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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...

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...

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

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