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EvalForward Talks - Remote evaluations during COVID-19: how can we cope and adapt? What are the best solutions?

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Federica Bottamedi

In the first of a new series of knowledge-sharing sessions open to members of the Community, participants shared how they have adapted their...

Evaluation in times of Covid-19

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected evaluation design?

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Nanae Yabuki

Prior to the pandemic, traveling and face-to-face meetings with stakeholders allowed evaluation managers a degree of flexibility and control over...

Do school feeding and education play a role in keeping girls safe?

Posted on 08/12/2020 by Catrina Perch, Niamh O'Grady

The current ‘ 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Campaign’ [i] is an opportunity to spotlight a growing body of evidence that...

Evaluation questions the value of aid interventions. We need to keep warranting the value of evaluation.

Posted on 02/12/2020 by Aurelie Larmoyer, Veridiana Mansour Mendes

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and/or exacerbated any pre-existing issues worldwide. For evaluators too, since March 2020, additional questions...

We are evaluating a moving picture

Posted on 17/11/2020

She shares her views on what to consider when designing an evaluation, the challenges of producing real-time information and innovative ways of...

Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture

Posted on 11/11/2020 by KOUESSI MAXIMIN ZACHARIE KODJO, Pamela Dianne White, Anne Floquet

In this context, during 2019-2020, the IFAD independent office of evaluation (IOE) conducted a corporate-level evaluation of IFAD’s support to...

Evaluating business innovations in agriculture-based social enterprises

Posted on 26/10/2020 by Ravinder Kumar, Andy Frost

Innovations can take different forms, including technological (probably the most obvious), organizational, business, social and policy. They also can...

Impact Evaluation in the humanitarian space

Resilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence

Posted on 19/10/2020 by Hanna Paulose, Jonas Leo Heirman, Paul Christian, Chloe Fernandez

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to almost double this figure to a projected 265 million. Long-term projections indicate that food security...

Evaluation in times of Covid-19

How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel

Posted on 21/09/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA

All three underscored the importance of data quality in the sector, from calculating food security deficits, food production, and consumption, to more...

Evaluation in times of Covid-19

What challenges does Covid-19 present to independent and credible evaluations?

Posted on 21/07/2020

Dr. Robina Shaheen, Global Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services, Action Against Hunger, UK: There is a greater burden of data...

Global development indicators are not just numbers

Posted on 13/07/2020 by Olivier Cossée

The theme of this year's report is " Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets". The SOFI 2020 report examines the cost of healthy diets...

Evaluation in times of Covid-19

How is the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on movement affecting the conduct of evaluations?

Posted on 30/06/2020

Dr. Robina Shaheen, Global Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services, Action Against Hunger, UK: The biggest effect has been on our ability...