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Evaluation synthesis: an added boost to corporate learning

Posted on 12/10/2021 by Rachel Sauvinet Bedouin

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...

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Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators

Posted on 04/10/2021 by Gordon Wanzare

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

National ownership paramount – 5 lessons from a country-led impact evaluation in Peru

Posted on 28/06/2021 by Rica Terbeck-Soine, Nicola Theunissen

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

The road ahead: Evaluators must promote learning for adaptive development processes

Posted on 03/06/2021 by Masahiro Igarashi

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...

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How best to evaluate capacity development?

Posted on 24/05/2021 by Cornelia Rietdorf

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...

An insight into evaluating agricultural innovation challenges and prizes

Posted on 17/05/2021 by Bhavik Doshi

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

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Understanding first: Why putting understanding before measurement matters

Posted on 12/04/2021 by Federica Bottamedi, Renata Mirulla

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

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How do you communicate difficult evaluation findings?

Posted on 19/03/2021 by Jennifer Nzambi Mutua

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

First thematic interagency humanitarian evaluation identifies 8 good practices for mainstreaming gender equality during humanitarian crises

Posted on 04/03/2021 by Mari Honjo

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

Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar

Posted on 26/02/2021 by Binod Chapagain

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

Behind the glossy cover: six reflections on communicating evaluations

Posted on 22/02/2021 by Alexander Voccia

Have you ever noticed that beneficiaries always tend to be smiling on the front cover of development reports? I sometimes wonder how realistic this is...

Evaluation in times of Covid-19

Making voices count - Gathering community feedback in times of remote evaluation

Posted on 11/02/2021 by Johanna Pennarz, Prashanth Kotturi

In 2020, IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation undertook a project evaluation of the National Programme Community Empowerment in Indonesia. [1] This...