I am so proud of you that you brought this topic openly. We as evaluators always performed neutrality and impartiality. But many organization such as UN, WB, ADB etc. (as Abubakar says "Most often Evaluators are selected due to some connections and when selected they hope to be selected again in the future") get into a comfort zone with some sets of evaluators or evaluations companies over and over.
I have review many evaluation reports and found deterioration of professionalism in evaluation reporting, either because: a) very biased, b) lacking of synergies between findings vs. recommendation vs. conclusion, c) large reports of nearly 100s pages, without productive analysis, lack of productive data collection, less professionalism in data collections as well as questionnaires. These are few of my observations.
I think time is up now to raise a voice on this also pushing for evaluation professionalism given priorities above, in order to save this profession.
RE: Neutrality-impartiality-independence. At which stage of the evaluation is each concept important?
Sri Lanka
Isha Miranda
Visiting Lecturer and Independent Evaluator
Independent Consultant
Posted on 01/02/2022
Dear Mallika
I am so proud of you that you brought this topic openly. We as evaluators always performed neutrality and impartiality. But many organization such as UN, WB, ADB etc. (as Abubakar says "Most often Evaluators are selected due to some connections and when selected they hope to be selected again in the future") get into a comfort zone with some sets of evaluators or evaluations companies over and over.
I have review many evaluation reports and found deterioration of professionalism in evaluation reporting, either because: a) very biased, b) lacking of synergies between findings vs. recommendation vs. conclusion, c) large reports of nearly 100s pages, without productive analysis, lack of productive data collection, less professionalism in data collections as well as questionnaires. These are few of my observations.
I think time is up now to raise a voice on this also pushing for evaluation professionalism given priorities above, in order to save this profession.