Karsten Weitzenegger Consulting

19/05/2026

Europe’s latest Foreign Affairs Council in its Development configuration on 18 May 2026 marks a quiet but significant shift: EU development cooperation is being recast as a geopolitical tool, with Kaja Kallas openly calling for aid, trade and security partnerships to be more tightly aligned with Europe’s strategic interests.
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19/05/2026

24/04/2026

The late Jürgen was one of the most consequential philosophers, sociologists, and public intellectuals of the postwar era, and a foundational thinker for ’s core reference disciplines. His work deserves more than a footnote in our professional memory. https://www.weitzenegger.de/content/?p=31388

24/04/2026

The Feminist Innovation in Monitoring and Evaluation (FIME) Small Awards have produced something very tangible for practitioners: six concrete toolkits that cover the full evaluation cycle, from policy design and crisis response to relocation, community projects, impact investing, and evaluator training. They were developed in real-world settings and respond to gaps most of us know too well: what women and marginalized groups describe as transformative change rarely shows up in our logframes or indicators. Thanks Better Evaluation https://www.weitzenegger.de/content/?p=31403

24/04/2026

Germany’s upcoming North South Commission sits at the intersection of two agendas: repositioning relations with the Global South and shaping a post‑2030 framework to succeed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It can become a strategic platform for rethinking partnerships and global rules, but it also risks ending up as a narrowly framed, low‑impact expert panel. https://www.weitzenegger.de/content/?p=31416

24/04/2026

Most books on organizational learning describe what communities of practice are. This one tells you how to run them. The second edition of the CoP Guidebook, co-authored by four practitioners across corporate, academic, and humanitarian sectors, is the most practically grounded resource on the subject currently available. https://www.weitzenegger.de/content/?p=31432

14/04/2026

By José Antonio Alonso The international aid system is going through one of the most delicate moments in its history, largely due to its inability to respond effectively to changes in the global en…

31/03/2026

By Ian Scoones When Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, stood on the Davos stage and proclaimed that the current moment is not one of transition but one of rupture, everyone seemed to agree. But…

19/01/2026

Had a session with MERL Tech on a critical and evolving topic: how is fundamentally destabilising and reshaping the way produce . The event provided a platform to discuss the unknown implications of these shifts for the sector’s functioning, moving beyond the hype to address the structural changes imposes on aid work.

The Humanitarian AI Working Group recently convened the latest installment of their “Humanitarian AI Countdown” series, a weekly initiative designed to bridge the gap between cutting-ed…

04/12/2025

Relational Evaluation: Shifting from Machine to Garden.
Key Takeaways from the UK Evaluation Society Mini-Conference.
The insightful discussions provided a critical platform to push evaluation forward, focusing on approaches that truly matter and lead to positive change.

Key Takeaways from the UK Evaluation Society Mini-Conference The UK Evaluation Society, in partnership with the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at Manchester Metropolitan University, rec…