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I thought I might share some of the lessons we learned from our Evaluation of FAO’s contribution to SDG 2 – Zero Hunger. [1] I was recently discussing...

MEL provides a helpful framework and tools to accompany the implementation of targeted interventions, with a view to improving agricultural...

Synthesis is nothing new in the evaluation community, but the use of evaluation synthesis has been growing in recent years. This is due in part to the...

I recently used a survey of evaluators to explore the concept of evaluation use, how evaluation practitioners view it and how this translates into...

Peru’s flagship social protection programme, Qali Warma, which means ‘vigorous child’ from the indigenous languages Quechua, provides nutritious food...

A step back in time If we go back to the turn of the century, we can see how much the development assistance paradigm shifted from the 1990s to the...

In our last EvalForward Talks session on 30 April, I shared my experience of how to conduct a capacity-development project review from a monitoring...

Innovation challenges and prizes are mechanisms that use incentives and rewards to encourage innovation. They generally have one problem, however...

Measuring without understanding “puts the cart before the horse”. If we measure something that is unclear or based on wrong assumptions, we are likely...

In the latest EvalForward Talks session, I had the opportunity to share my experience on communicating difficult evaluation findings, drawing from the...

Increasing evidence suggests that humanitarian crises have unequal effects on different portions of the population, requiring differentiated responses...

Community-based forest management in Myanmar started during the 1990s. After a decline in forests, the government realized the importance of villagers...