Topics: National Evaluation Capacities

Blog

Reflections on Evaluating Disaster Risk Reduction Programs from a Girl-Centered Lens.

Posted on 28/04/2025 by Chido Nyaruwata

Introduction Flames and Lilies Climate Initiative, a Zimbabwean eco-feminist youth organization, works at the intersection of climate justice and...

Discussion

Maximizing the impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in a changing aid architecture through evaluation.

Posted on 24/04/2025 by Carlos Tarazona

Purpose: To foster a dialogue among evaluators and development practitioners on how to effectively evaluate South-South and Triangular Cooperation...

Blog

The Effectiveness of Multi-stakeholder Platforms Towards Building of a Knowledge Delivery Infrastructure: Lessons from TAAT Implementation Framework

Posted on 12/12/2024 by Rachel Zozo, Atayi Ezekiel Opaluwah

The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is a unique initiative funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to overcome...

Blog

Your Voice Matters: Shaping the Future of EvalForward!Mini Survey Results.

Posted on 29/11/2024 by Chamisa Innocent

To all members of the EvalForward Community of Practice who took the time to complete our recent mini survey, thank you!

Other

Toolkit for monitoring, evaluation, and learning for National Adaptation Plan processes. NAP Global Network & Adaptation Committee

Issued on 2024 by NAP Global Network & Adaptation Committee. International Institute for Sustainable Development.

This toolkit uses the framing of NAP processes to refer to the umbrella of all national adaptation planning processes. This includes the process to...

Report

National monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for adaptation: A comparative analysis of nine countries.

Issued on 2024 by International Institute for Sustainable Development.

The need for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems that can help countries understand how to best adapt to climate change has become...

Technical Paper

MONITORING & EVALUATION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION A summary of key challenges and emerging practice

Issued by UNEP DTU Partnership Working Papers series

This working paper is an outcome of the Climate Resilient Development (CRD) Programme. The programme supports the design, development and...

Guidance Document

Diagnostic tool for a monitoring and evaluation systems analysis (MESA) - Guidance Note

Issued on 2022 by The Global Evaluation Initiative

The Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Analysis (MESA) tool is an important part of GEI’s integrated systems-based approach to supporting developing...

Guidance Document

Guideline on Impact Evaluation

Issued on 2024 by The Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME)-SA.

The guideline was revised with the aim of providing an overview for government staff undertaking and managing evaluations. The guideline is broad and...

Blog

Responsive Evaluation: A joint reflection from Rome-based agencies on the 2024 National Evaluation Capacities Conference held in Beijing, PRC

Posted on 14/11/2024 by Serdar Bayryyev, Guido Quiroga

The landscape of governance and development is ever-evolving, necessitating robust mechanisms for evaluation to ensure that programs and policies are...

Book

Monitoring systems in Africa

Issued on 2023 by African Sun Media

This volume presents a holistic approach to monitoring systems, with a range of purposes that monitoring practices serve, followed by a selection of...

Technical Paper

VNRs and SDG Evaluations in Anglophone Africa and Latin America: A Mapping of Common Challenges and Emerging Good Practices

Issued on 2022

This discussion paper, co-produced by DEval, CLEAR-AA and CLEAR-LAC, assesses the extent of use of evaluative evidence by governments when compiling...

Discussion

How are we progressing in SDG evaluation?

Posted on 17/01/2024 by Emilia Bretan

Dear members, Over the years, the evaluation community has been discussing the pivotal role that evaluation plays towards achieving the Sustainable...

Event

How and why do Communities of Practice for Evaluators deliver? The case of EvalForward

online , Jun 1, 2023

EvalForward is a Community of Practice on Evaluation for Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Development launched in 2018 by the evaluation offices...

Report

A study on the status of M&E practices on SDGs in selected countries in the Asia Pacific Region

This study was initiated by the Using Evaluation to Report on the SDGs Thematic Group primarily to determine the status of M&E practices for SDG...

Report

Independent Review of EvalForward Community of Practice

EvalForward was developed with the purpose to Improve national capacities in conducting or using evaluations related to agriculture, rural development...

Other

UNGA Resolution: Strengthening Voluntary National Reviews through Country-led Evaluation

The United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Strengthening Voluntary National Reviews through Country-led Evaluation was adopted during the 69 th...

Briefing note

Supporting Evaluation Capacity Development - Tips for Capacity-friendly evaluation in development agencies

This tip sheet from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) draws on Network experience in capacity development and joint...

Briefing note

How to? Practical tips for supporting evaluation capacity and systems in partner countries

This brief has been prepared by the Development Evaluation Unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and published in March 2023. The...

Event Proceedings

Proceedings from the 2022 National Evaluation Capacities Conference

The 2022 National Evaluation Capacities conference (Turin, October 2022) brought 300 participants together from over 100 countries to discuss...

Technical Paper

Strengthening and measuring monitoring and evaluation capacity in selected African programmes

This article aims to improve the effectiveness and impact of these capacity strengthening initiatives across Africa. The study adopted a qualitative...