Topics: Monitoring & Evaluation

Blog

Climate Transparency: Data, institutions and evaluation to meet the Paris Agreement

Posted on 14/10/2025 by Natalia Aquilino

The construction of solid data frameworks for monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate actions has become a strategic challenge for...

Event

2025 Global Impact Evaluation Forum,

Rome-Hybrid, Oct 10, 2025

The 2025 Global Impact Evaluation Forum, hosted by WFP, in partnership with BMZ and Norad, will build on the momentum of the 2023 WFP Forum in Rome...

Blog

More than Reports: How communications can enhance learning and use from evaluations

Posted on 08/10/2025

By: Aimé Dongmo Ngoutsop, Silvio Galeano, Harriet Matsaert, Abdoulaye Sy At a recent UN Network of Evaluation Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNNESSA...

Event

Zimbabwe’s Inaugural Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Week 2025

Rainbow Towers in Harare., Jul 28, 2025 - Aug 1, 2025

Zimbabwe’s Inaugural Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Week 2025 Under the theme "Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Towards...

Event

Training: What difference did it make? An introduction to impact evaluations using a mixed-methods approach

Abu Dhabi Conference Hall B: Session Room 9 * Onsite, Oct 12, 2025 - Oct 12, 2025

Why attend? Ever wondered if what you're doing is really making a difference? Donors and managers increasingly want to know. Get insights on...

Guidance Document

Gender-responsive evaluation

Issued on 2022 by European Institute for Gender Equality

Gender-responsive evaluations assess to what extent an intervention has resulted in progress (or the lack thereof) towards intended and/or unintended...

Guidance Document

METHODOLOGY AND PROCESSES. EVALUATION MANUAL.

Issued on 2024 by NDB IEO

This Manual provides clear and detailed guidance on evaluation methodologies, processes, approaches and the practical aspects of conducting...

Guidance Document

Interpolating and Extrapolating Impact Estimates: Implications of Ex Post Impact Evaluation Evidence for Projecting Benefits Ex Ante

Issued on 2025 by SPIA

The purpose of this note is to summarize empirical literature in economics addressing two key evidence challenges: (i) scaling up innovations or...

Report

Compendium of Evaluation Methods

Issued by UNEG

Strengthening the professional capacity of UN evaluators to design and manage evaluations is a central objective of the United Nations Evaluation...

Report

Are We Getting There? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5

Issued on 2024 by UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP

As we cross the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and amidst stalled progress on achieving gender equality, the independent...

Guidance Document

Ten steps to a results based monitoring and evaluation system. A handbook for development practitioners

Issued by The World Bank

This guide provides a ten-step model to help plan, design, and implement a results-based M&E system for good management in organisations working in...

Guidance Document

An operational framework for Machine Learning in evaluation

Issued by UNICEF

This document offers practical guidance on how to apply Machine Learning (ML) analytical approaches in evaluations. It presents an operational...

Book

Making monitoring and evaluation systems work : a capacity development toolkit

Issued by World Bank

There are constant and growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to demands from internal and external...

Book

Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition

Issued by World Bank

The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers...

Guidance Document

MONITORING AND EVALUATION UNDAF CAMPANION GUIDANCE

The purpose of this companion guidance piece is to provide practical steps and tools for the UN system in taking an integrated approach to the...

Book

Developing an Effective Evaluation Plan

Issued on 2011 by Atlanta, Georgia: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity

The purpose of this workbook is to help public health program managers, administrators, and evaluators develop a joint understanding of what...

Guidance Document

Designing Monitoring and Evaluation Approaches for Learning

Issued on 2019

This guide provides an excellent high-level overview of monitoring and evaluation design concepts. It clarifies that teams should consider their...

e-learning

FAO: E-learning course: Monitoring and evaluation of child labour in agriculture

Issued by FAO

Monitoring and evaluation of child labour in agriculture This course demonstrates how strong monitoring systems of agricultural programmes can...

e-learning

FAO: E-learning course: Developing a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for food security and agriculture programmes

Issued by FAO

Developing a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for food security and agriculture programmes This course has the objective to support countries and...

Guidance Document

EVALUATION AND COMMUNICATION DECISION-MAKING: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE

Issued on 2017 by Metcalfe, Ontario

Development projects, research initiatives and innovative organizational efforts require evaluations that can confirm outcomes and inform their...

Briefing note

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Issued on 2024 by IFAD IOE

Coffee Talk presented by Anoop Sharma (IOE Consultant) and Hannah Den Boer (Evaluation Analyst).