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While “systemic thinking” is popular in the context of capacity development and evaluation, there is currently a lack of understanding about the benefits to employing systems theory in evaluation capacity development. Systems theory provides a useful...

Impacts of climate shocks risk undermining or even reversing sustainable development progress both locally and globally. Solutions that work now may not be suitable for the future: there is an urgent need for countries and the international community...

This glossary developed by the African Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank provides translation of all evaluation technical terms between English, French and Arabic, based on the OECD-DAC Network on Development Evaluation originally...

A series of brochures on the OECD/DAC Criteria has been developed by the Asia Pacific Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation under the guidance of Engaging parliamentarians for demand and use of evaluation of Asia Pacific Regional Evaluation Strategy...

This guide provides an overview of the use of both traditional and novel data sources in generating poverty maps and the related methodological implications. It includes both traditional and new methods and data sources in generating poverty maps...

This EVALSDGs Evaluation Insight focuses on the need to mainstream environmental sustainability in the evaluation of all interventions, even when environmental sustainability is not a stated goal. It shows that for the most part, this is not...

While over time theories of change have become synonymous with simple if/then statements, a strong theory of change should actually be a much more detailed, context-specific articulation of how we *theorize* change will happen under a program...

CEDIL's working paper demonstrates that measurement is crucial to evaluation. Without appropriate measures, we cannot assess the effectiveness of policy. In this latest CEDIL Methods Working Paper, the authors address several conceptual issues linked...

This guideline of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) of South Africa provides guidance to evaluators and commissioners of evaluation on how to apply an equity criterion in evaluation.

This guideline from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) of South Africa provides technical guidance on applying a Climate and Ecosystem Health (CEH) lens when undertaking evaluative work.

This practical manual provides guidance on how to use geographic information systems (GIS) in the monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects. With over 20 maps showing IFAD-funded projects, it describes how to map a project's activities...

This manual from ENAP demonstrates key concepts, methodological issues, as well as practical examples from the authors and reflective chapters. The manual is organized by: (1) a conceptual phase, (2) methodological phase, (3) empirical and analytical...

This presentation illustrates four pathways how Country-led Evaluations can inform the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). The presentation also demonstrates the difference with the Country-led Evaluations and VNRs.

Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, methods and approaches for evaluating sustainable development interventions have remained largely unchanged and are failing to provide a basis for understanding how future...