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Background: Not all evaluation practitioners are experts in the diversity of impact evaluation approaches. How can these approaches be made clear and accessible? How can practitioners be better able to choose the relevant one? A collaborative project was initiated in 2021 to address these questions and involved the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) evaluation officers, external evaluators, and public-sector codesigners. Purpose: This article presents the development of a visual tool designed to facilitate meaningful discussions between evaluation officers and project managers regarding an array of available impact evaluation approaches. In our view, the positive reception of the map of uses of impact evaluation approaches within and beyond the AFD underscores the significance of anchoring discussions on evaluation scope and methodologies in real-world evaluation uses. Setting: Not applicable. Intervention: Not applicable. Research Design: Not applicable. Data Collection and Analysis: Not applicable. Findings: Not applicable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the scenario of collaborative services, which rely on a greater participation of individuals in the generation of the service they benefit from and a higher collaboration amongst themselves, to answer questions about sustainable living. It examines research projects conducted by the author and students from more than 30 design schools and universities in Europe, Brazil, China, India and Africa regarding the forms of social innovation. These projects identified six forms of organization including community housing, extended home and elective community.