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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...

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

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

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

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

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