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Tag: Caroline Fiennes

Why evaluating impact is so fraught and what we can do about it

26 April 2017 / kate / 6 Comments

Below are links to a paper I wrote exploring why evaluating impact is so fraught and how communities, NGOs, funders and evaluators can work together better.   The paper, entitled Building a better ecosystem for supporting our communities and the role of evaluation, was was written for the journal “Evaluation Matters – He Take Tō Te…

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More on the compliance costs of seeking funding

9 March 2014 / kate / Leave a comment

Here’s another voice urging funders to reduce our compliance costs and think differently about how we measure our performance – see what Caroline Fiennes in the Stanford Social Innovation Review has to say.    She asks whether “a funder is essentially spending a grant on itself”.    Good question Caroline!

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