy and practice by assessing the extent to which the objectives of… More
Priority Sort: An Approach to Participatory Decision-Making
Help! We need to choose 10 indicators from a list of 50 – but which 10? Introducing a quick, participatory & (relatively) painless process for setting evaluation priorities.
Numbers don’t lie …
.….. or do they? A movement started in parts of the English-speaking world in reaction to census questions about people’s religious beliefs.
Evaluator Compensation Survey
What is reasonable compensation for evaluators? What can students expect to earn if they choose a career in evaluation? What do employers need to offer if they want to recruit good evaluators? Find out more from the results of a Canada wide survey of CES members conducted in 2009.
Cathexis’ Meta-Evaluation
This section includes a description of our process for evaluating our own evaluations (meta-evaluation), and the tools that we use to do it.