Evaluation for dummies?

As someone who is new to monitoring and evaluation (brand spanking new! two months new!), I often wonder how other people felt when they first entered the field of evaluation. With so many new acronyms, terms and tools that I don't know how to use, how am I ever going to catch up with my colleagues? It takes a succession of baby steps, and I wrote a list of 5 tips to share for baby evaluators.

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But do you ACTUALLY take “local input”?

But do you ACTUALLY take “local input”?

But we weren’t talking scale of the project that morning. We were worrying about why it was so HARD to get artists actually from the Tremé to actually apply for the spaces. To me, the issue circles around some keywords often thrown around in proposals and board rooms, but devilishly difficult to implement...

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