Guidance Document
Project/programme monitoring and evaluation (M&E) guide
The purpose of this Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) guide, published in September 2021, is to promote a common understanding and reliable practice of...
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Blog
Will artificial intelligence replace us as evaluators?
Posted on 19/03/2023 by Rami Assaf Technological progress can make jobs obsolete, will evaluators follow suit?
Discussion
A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Posted on 15/03/2023 by Daniel Ticehurst Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), monitoring...
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“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Posted on 14/03/2023 by Daniel Ticehurst There is an apparent irony in the fact that systems supposedly designed to help us learn from experience have been so reluctant to learn from their...
Event
European Evaluation Society Conference
Rimini, Italy, - The EES Conference was held in Rimini (Italy) from 23 to 27 September 2024, around the theme Better Together 2024: Collaborative Thought and Action...
Webinar
Evaluation through the lens of brain science: Building a humanized approach for better results
Live on 22/03/2023 This event focused on how brain science can enhance the transformative potential of evaluations, and how this is impacting IFAD in particular. Dr...
Guidance Document
Evaluability Assessments in Austrian development cooperation
Evaluability Assessments (EAs) aim at determining the overall quality of the design of an intervention, whether a programme, a project, a strategy, or...
Blog
Evaluators are interpreters. What about ChatGPT?
Posted on 27/02/2023 by Silva Ferretti Is Artificial Intelligence smart enough to make our evaluation work easier, and how far we can go with using it?
Event Proceedings
Proceedings from the 2022 National Evaluation Capacities Conference
The 2022 National Evaluation Capacities conference (Turin, October 2022) brought 300 participants together from over 100 countries to discuss...
Technical Paper
An empirically driven theory of poverty reduction
This research project paper of CEDIL describes the use of secondary evaluation data from four government unconditional cash transfer programmes (UCTs)...
Technical Paper
Grounding evaluation capacity development in systems theory
This article illustrates how evaluation capacity development practitioners can use systems theory as a conceptual tool to gain a better understanding...
Guidance Document
Key informant identification in M&E system diagnosis
This paper from the Global Evaluation Initiative provides some recommendations regarding the identification of key stakeholders to strengthen M&E...