Why use facilitation in evaluation?
Posted on 04/07/2019 by Federica Bottamedi This is the case of facilitation skills. A recent training held at the FAO Office of Evaluation in Rome by Milton Kamewendo, a professional (and...
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Lessons learned from managing Impact Evaluations on development interventions
Posted on 01/07/2019 by Alan de Brauw Impact evaluation, and particularly randomized control trials, are a credible way to measure the benefits of such programs. Additionally, they can...
What can evaluation do in terms of capacity development?
Posted on 20/06/2019 by Luisa Belli, Lavinia Monforte Improved evaluation capacities can benefit either the programmes evaluated, leading to better future planning and actions; or the evaluative thinking...
Can agriculture and food security policies be effective when statistical data is unreliable?
Posted on 04/06/2019 by Emile Nounagnon HOUNGBO For this purpose, I analysed the process of primary data collection and the food security indicators produced in my country, Benin. As we all know...
Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings
Posted on 08/05/2019 by Giovanna Vacca The evaluation In 2017, the Colombia country office conducted a decentralized midterm evaluation of its Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation...
Is this really an output?
Posted on 05/04/2019 by Natalia Kosheleva I raised this issue with the Community: members shared similar challenges and provided examples of how they addressed various interpretations of...
We need evaluation to support agricultural transformation in Africa
Posted on 01/04/2019 What is the role of evaluation to support sustainable agriculture and end hunger in Africa? To end hunger and improve agriculture in Africa we need...
Celebrating the African evaluation community at the 9th AfrEA Conference
Posted on 22/03/2019 by Renata Mirulla Its 650 registered participants from over 60 countries showed the vitality of the African evaluation community and the attention that evaluation...
Who teaches and learns in an evaluation?
Posted on 28/01/2019 by Harvey Garcia The paper is in the 155th issue of New Directions for Evaluation – “Pedagogy of Evaluation” edited by Michael Quinn Patton, the articles here...
THEORY OF CHANGE – food for thought
Posted on 21/12/2018 by Nanae Yabuki What is a Theory of Change? I looked around the web to find out what definitions are used. Below is my favourite, from betterevaluation.org: "A theory...
Spotlight on Fundamentals of Evaluation: foundations for clear-thinking and well-managed practice
Posted on 06/12/2018 by Renata Mirulla The aim of this EvalMENA pre-conference workshop was to take participants through a journey of reflection and deep thinking around the fundamentals of...
Evaluation of public policies: a call for action from the EvalMena Conference
Posted on 06/12/2018 by Renata Mirulla There were among some 200 evaluation experts, researchers and representatives from governments, international cooperation agencies and NGOs who...