The youth transformative participatory evaluator education and training approach: The EvalYouth experience

Abstract

In the face of unprecedented and ever‐changing challenges at the local, national, and global levels, evaluation must change too. Our old ways no longer serve us or the field's social, economic, political, and humanitarian betterment aims. Taking these aims seriously means much must change, including how we educate and train. In this article, we lay out a vision for what must happen within evaluator education and training and examples of how a transformative frame can be successfully integrated. With the great challenges our countries and societies face, we revisit three fundamental questions: what do evaluator education and training ‘done well’ mean? What should such education and training look like? Who should lead it?