by editor editor | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
Riitta Oksanen is the President of EES. She works as a senior advisor at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Evaluation Unit. In this post Riitta triangulates with Fredrik Korfker former Chief Evaluator of the EBRD and now active as development...
by editor editor | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
There is no ‘immaculate conception’ in the birth of a profession. Professionalization is driven by the collective exertions of a cohesive occupational group competing in the public arena. Thus, medicine triumphed over homeopathy. Psychiatry took over the terrain of...
by editor editor | Aug 20, 2015 | Blog
The consultative process carried out by EvalPartners aims to identify key priorities for evaluation for a Global Agenda geared to achieving progress towards a more equitable world. Strong support has been voiced for evaluation independence, quality, capacity building...
by editor editor | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog
How to Foster Sustainability I feel myself standing in the village, the white trucks have just left. Space and time telescope for a minute and I am her. I am that woman, Aminata, in a village in central Mali, living from millet and goat milk, walking two hours for...
by editor editor | May 5, 2015 | Blog
The Global Agenda 2016-2020, well defined, represents a well thought long term agenda for evaluation. The key priorities for evaluation i.e., independence, capacity building and quality, partnerships and equity are well laid out within four main sections. Of course...
by editor editor | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog
My warm thanks to all who contributed to the first round of discussion on the Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020! The dates of the 2nd EvalPartners Global Forum have now been set. The global evaluation community will review and endorse its 2016-2020 agenda in Nepal on...
by editor editor | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog
Your opinion matters to us. It will help shape the EES contribution to the deliberations that will culminate in the official launch of the Global Evaluation Agenda in Kathmandu (Nepal) in November 2015. Preliminary priorities identified through the EvalYear process so...
by editor editor | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog
Riitta Oksanen is the Vice-President of the EES. She works as a senior advisor at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Evaluation Unit. In this post Riitta triangulates with Julia Brümmer who is a Project Monitoring Officer at the Lutheran World...
by editor editor | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
Riitta Oksanen is the Vice-President of the EES. She works as a senior advisor at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Evaluation Unit. In this post Riitta diablogues with Rakesh Mohan who is the Director of the Office of Performance Evaluations...
by editor editor | Jul 19, 2014 | Blog
Evaluation conferences are a great way of learning and networking. I really think so, anyway. And yet, I believe they could and should be even better. I’m not sure exactly how, but I’m quite convinced that by adopting some of the so-called “open spaces technologies”...
