Join us for this panel “Systems And Complexity-informed Approaches To Evaluation: A Contribution To ‘Alternative Futures’ during the EES Online conference #EES23 on 15th November 2023!
This panel is hosted by the EES Thematic Working Group “Systems Approaches in Evaluation” (TWG 8). As the youngest TWG in the EES, we have been set up a year ago to help to boost the capacity of the community of evaluation practitioners to support the needed transformation of evaluation practice through more systemic and complexity-sensitive evaluation. Within a year of establishment, our membership has doubled to over 130 members. This rapid growth gives testimony to the growing interest in and relevance of systems- and complexity-informed approaches to evaluation. More information about the vision, mission and objectives of TWG8 is on this webpage: https://lnkd.in/eDJricDx.
In this panel discussion, we want to further build on previous discussions, such as this recent debate (summarized in this blog: https://lnkd.in/eSh8muzB), by bringing in additional perspectives and diverse voices, as part of the many important ongoing developments and discussions taking place in the evaluation field with respect to systems and complexity-informed evaluation.
This women panel will bring diverse voices, multiple perspectives and worldviews to the debate, with interest and experience of using and promoting systems approaches in their evaluation practice. Panelists will discuss what concrete and transformative contributions can be provided to ‘alternative futures’ at the intersection of systems approaches and evaluation. Each of the panelists will ask one key burning question related to this conference theme for discussion with the other panelists, and will contribute with their own perspective and experience. The burning questions discussed by the panel are guided by the overall conference theme, exploring what systems approaches DO, or COULD, contribute to this vision, and to change the way we work as evaluators, in practice. These personal ‘burning issues’ in relation to this overarching framing will give rise to reflexive conversations with fellow-panelists. Join us!
Systems Community of Inquiry 