This is an important point Alexis...thank you for contributing. I especially appreciate your observation that lessons from evaluation are often documented but not meaningfully carried forward into future design, policy, or practice. Your comment reinforces why a more future-oriented approach matters....evaluation should not only capture what happened, but also help ensure that learning remains usable, transferable, and alive beyond the life of a single intervention. Learning and education have strong futures/foresight elements by default. How can we better integrate forward-looking learning in our evaluations?
RE: From Hindsight to Foresight: How Evaluation Can Become Future-Informed
Kenya
Steven Lynn Lichty
Managing Partner
REAL Consulting Group
Posted on 18/04/2026
This is an important point Alexis...thank you for contributing. I especially appreciate your observation that lessons from evaluation are often documented but not meaningfully carried forward into future design, policy, or practice. Your comment reinforces why a more future-oriented approach matters....evaluation should not only capture what happened, but also help ensure that learning remains usable, transferable, and alive beyond the life of a single intervention. Learning and education have strong futures/foresight elements by default. How can we better integrate forward-looking learning in our evaluations?