When seeking out an evaluation partner, finding the right match is a challenge for both parties — the commissioner and the evaluator.
At times, we make it even harder when we haven’t asked ourselves the right questions in advance. In the spirit of helping evaluation commissioners and practitioners avoid a few of these traps, independent consultant Thomas Aston identifies the five most common mistakes and how to avoid them in this article, authored with Walton Family Foundation Strategy, Learning and Evaluation Department Director Matthew Carr and Deputy Director Johanna Morariu.