Dear members of the EvalParticipativa community,
As we close this seven-year cycle of collective work, we wish to celebrate what we have built together: a vibrant community of practice and learning around participatory evaluation and inclusive approaches. Within it, every voice has contributed, every shared experience has enriched us, and every encounter has woven bonds that go beyond isolated practices, now reaching more than four thousand people and multiple organizations.
Throughout these years, we have shared questions, experiences, doubts, tools, and learnings. We created spaces for meeting, training, and reflection where knowledge circulated horizontally, strengthening capacities and broadening perspectives.
None of this would have been possible without the willingness to walk together, to listen to one another, to extend a helping hand, and to build through dialogue—even in complex and uncertain contexts. Today, we know that the most meaningful progress emerges when we bring knowledge together, trust in collective intelligence, and understand that individual growth finds its true meaning within a shared project, as EvalParticipativa itself demonstrates.
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Dear friends of EvalParticipativa,
The EvalParticipativa Podcast is a platform for exchange and collaboration within the Community of Practice and Learning on Participatory Evaluation in Latin America. Each episode seeks to explore and share the knowledge and experiences of key figures in participatory evaluation across the region, where the professional intersects with the personal, and evaluative practice is closely linked to the lived experiences and stories of the interviewees.
Over the past two decades, the movement aimed at achieving evidence-based policies has gained importance and prominence. It holds that policymakers should base their decisions on the best available evidence regarding “what works,” rather than on ideologies or in response to particular interests.
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The EvalParticipativa podcast continues to serve as a platform for the exchange and dissemination of knowledge and experiences among specialists and key figures in participatory evaluation, both from Latin America and other international contexts. Its purpose is to offer an integrative perspective, in which evaluative practice is interwoven with professional trajectories, personal experiences, and the territorial specificities of the interviewees.