Thanks Deepak, your point about using an inclusive matrix is especially useful. It suggests that foresight should not sit at the end of an evaluation as an add-on, but should be woven through relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, and cross-cutting issues. In that sense, each criterion can ask both, i.e., What have we learned from past and present performance? And what does this imply for future relevance, resilience, adaptation, and strategic positioning?
For me, this is where future-informed evaluation becomes practical. It helps evaluators design better questions, not just use different tools.
RE: From Hindsight to Foresight: How Evaluation Can Become Future-Informed
Kenya
Steven Lynn Lichty
Managing Partner
REAL Consulting Group
Publicado el 29/04/2026
Thanks Deepak, your point about using an inclusive matrix is especially useful. It suggests that foresight should not sit at the end of an evaluation as an add-on, but should be woven through relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, and cross-cutting issues. In that sense, each criterion can ask both, i.e., What have we learned from past and present performance? And what does this imply for future relevance, resilience, adaptation, and strategic positioning?
For me, this is where future-informed evaluation becomes practical. It helps evaluators design better questions, not just use different tools.