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Context and Background Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030 and National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), place...

As part of the larger UN80 Initiative calling for a more coherent humanitarian system, UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s recent report, Shifting...

Qualitative methods are intended to explore the socially constructed nature of human relationships by examining the intricacies of social phenomena as...

The conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evaluation is well underway within EvalforEarth Community of Practice (CoP). Through a rich...

Rome’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters pulsed with energy this October when the 2025 World Food Forum (WFF) opened its doors. The...

The construction of solid data frameworks for monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate actions has become a strategic challenge for...

At a recent UN Network of Evaluation Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNNESSA) learning event, we shared how FAO’s Office of Evaluation (OED) is...

Who counts as an emerging evaluator? Emerging Evaluator? What does that even mean? The concept of the Emerging Evaluator (EE) is not as...

While standardized tools can capture observable outcomes, they often miss the internal drivers such as motivation, perception, and hesitation that...

Do Big Projects Deliver in a Complex World? Why Scale Alone is not Enough for Success In the world of international development, the size of a project...

This blog reflects on a core moment in our Systems MEL journey: the prototype testing of the Guidance. We share what we’re learning: not only about...

Yet, as SSTC grows in importance, the need for credible and systematic evaluation becomes more urgent. Evaluations help move SSTC beyond political...