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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...