RE: Evaluation under pressure : Strengthening evidence use, accountability and learning amidst funding constraints (Joint EvalforEarth-ALNAP discussion)

I agree with you that peer evaluation should not compromise independent evaluations. Indeed, external expertise remains key in evaluation. 

Peer evaluation would hardly work in institutions that have already defined how they do it. For example, in UN Agencies and other institutions that, by their internal policies, have already specified how they evaluate. 

Peer evaluation of programs/projects can be a topic for debate among Local Implementing Partners. They are increasingly running short of funds, yet the pressure/need to properly evaluate their funded projects is rising. I like your point that the concept can help to improve national evaluation capacities.

You paused a very interesting question “how can we ensure that the savings achieved through peer review are actually reinvested in organisational learning and the implementation of recommendations?” 

Organizations out there could have interesting views on it alongside those from this platform.

Thanks!