Evaluation, Ahead of Print.
This ‘roundup’ review of evaluation blogs, podcasts and webinars covers the second half of 2024. The roundup is organised around key trends that emerged throughout the second half of the year: (1) multi-perspectival storytelling, (2) sustainability amid the polycrisis and (3) the promise and potential pitfalls of feminist evaluation. It then discusses two meta-trends related to the challenges of drawing evaluative boundaries and seeking parsimonious explanations. These cut across the trends mentioned in the three roundups so far. The article ends with a brief reflection on some potentially promising initiatives in the evaluation field to addressing some of the bigger challenges of the day.