First of all, I would like to thank you for initiating this reflection and discussion on a subject as relevant as evaluability assessments (EA). Your invitation to explore this topic has given me much food for thought.
Evaluability assessments are a powerful tool for ensuring the quality and usefulness of evaluations. They help to clarify expectations, identify potential challenges, and ensure that interventions are designed in a way that allows for rigorous and constructive evaluation. To maximise their impact, I believe it would be crucial to improve communication about their added value, train stakeholders in their usefulness, and ensure their systematic integration into the planning of interventions, particularly those linked to the SDGs. In doing so, evaluability assessments can make a significant contribution to the continuous improvement of development programmes and the achievement of expected results.
I look forward to reading the thoughts of other members of the community on this topic.
Yours sincerely
Jonas SAGNO
Sociologist & Director of Programmes and Resource Mobilisation at the NGO Gigantesq Connexion(Incubator & Accelerator of Projects focused on Sustainable Development)
RE: Evaluability Assessments: An invitation to reflect and discuss
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Jonas SAGNO
Programs and Resource Mobilization Director
Gigantesq Connexion NGO
Posted on 26/08/2024
[Translated from French original]
Dear Amy,
First of all, I would like to thank you for initiating this reflection and discussion on a subject as relevant as evaluability assessments (EA). Your invitation to explore this topic has given me much food for thought.
Evaluability assessments are a powerful tool for ensuring the quality and usefulness of evaluations. They help to clarify expectations, identify potential challenges, and ensure that interventions are designed in a way that allows for rigorous and constructive evaluation. To maximise their impact, I believe it would be crucial to improve communication about their added value, train stakeholders in their usefulness, and ensure their systematic integration into the planning of interventions, particularly those linked to the SDGs. In doing so, evaluability assessments can make a significant contribution to the continuous improvement of development programmes and the achievement of expected results.
I look forward to reading the thoughts of other members of the community on this topic.
Yours sincerely
Jonas SAGNO
Sociologist & Director of Programmes and Resource Mobilisation at the NGO Gigantesq Connexion(Incubator & Accelerator of Projects focused on Sustainable Development)