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When I embarked on my dissertation on impact evaluation work 15 years ago, I observed the new trend of rigorous impact evaluation in international...

One aspect of this investment has included developing the capacity to more efficiently and effectively mine the evidence contained in its portfolio of...

Digital agriculture services provide a key opportunity to improve smallholder farmers’ access to information, markets and financial services. However...

The recent EvalForward discussion confirmed the potential of visual tools to do much more than just communicate evaluation findings. Visual tools...

Even in countries where information is more easily accessible, evaluators may need to be more creative about who they contact, and how they adapt...

People are often worried about the “right way” of doing things. As an evaluator, you may have come across other evaluators and thought “their way of...

Artificial intelligence: A threat or a game-changer? ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. It is a revolutionary technology with the ability to...

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), monitoring...

Evaluators are interpreters. Conversations with real people, at the grassroots, happen in simple, everyday language. Evaluators translate them into...

Since 2009, the United Nations Development Programme Independent Evaluation Office has been organizing the biennial National Evaluation Capacities...

This is the third SDG evaluation our office has conducted (see Olivier Cossée’s experience of evaluating FAO’s contribution to SDG 2 here )...

A ToC typically records the causal linkages between a chain of activities, results, outcomes and impacts, underpinned by their underlying assumptions...