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About this brief: “Developmental evaluation supports innovation development to guide adaptation to emergent and dynamic realities in complex environments.” (Patton, 2011, p. 1) Developmental Evaluation (DE) works best under the umbrella of Utilization-focused evaluation. UFE is a decision-making framework that allows projects to take ownership over evaluation. UFE is a tool for designing or updating a monitoring, evaluation and learning plan (MEL). A separate UFE brief is available and guides the main steps of UFE.
Keywords: developmental evaluation, monitoring, learning, decision-making, collaborative evaluation