by Lauren Weiss | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog
Our first webinar in the series Emerging Data Landscapes in M&E, on Geospatial, location and big data: Where have we been and where can we go? was held on 28 July. We had a lively discussion on the use of these innovative technologies in the world of evaluation. ...
by Tom Ling | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
Authors: Tom Ling, May Pettigrew and Lauren Weiss In such turbulent times of baffling crises, contradiction and uncertainty, we – as an evaluation community – should come together, debate and agree on new ways of doing our professional work to better respond to...
by John Goossen | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog
The monumental challenge posed by the Greek debt crisis required financial assistance on an almost unprecedented scale. John Goossen and Kari Korhonen, as members of the team that have produced a landmark independent evaluation of that financial support, argue that...
by Tom Ling | Jun 18, 2020 | Blog
The public interest can be an elusive concept, especially when we are trying to distinguish between shared and individual interests. This problem has been brought into sharper focus as we attempt to find the right path to a post COVID-19 world. On the one hand, most...
by Marco Segone | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog
Authors: Marco Segone, Director of the Evaluation Office, UNFPA, Khalil Bitar, Chair of Eval Youth, and Lauren Weiss and Gregory McGann from EES In September 2019, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all sectors of society to...
by evapetrova | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
Author: Gregory McGann Teaching is difficult. A 1984 study found that, among students in a class, on average a third learnt the content of the lesson, a third didn’t and a final third already knew the content before it began. Even among the third who actually...
by evapetrova | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog
Join Eval4Action Accelerating the delivery of SDGs by advocating for stronger evaluation capacities and evidence-based policies through a globally coordinated campaign Go to eval4action.org | #Eval4Action The Decade of EVALUATION for action, also the Eval4Action...
by spravceobsahu | Mar 1, 2020 | Blog
The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) is mandated to conduct strategic evaluations aiming to improve the performance of German development cooperation and thereby support sustainable development in Germany’s partner countries. Martin Bruder, head of...
by editor editor | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog
(Eddah Kanini) Introduction of the Project In February 2019, Evaluation actors in Kenya from the African Gender and Evaluation Network (AGDEN) and International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), won a competitive award for innovation challenge by The...
by editor editor | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
Despite making great strides in terms of broadening its appeal and implementing its ideas, impact investment is constrained by the lack of a common language to measure its successes and overcome its obstacles, argues Reagan Ronald Ojok, Senior Monitoring and...
