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Like many evaluation practitioners, I have spent long hours refining causal diagrams, debating arrows, articulating assumptions, and attempting to...

Introduction Development is complex, uncertain, and rapidly evolving. Practitioners often focus on immediate problems and solutions, addressing urgent...

This article relates the work and learning from one of the Systems MLE pilots. This article highlights the systems mapping pilot in Indonesia, the...

Over the past year, #EvalforEarth CoP has continued to grow through strengthened partnerships across agencies and regions. Today,EvalforEarth brings...

Celebrating community, contribution, and collective learning! On 16 December 2025, EvalforEarth marked a milestone with the presentation of its first...

In 2024, I was a member of the evaluation team of the CGIAR Science Groups-Genetic Innovation (GI), Resilient Agrifood Systems (RAFS), and Systems...

The current challenge Although communication is always discussed as a key soft skill in any organisation, the jarring information on UN reports going...

Could you briefly tell us about your experience with the Young and Emerging Evaluators Network? Joao: I’d like to divide my experience into three...

In recent years, Argentina and other Latin American countries have produced several studies on food security policies and cash transfers. However...

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...