Topics: Monitoring & Evaluation

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

Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar

Posted on 26/02/2021 by Binod Chapagain

Guidance 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...

Event

EvalXchange - a festival of learning

Online, Oct 13, 2020 - Nov 3, 2020

EvalXchange is a new series of virtual learning events organized by the Office of Evaluation of the World Food Programme which will run every Tuesday...

Blog

How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel

Posted on 21/09/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA

An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana and Tim Njagi, shared...

Guidance Document

A guide: integrating communication in evaluation

The guide explains how to use communication to support evaluation, It is structured around three broad phases of the evaluation process: before...

Discussion

How to use Knowledge Management to strengthen the impact of Evaluation on smallholder agriculture development?

Posted on 15/09/2020 by Paul Mendy

Dear EvalForwad members, Knowledge management and evaluation are inter-related practices that actually feed into each other. At the Nema Chosso...

Brief

Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector

Issued on 2020 by FAO

The Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector carried out by the Office of Evaluation of FAO with EvalForward aimed at...

Webinar

Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19

AVANTI and EvalForward organized an e-Panel to discuss challenges and explore solutions to data quality production in the agriculture sector in the...

Event

Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19

online, Jul 21, 2020

AVANTI and EvalForward will host an e-Panel discussion on “Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19” on Tuesday 21 July...

Discussion

How can evaluation help improve data quality and policies on food security during Covid-19 pandemic?

Posted on 18/05/2020 by Tim Njagi

There has been a huge constraint in collecting data due to Covid-19 pandemic: depending on countries situation, data on food production, prices, trade...

Webinar

e-Panel on Leadership and RBM in the African Agricultural Sector

This e-Panel was held on 6 May 2020 by AVANTI and EvalForward. Experts from Benin, Ghana and South Africa discussed on the importance of leadership...

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...

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...

Guidance Document

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – Concepts, principles and tools

This guide serves as a resource for national facilitators, for project stakeholders and for other capacity development and monitoring experts to...

Discussion

The farmer as a key participant of M&E: lessons and experiences from Participatory M&E systems

Posted on 02/03/2020 by Emma Gausi

Dear members, It is often bemoaned that Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) is “top-down”, donor-driven and overlooks the views and needs of the farmers who...