Topics: Evaluation process

Discussion

Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence

Posted on 25/08/2021 by Gordon Wanzare

Dear EvalForward members, Use of evaluation has attracted a lot of attention recently due to the acknowledgement of the critical importance of...

Journal Article

Assumptions, conjectures, and other miracles: The application of evaluative thinking to theory of change models in community development

This paper describes an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help community development practitioners work more effectively with...

Guidance Document

Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Evaluation – like development aid itself – can unintentionally exacerbate tensions in ways that can negatively affect people and institutions if care...

Blog

The road ahead: Evaluators must promote learning for adaptive development processes

Posted on 03/06/2021 by Masahiro Igarashi

As evaluators, we are faced with the growing complexity of the times in which we live and the challenge of making our mark on development efforts to...

Blog

How best to evaluate capacity development?

Posted on 24/05/2021 by Cornelia Rietdorf

Blog

Understanding first: Why putting understanding before measurement matters

Posted on 12/04/2021 by Federica Bottamedi, Renata Mirulla

Blog

How do you communicate difficult evaluation findings?

Posted on 19/03/2021 by Jennifer Nzambi Mutua

Blog

Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar

Posted on 26/02/2021 by Binod Chapagain

Blog

Behind the glossy cover: six reflections on communicating evaluations

Posted on 22/02/2021 by Alexander Voccia

Guidance Document

Getting Evidence Quicker: the development of Rapid Evaluations in selected African Countries

This brief by Twende Mbele looks at Rapid Evaluations in the public sector of selected African Countries. Rapid evaluations are intended to reduce the...

Blog

Making voices count - Gathering community feedback in times of remote evaluation

Posted on 11/02/2021 by Johanna Pennarz, Prashanth Kotturi

Blog

EvalForward Talks - Remote evaluations during COVID-19: how can we cope and adapt? What are the best solutions?

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Federica Bottamedi

Blog

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected evaluation design?

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Nanae Yabuki

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on travel and face-to-face meetings have had a major impact on evaluation design.

Video

Evaluation: les ficelles du métier

Dans cette vidéo, Olivier Cossée du Bureau de l’évaluation de la FAO, donne des conseils pratiques sur comment combiner approches qualitatives et...

Blog

Evaluation questions the value of aid interventions. We need to keep warranting the value of evaluation.

Posted on 02/12/2020 by Aurelie Larmoyer, Veridiana Mansour Mendes

As evaluators, do we know what value we bring? The question is not new, nurtured by the rise of the ‘post-truth politics” (KALPOKAS, 2019). Despite...

Discussion

External coherence of agriculture interventions

Posted on 23/11/2020 by Nabyouré Jean Stanislas OUEDRAOGO

Dear members, I would like to share with you one of the themes I am working on at the moment. In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector is the field of...

Blog

We are evaluating a moving picture

Posted on 17/11/2020

We interviewed Julia Betts, independent evaluation consultant, who is currently supporting WFP evaluation activities related to the response to COVID...

Guidance Document

Engaging your audience. Creative communications for evaluation dissemination.

This interactive report has been produced to disseminate the findings of the study on evaluation dissemination at DG DEVCO, EU Delegations and non-EU...

Guidance Document

Evaluation in Hard-to-Reach Areas

This paper presents an overview of innovative technologies to overcome the obstacles to evaluation in fragile and conflict affected states and in hard...

Event

What’s new in developing evidence products to support decision-makers?

Online, Oct 27, 2020 - Oct 27, 2020

The session is part of EvalXchange is a new series of virtual learning events organized by the Office of Evaluation of the World Food Programme and...

Discussion

Rapid evaluation to measure the impact of the COVID pandemic in mountainous areas

Posted on 12/10/2020 by Malika Bounfour

Hello community, I work with NGOs in the mountainous areas near Marrakech and I am a member of one of them. We see the impact of the COVID pandemic on...