by Leny van Oijen | Dec 1, 2020 | Blog
(A photo by Pxabay) When asked what I do for a living, the reply that I work in the field of “development” often evokes a question with a slightly sceptical undertone: do you think development aid is effective? As there is no across-the-board response, it usually...
by Lauren Weiss and Weronika Felcis | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog
Context for the Eval4Action Regional Consultation in Europe As noted in EES’ previous blog post, “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...
by Anupam Anand, Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF, Washington DC & Hur Hassnain, Senior Evaluation Advisor, EC DEVCO/ESS, Brussels, Belgium | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog
The presentation titled Geospatial, location, and big data: ‘Where have we been and where can we go?’ organized by the European Evaluation Society, highlighted the main opportunities for the application of geospatial data in evaluation practice. It...
by Joachim Vandercasteelen, Young Professional at World Bank Independent Evaluation Group | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog
The presentation titled ‘Observing from space when evaluators cannot observe in the field’ by Joachim Vandercasteelen discussed how georeferenced data can be used for project evaluations when evaluators cannot travel to the field. The presentation provided...
by Estelle Raimondo, Senior Evaluation Officer at the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog
EES’ 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? began with the session Evaluation and emerging data: what are we learning from early applications? by Estelle...
by Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
Over the past eight months, the novel coronavirus pandemic has infected some 20 million people and killed more than 700,000, sparing virtually no country. The economic and social consequences have been devastating. The virus SARS-CoV-2 that caused COVID-19 crossed...
