by Rai Sengupta | May 21, 2026 | Blog
Yulye Jessica Romo Ramos (Co-lead of the EES’ thematic working group 1: “Equity & Gender” and Director of Nexus Evaluation) organised and moderated a webinar with Rai Sengupta (Evaluation Consultant, UNICEF Evaluation Office and recipient of the Global Evaluation...
by Peter van der Knaap, PhD | May 19, 2026 | Blog
The theme of the 16th EES conference is ‘Evaluation for Vibrant Democracies’. Given the record number (!) of submissions to contribute to the congress with sessions and presentations, this theme clearly struck a chord in the European evaluation community… Which...
by Dea Tsartsidze | May 14, 2026 | Blog
There is a particular disorientation that comes from leaving your own context, your city, your colleagues, your familiar debates, and walking into a room full of people doing the same work, just somewhere else entirely. I experienced it twice in 2025. In May, at the...
by Natalia Kryg | Apr 27, 2026 | Blog, Institutional Members' Blogs
At the recent EBRD Evaluation Week 2026, the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) panel on “Enhancing MDBs’ Additionality for stronger private sector resilience” returned to a familiar concept – additionality – but from a more demanding angle.1 The...
by Dea Tsartsidze | Mar 17, 2026 | Blog
In this blog, Dea Tsartsidze and Richard Smith share personal highlights – as a participant and organizer, respectively – from the 2025 Learning Lab organised by the Outcome Mapping Learning Community (OMLC) and partners on the theme Enhancing participatory,...
by Jaqueline Singh | Feb 27, 2026 | Blog
Evaluation increasingly takes place in complex, multi-layered contexts where programs, policies, and systems overlap, and where meaning is rarely stable or shared at the outset. In such settings, evaluators are often asked to move quickly—toward designs, indicators,...