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This study was initiated by the Using Evaluation to Report on the SDGs Thematic Group primarily to determine the status of M&E practices for SDG implementation among countries in the Asia Pacific Region. Specifically, the study sought to answer the...

This paper of the World Bank Group (2023) busts two myths regarding the use of case-based designs in evaluations that aim to answer effectiveness questions and unpack the relationships between interventions and observed changes in outcomes, broadly...

This book of the Multi-Donor Learning Partnership (2022) represents the experience, learning, and opinions of individuals working in the world’s most significant development donors, with the belief that collaboration across our entities can help us...

EvalForward was developed with the purpose to Improve national capacities in conducting or using evaluations related to agriculture, rural development and food security through the establishment of an international network (built around an...

The United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Strengthening Voluntary National Reviews through Country-led Evaluation was adopted during the 69 th plenary meeting of the seventy-seventh General Assembly on 26 April 2023. This milestone for...

This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and...

This document provides guidance and tools that will help farmer field schools to bring about the change expected by setting up a robust monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) system. It targets designers, managers and staff involved in the...

This tip sheet from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) draws on Network experience in capacity development and joint evaluation to provide some basic “tips” to advise managers and evaluators in development agencies on...

This brief has been prepared by the Development Evaluation Unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and published in March 2023. The purpose of this brief is to raise awareness on the topic and illustrate ways in which evaluations funded...

The purpose of this Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) guide, published in September 2021, is to promote a common understanding and reliable practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for the International Committee of the Red Cross (IFRC) project...

Evaluability Assessments (EAs) aim at determining the overall quality of the design of an intervention, whether a programme, a project, a strategy, or a policy. They serve as a compass for subsequent evaluations by assessing readiness for evaluation...

The 2022 National Evaluation Capacities conference (Turin, October 2022) brought 300 participants together from over 100 countries to discuss ‘Resilient National Evaluation Systems for Sustainable Development’. The conference took stock of national...

This research project paper of CEDIL describes the use of secondary evaluation data from four government unconditional cash transfer programmes (UCTs) to identify high- and low-flyers, that is, those households that are able to use the income shock...

This article illustrates how evaluation capacity development practitioners can use systems theory as a conceptual tool to gain a better understanding of the functional aspects and interrelationships present within a given evaluation system...