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Evaluation in the age of big data: Opportunities and challenges in agriculture and food security

Posted on 16/04/2020 by Michael Bamberger

Most evaluations require adjusting methodology to real-world constraints, whether they be economic, technical, organizational, political, or related...

Event

Webinaire: Les nouveaux critères d'évaluation de l'OCDE/CAD

Online , Apr 22, 2020 - Apr 22, 2020

EvalForward avec le réseau EvalNet de l'OCDE organise le webinaire: Les nouveaux critères d'évaluation de l'OCDE/CAD 22 Avril 2020, 15:00 - 16:00...

Guidance Document

Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors

This Guidance Note focuses on how to design a national Monitoring & Evaluation system for tracking adaptation action, policies and plans in...

Report

Integrating Big Data into the Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes

This report published by the UN Global Pulse provides guidelines for evaluators, evaluation and programme managers, policy makers and funding agencies...

Report

Measuring results and impacts in the age of Big Data: the Nexus of Evaluation, Analytics, and Digital Technology

In this report published by the Rockfeller Foundation, Peter York, Michael Bamberger and Veronica OlazabaI take an in-depth look at how new...

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Is SDG Evaluation just business as usual?

Posted on 06/04/2020 by Stefano D'Errico

Yes, SDG Evaluation could be considered business as usual, if that’s how we see the SDGs. But can we really afford to treat evaluation of progress...

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Young People in Agriculture – What lessons can we draw from evaluations?

Posted on 01/04/2020 by DOROTHY LUCKS

Youth are becoming increasingly disconnected from the agriculture sector, despite the evidence that there have been some efforts over the years to...

Discussion

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...

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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...