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Date(s) - 14/05/2026
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Illuminate Learning Centre
12 and 14 May 2026 9am – 12pm ET
Scott Chaplowe is teaching this course again in May through Illuminate Learning Center — and based on strong participant feedback, it has been expanded this year to two full modules. He first worked with RTE in humanitarian contexts with the Red Cross Red Crescent, where the stakes of delayed evaluative learning can have significant consequences. But the more he worked with RTE, the more he saw that what makes it indispensable in humanitarian response — volatility, uncertainty, and the need to adapt and course-correct — is increasingly the norm across sectors as the frequency and magnitude of disruption increases worldwide. That has led him to champion the use of RTE beyond humanitarian context, a key message in his chapter Real-Time Evaluation – Past and Potential in the Research Handbook on Program Evaluation (Edward Elgar, 2024).
By the end of the course, participants will understand:
✔ What RTE is, and how it relates to other rapid evaluation and real-time learning approaches
✔ RTE’s humanitarian roots and the drivers behind its growing use across sectors
✔ When RTE is — and isn’t — the right tool
✔ Key considerations for commissioning, planning, managing, and conducting RTEs
✔ How to build an effective RTE team
✔ Data collection methods suited to real-time constraints, including remote approaches
✔ How AI can support rapid RTE
✔ Reporting and communication strategies that put learning to immediate use