Blog
Empowering Communities: Evaluating Community Based Approaches in the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Posted on 04/11/2024 by Kate Steingraber Originally published on the Earth-Eval and GEF IEO websites.
Topics: Evaluation results
EvalForEarth Summary
Summary: Evaluability Assessments- an Invitation to Reflect and Discuss.
Issued on 2024 by EvalForward The Evaluation Function of the CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service (IAES), collaborating consultants, and the EvalForward team supported...
Event
IAIA25 Impact Assessment in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Bologna Congressi (Bologna Congress Center), Italy, - Artificial intelligence (AI) will impact every aspect of our lives, our careers, and our environment. It is difficult to predict the effective impact...
Book
Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation
Issued on 2024 by Routledge Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the...
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)...
Book
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This W.K. Kellog Foundation Evaluation Handbook is designed to encourage dialogue about the role evaluation should play at the project level. We...
Guidance Document
The Step-by-Step Guide to evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers
This evaluation guide overviews evaluation process and provides more detail about each stage in the evaluation process. The guide demonstrates how to...
Technical Paper
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners
In this paper, fourteen leading evaluation practitioners were asked to reflect on lessons from the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for...
Blog
Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators
Posted on 04/10/2021 by Gordon Wanzare Evaluation use is a key issue for the evaluation community. The aim of evaluation is to be influential, so it should be of use to policymakers...
Evaluation Synthesis
Evidence pathways to gender equality and food systems transformation
This paper presents 9 critical lessons to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment and transform our food systems, drawing from 47 independent...
Blog
An insight into evaluating agricultural innovation challenges and prizes
Posted on 17/05/2021 by Bhavik DoshiEvaluation Synthesis
Evidence Summary on COVID-19 and Food Security
This evidence summary published by UNEG (United Nations Evaluation Group) and summarized by EvalForward in a brief, looks at the findings, good...
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First thematic interagency humanitarian evaluation identifies 8 good practices for mainstreaming gender equality during humanitarian crises
Posted on 04/03/2021 by Mari HonjoBlog
Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture
Posted on 11/11/2020 by KOUESSI MAXIMIN ZACHARIE KODJO, Pamela Dianne White, Anne Floquet Innovations are key to improve the effectiveness of agri-food systems and better meet the rising demand for food worldwide. In particular, they are...
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Struggling to prove the obvious – How can evaluations show that community-driven development works?
Posted on 18/05/2020 by Johanna Pennarz Community-driven development (CDD) emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources, operating on principles of...