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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, Sep 23, 2024 - Sep 27, 2024

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...

Technical Paper

Strengthening and measuring monitoring and evaluation capacity in selected African programmes

This article aims to improve the effectiveness and impact of these capacity strengthening initiatives across Africa. The study adopted a qualitative...

Report

How Can Governments Leverage Policy Evaluation to Improve Evidence Informed Policy Making?

This OEC report provides a broad analysis across 42 countries of the institutionalisation of policy evaluation, its quality and use. This systemic...

Discussion

What type of evaluator are you?

Posted on 27/01/2023 by EvalForward Team

Dear EvalForward members, Evaluators can wear different hats, play a variety of roles and embrace different approaches to their work. What type of...