American Evaluation Association blog on Community of Practice (January 2012)

Tayo Fabusuyi called for the establishment of a community of practice for the advocacy evaluation field, where evaluators working on advocacy and policy change evaluations can share with and learn from one another.  He argued that one of the hallmarks of a nascent field, of which advocacy evaluation is one, is the absence of consensus on nomenclature and standards that most stakeholders subscribe to. It thus becomes imperative to foster a community of practice to aid in exchanging knowledge and in creating a body of work that addresses this deficit.

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