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How do we adapt our evaluation approach to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Nick Maunder

Tasked with leading a number of food-security related evaluations, I have been grappling with the challenge of how to adjust to the impact of the...

Discussion

Can we settle for evaluation alone to ensure that the SDGs are achieved?

Posted on 17/03/2020 by Mustapha Malki

In recent years, evaluation has become both an essential discipline and a practice to assess the achievement of development goals around the world: an...

Blog

Evaluation for sustainability and change: the 8th EvalMENA Conference looks forward

Posted on 16/03/2020 by Valentina Prosperi

Public officers, professional evaluators and evaluations users and managers gathered on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea to discuss and advocate for...

Technical Paper

The impact of impact evaluation

Are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middleincome countries? The authors of...

Guidance Document

Utilization Focused Evaluation. A primer for evaluators.

Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to...

Blog

Can technology connect the dots for development evaluation?

Posted on 05/03/2020 by Oscar A. Garcia

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a part of everyone's daily landscape. We are all drowning in data.

Video

Videos on evaluation methods

In these short videos Dr Bassirou Chitou, M&E Expert and international instructor at the International Program for Development Evaluation Training...

Guidance Document

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – Concepts, principles and tools

This guide serves as a resource for national facilitators, for project stakeholders and for other capacity development and monitoring experts to...

Discussion

The farmer as a key participant of M&E: lessons and experiences from Participatory M&E systems

Posted on 02/03/2020 by Emma Gausi

Dear members, It is often bemoaned that Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) is “top-down”, donor-driven and overlooks the views and needs of the farmers who...

Webinar

The new OECD DAC evaluation criteria: what changes for agriculture and food security?

This webinar was held on 12 February 2020 and presented the revised OECD DAC Criteria to interested members of the EvalForward Community of Practice...

Blog

Evaluation practice in Africa: key trends in the landscape

Posted on 27/02/2020 by Caitlin Anna Blaser Mapitsa

Evaluation trends and dynamics have an influence on our work as evaluators. But what exactly are those dynamics?

Blog

How useful are theories of change in development programmes and projects?

Posted on 24/02/2020 by Carlos Tarazona

In the past few years we have witnessed an increased application of theories of change (ToC) in the design and evaluation of development projects.