by Scott Chaplowe | May 30, 2022 | Blog
1. Could you please introduce yourself and your specific areas of interest? (If relevant: and who will you be presenting this workshop with?) SCOTT: I have been working in international development for over 25 years, and evaluation for about 19 of those years. I...
by Cristina Cribillers | May 19, 2022 | Blog
By Cristina Cribillers and Maria Pomes-Jimenez The end of April saw a much awaited and solid step ahead for the advancement of public policy evaluation in Spain. The Council of Ministers approved legislation aimed at strengthening, systematising and providing...
by Gregory McGann | May 4, 2022 | Blog
Advanced Content Analysis: Can Artificial Intelligence Accelerate Theory-Driven Complex Program Evaluation? | World Bank Independent Evaluation Group The spectre of artificial intelligence (AI) has haunted the evaluation profession for decades, evoking excitement...
by Daria Blinova | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog
This blog is by Daria Blinova & Julia Rickenbacher, yEES! members P2p+ Europe was thrilled to hold its second career advisory session for young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) in late February. Special guest speaker Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meyer, Head of Evaluation...
by Gregory McGann | Apr 7, 2022 | Blog
What we’re reading in March: Remembering the Learning part of MEL, Machine Learning in GIS and Evaluating Family Planning in Egypt By Greg McGann, EES Blog Editor Learning at the speed of trust: building monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity | itad Few...
by Francesco Bolzonella | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog
Influencing government decisions is an important component of policy change in most political systems. Advocates of structural change must convince policymakers of the worthiness of the changes advocated for. Most advocacy organizations face growing pressure to...
by Karin Kohlweg | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog
Last year, our blog called “Let’s increase efforts to mainstream gender in evaluations!” presented five recommendations to ensure gender is mainstreamed in evaluations. The main takeaways from last year’s blog are: Make gender analysis a...
by Gregory McGann | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog
Inception Report: System-Wide Evaluation of the UNDS Response to COVID-19 | UNSDG As the world dares to hope that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, there is a limited appetite to re-live its horrors through a thorough accounting of institutional...
by Sharon Scotcher | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog
As President of the European Evaluation Society (EES), I strongly endorse the Official appeal of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association to all evaluation communities and share their denunciation of the Russian government’s attack on sovereign Ukrainian territory...
by Gregory McGann | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog
Evaluation and Innovation in a complex world | by UNDP Innovation | Dec, 2021 | Medium This blog by Oscar Garcia, Director of UNDP’s Independent Evaluation Office, was published at the close of last year but is a good look at the innovations, opportunities and...