Discussion
What type of evaluator are you?
Posted on 27/01/2023 by EvalForward Team Dear EvalForward members, Evaluators can wear different hats, play a variety of roles and embrace different approaches to their work. What type of...
Topics: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Innovating in monitoring and evaluation to better respond to the needs of decision-makers at national level
Posted on 15/06/2022 by Monica Lomena, KOUESSI MAXIMIN ZACHARIE KODJO Facing new challenges in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requires innovation.
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Emerging evaluator programme shows that sustainable capacity development initiatives are possible
Posted on 29/04/2022 by Nicola Theunissen, Renata MirullaGuidance Document
How to Establish a National Evaluation System
This guideline seeks to help countries who are thinking of establishing a national evaluation system (NES) and suggests the minimum requirements for...
Guidance Document
Establishing a National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy
Twende Mbele has developed a guideline on establishing a national monitoring and evaluation policy (NMEP) or evaluation policy (NEP), targeting the M...
Discussion
Evaluating agroecology: what is your experience?
Posted on 27/04/2022 by Seda Kojoyan Dear EvalForward Community, As evaluators working in the agriculture field, we increasingly need to assess the environmental and socioeconomic...
Guidance Document
Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) - Test version
With the help of multiple partners, FAO has developed a global analytical framework for the multidimensional assessment of the performance of...
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Evaluation and performance assessments for agroecology
Posted on 20/04/2022 by Seda Kojoyan As evaluators, we are often encouraged to collaborate early with projects and programmes, in order to establish baselines, for instance.
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Connecting data and research to policies to transform the agricultural sector: the EPA Forum
Posted on 30/03/2022 by Kisito Gandji, Carolle Ahodekon From 2 to 3 December 2021, the Evidences - Policies - Actions (EPA) Forum had its second edition, organised in a hybrid format under the theme...
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Adapting evaluations to the needs of decision-makers: the case of Benin
Posted on 24/02/2022 by Elias Akpé Kuassivi Segla Self-evaluation and internal evaluation. One of the lessons shared during the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) session on national evaluation...
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating: five lessons for developing national evaluation capacity
Posted on 31/01/2022 by Miguel Angel Lombardo Chico, Emmanuel M. DAVID-GNAHOUI Countries’ capacity to evaluate development programmes is key to supporting the real ownership of development outcomes and to strengthening the role...
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning: How can we maximize capacity?
Posted on 02/11/2021 by Anna Maria Augustyn Growing interest in MEL Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) has recently gained momentum in the context of agricultural innovation and...
Guidance Document
Impact assessment and evaluation tools
This handbook was developed by the EU LIASON Project Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks, and contains...
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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...
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How best to evaluate capacity development?
Posted on 24/05/2021 by Cornelia RietdorfBlog
Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar
Posted on 26/02/2021 by Binod ChapagainGuidance Document
Citizen's monitoring in forestry - Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Community Forest Groups
This toolbox, developed by RECOFTC (Restoring landscapes in Southeast Asia), is designed to support community forest groups monitor their baseline...
Book
Using Evidence in Policy and Practice – Lessons from Africa
This book, edited by Ian Goldman and Mine Pabari, explores how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and...
Report
M&E capacity-strengthening approaches and measurement in Africa
This research report by CLEAR provides an overview of National Evaluation Capacity Development (NECD) across selected Anglophone African countries and...
Discussion
How do we move forward on Evaluation Systems in the Agriculture Sector?
Posted on 29/10/2020 by Judith Katabarwa Dear EvalForward members, Agriculture is Rwanda's major economic sector. It accounts for 24 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and about 64%...
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...