Topics: Processus d'évaluation

From the EvalForward community
Neutrality, impartiality, independence: reflections on a recent discussion
I recently raised a topic for discussion, asking EvalForward members how they practised and experienced evaluator neutrality, impartiality and independence at different stages of the evaluation process.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Document technique
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 evaluation practice. Questions discussed include the following: the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate...
juillet112022until Juil 22
Training
Bern
IPDET 2022 ON-SITE PROGRAM
The proof of the pudding is in the eating: five lessons for developing national evaluation capacity
Countries’ capacity to evaluate development programmes is key to supporting the real ownership of development outcomes and to strengthening the role that evidence plays in decision-making.
Posté le
jan 28, 2022
Neutrality-impartiality-independence. At which stage of the evaluation is each concept important?
You are invited to share your view on the importance of neutrality, impartiality and independence of the evaluator.
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SDG evaluations: How to eat an elephant
Hi everyone! The FAO Office of Evaluation is currently assessing the Organization’s contribution to certain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These SDG evaluations are fashionable, but they are proving a little tricky.
Ouvrage
ÉVALUATION. Fondements, controverses, perspectives
Sous la direction de Thomas Delahais, Agathe Devaux-Spatarakis, Anne Revillard et Valéry Ridde, cet ouvrage en accès ouvert entend favoriser les échanges et contribuer à la consolidation d’un socle de références communes en évaluation. Nombre d'institutions publiques locales, nationales ou...
Document d’orientation
Guidance note on evaluation syntheses
This guidance note was developed by the Office of Evaluation (OED) of FAO to support the planning, formulation and conduct of evaluation syntheses. It provides definitions, a typology of synthesis which can be appropriate to conduct depending whether less or more time and resources are available. as...
Evaluation synthesis: an added boost to corporate learning
The primary aim of evaluation synthesis is to promote learning and collective reflection. A synthesis is a knowledge product and a means of consolidating and sharing acquired knowledge to strengthen evaluation feedback and learning loops.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Document d’orientation
Maximizing the Use of Evaluation Findings
This note by the Asian Development Bank summarizes the meanings of evaluation utilization and the factors influencing evaluation utilizations based on literature review. Adapted by John Scott Bayley, Evaluation Specialist, ADB, 2018.
From the EvalForward community
Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators
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, programme developers, project planners and managers.
Document technique
Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions - a case study of the GEF
This book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability and learning to inform its decision-making on programming priorities, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground. The book is based on real-life...
Posté le
Aoû 25, 2021
Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence
This discussion invites you to share methods, approaches, tools, and techniques that can be used to develop and present findings in ways that are useful for the intended users of the evaluation, and support them to make use of them.
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Ouvrage
Transformational evaluation for the global crises of our times
This book, the sixth following an IDEAS Global Assembly, smartly combines conceptual and methodological analyses of and proposals for transformational evaluation and its potential to contribute to transformative development, with a range of practical experiences and testimonies. Additionally, this...
Document d’orientation
2020 UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation
The UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation were first published in 2008. This document is a revision of the original document and was approved at the UNEG AGM 2020. These revised guidelines aim to support UN entity leaders and governing bodies as well as those organizing and conducting evaluations...
Document d’orientation
Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Evaluation – like development aid itself – can unintentionally exacerbate tensions in ways that can negatively affect people and institutions if care is not taken in designing and approaching it with caution and sensitivity. This practical guidance from global evaluation practitioners, released by...
The road ahead: Evaluators must promote learning for adaptive development processes
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 create a better world. The COVID-19 experience showed us the way forward.
From the EvalForward community
How best to evaluate capacity development?
From the EvalForward community
Understanding first: Why putting understanding before measurement matters
- Evaluation event
- Evaluation process
From the EvalForward community
How do you communicate difficult evaluation findings?
- Evaluation event
- Evaluation process
Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar
Behind the glossy cover: six reflections on communicating evaluations
Document d’orientation
Getting Evidence Quicker: the development of Rapid Evaluations in selected African Countries
This brief by Twende Mbele looks at Rapid Evaluations in the public sector of selected African Countries. Rapid evaluations are intended to reduce the costs of evaluation projects and the time they take, by producing a result that can feed into policy and practice quickly, but yet is sufficiently...
Evaluation in times of Covid-19
Making voices count - Gathering community feedback in times of remote evaluation
From the EvalForward community
EvalForward Talks - Remote evaluations during COVID-19: how can we cope and adapt? What are the best solutions?
Evaluation in times of Covid-19
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected evaluation design?
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on travel and face-to-face meetings have had a major impact on evaluation design.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Vidéo
Evaluation: les ficelles du métier
Dans cette vidéo, Olivier Cossée du Bureau de l’évaluation de la FAO, donne des conseils pratiques sur comment combiner approches qualitatives et quantitatives dans les études d’impact.
Evaluation questions the value of aid interventions. We need to keep warranting the value of evaluation.
As evaluators, do we know what value we bring? The question is not new, nurtured by the rise of the ‘post-truth politics” (KALPOKAS, 2019). Despite the many discussions on the relevance and utility of evaluations, this issue is not resolved and merits attention.
- Evaluation process
- Knowledge management and communication
Posté le
nov 23, 2020
External coherence of agriculture interventions
Lack of external coherence in agriculture projects can cause antagonism among interventions or implementation strategies and annihilate the results and progress achieved. This often leads to strategic behaviour (bias) on the part of beneficiaries.
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We are evaluating a moving picture
We interviewed Julia Betts, independent evaluation consultant, who is currently supporting WFP evaluation activities related to the response to COVID-19.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Document d’orientation
Engaging your audience. Creative communications for evaluation dissemination.
This interactive report has been produced to disseminate the findings of the study on evaluation dissemination at DG DEVCO, EU Delegations and non-EU organisations around the world such as the Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, World...
Document d’orientation
Evaluation in Hard-to-Reach Areas
This paper presents an overview of innovative technologies to overcome the obstacles to evaluation in fragile and conflict affected states and in hard-to reach-areas. It is based on lessons learned from a series of conferences held by the European Union DG DEVCO’s Evaluation Support Service in 2019...
octobre272020until oct 27
Webinar
Online
What’s new in developing evidence products to support decision-makers?
Posté le
oct 12, 2020
Rapid evaluation to measure the impact of the COVID pandemic in mountainous areas
How can we make rapid evaluations of the impact of COVID on communities in order to be able to be proactive and/or react in a timely manner?
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octobre132020until nov 3
Webinar
Online
EvalXchange - a festival of learning
septembre302020until déc 3
Training
Formation à distance
L'essentiel de l'évaluation
Evaluation in times of Covid-19
Will Covid-19 spark change in the conduct of evaluations?
In the third and final part of our interview with leaders and managers currently engaged in humanitarian-development evaluations, we asked how the conduct of evaluations was evolving as a result of Covid-19, and what opportunities it might now usher in? (see part 1 here and part 2 here).
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Evaluation in times of Covid-19
What challenges does Covid-19 present to independent and credible evaluations?
In the second of our three-part interview with leaders and managers currently engaged in humanitarian-development evaluations, we asked how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the practice of evaluation, and where to draw the Do No Harm line (see first part here).
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Posté le
Juil 16, 2020
Racism in the field of evaluation
Being in New York during the COVID pandemic and witnessing the recent Black Lives Movement rallies made me reflect more on racism. I find it comforting that EvalForward is a safe space where we can discuss ideas openly.
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Synthèse de l’évaluation
Lessons from Evaluations: Responding to Food Security during Covid 19
Under the framework of the Covid-19 Evaluation Coalition, Global Affairs Canada, FAO, IFAD, WFP and other agencies identified key lessons that should inform food security and nutrition interventions during covid-19. As a follow-up to this initiative, FAO, IFAD, UNIDO and WFP are launching a rapid...
Rapport
WFP Annual Evaluation Review 2019
The WFP Annual Evaluation Report 2019 highlights the evidence generated by centralized and decentralized evaluations carried out during the year. It also reveals the state of the evaluation function: in terms of evaluation coverage, quality, use, funding and partnerships. This year's report shows a...
Evaluation in times of Covid-19
How is the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on movement affecting the conduct of evaluations?
Launching a new series on Evaluation in times of Covid-19, this is the first of a three-part interview bringing together reflections from leaders and managers currently engaged in humanitarian-development evaluations on how the pandemic is affecting the practice of evaluation.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
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juin 17, 2020
Addressing disability inclusion through evaluations in agriculture and rural development
Despite the significant challenges faced by persons with disabilities living in rural areas, there is comparatively less experience in addressing disability inclusion through evaluations related to agriculture, rural development and food security.
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Can visual thinking facilitate evaluation? WFP’s innovative approach to validation workshops
Since the advent of the Internet, we have been living in a time of information explosion. As the amount of available data grows, managing all of that material becomes more difficult, which can lead to information overload.
Document d’orientation
Embedding Evaluation in Voluntary National Reviews in Africa: A Guide
This guide is a result of a partnership between UNICEF's Evaluation Office and CLEAR Anglophone Africa
mai112020until Aoû 7
Training
Online
EvalPartners e-Courses programme in Development Evaluation
Rapport
Measuring what matters in agriculture and food systems
A synthesis of the results and recommendations of TEEB for Agriculture and Food’s Scientific and Economic Foundations Report This report serves as a synthesis of the 2018 Scientific and Economic Foundations report and proposes a new and comprehensive Evaluation Framework in the field of agriculture...
Is SDG Evaluation just business as usual?
Yes, SDG Evaluation could be considered business as usual, if that’s how we see the SDGs. But can we really afford to treat evaluation of progress towards the SDGs like all evaluations that have gone before? The ambitions underlying Agenda 2030 make it clear that we cannot.
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Mar 26, 2020
How do we adapt our evaluation approach to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Evaluators may find themselves having to adapt their approach to the new reality of the COVID pandemic in the short- and medium-term. Please share your experience and suggestions on how to adapt evalaution approaches.
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Document d’orientation
Utilization Focused Evaluation. A primer for evaluators.
Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to their work. The focus is on intended users. UFE does not prescribe any specific content, method, or theory. It is a guiding framework, rather than a...
From the EvalForward community
How useful are theories of change in development programmes and projects?
In the past few years we have witnessed an increased application of theories of change (ToC) in the design and evaluation of development projects.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Document d’orientation
The road to results
This text, authored by Linda G. Morra Imas and Ray C. Rist, is intended as a tool for use in building development evaluation capacity. It aims to help development evaluators think about and explore the new evaluation architecture and especially to design and conduct evaluations that focus on results...
Document d’orientation
Evaluation to connect national priorities with the SDGs
Local and national evaluators need support if they are to use SDG evaluation as an opportunity to improve policies and programmes closer to home, applying tailored approaches. This guide aims to provide this support and motivate evaluation that embodies the principles of Agenda 2030. The guide is...
Document d’orientation
Revised OECD DAC evaluation criteria
The document "Better criteria for better evaluation" describes how the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) revisited the definitions and use of the OECD DAC evaluation criteria in 2018-2019. It lays out adapted definitions for relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and...
In evaluation, there is no substitute for good listening skills
We spoke to WFP evaluation team leader Nick Maunder about leadership challenges, engaging affected populations in evaluations and the personal rewards of working in the humanitarian-development sector.
- Evaluation process
Posté le
oct 31, 2019
Youth in agriculture: what lessons can we draw from evaluations?
For agriculture to grow and innovate we need young people to engage. However, the average age of agriculture workers is increasing. What can evaluation tell us on the rising age in agriculture work and on how to address this issue?
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Rapport
2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations
The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD is pleased to present the 2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI). The 2019 ARRI presents a synthesis of IFAD’s performance and highlights results and systemic issues from independent evaluations conducted in 2018. The...
octobre302019until oct 30
Webinar
Webinar
Webinar: Use of synthesis and meta-analysis in development evaluation
octobre282019until oct 28
Workshop
IFAD headquarters, Rome, Italy
Learning event: 2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations
Rapport
EVALUATION FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
Since 2015, the world has shown great enthusiasm for the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.However, after more than four years since the launch of the Agenda, there are at least two threatening challenges for sustainable development. This report not only looks at challenges ahead but also uses...
Evaluating Priority SDGs: Nigeria moving ahead
In Nigeria, we have begun evaluation of our progress towards achievement of specific Sustainable Development Goals on which our country has decided to focus.
Document d’orientation
OED Capacity Development Evaluation Framework
This document serves as guidance on how the FAO Office of Evaluation can assess the processes and outcomes of FAO capacity development interventions. Although primarily targeting evaluation practitioners in FAO, the framework can be used by anyone engaged in project design, implementation and...
septembre22019until Sep 13
Training
E-Learning
Evaluation and the 2030 Agenda
Posté le
Juil 26, 2019
Supporting smallhoder agriculture: what are your experiences in using evaluation?
Please share your views and examples on improving smallholder projects with evaluation.
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Document technique
Braking the Mould. Alternative approaches to monitoring and evaluation
This paper looks at a range of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) innovations that are designed specifically to provide input to ongoing iterative decision-making and learning at the project level. It identifies three key areas for potential innovation: 1) timing of M&E data provision; 2) flexibility...
Fail Better, Fail Forward – How learning organizations learn from their mistakes
The digital economy has revolutionized business models in a way that was inconceivable just a few years earlier.
- Evaluation process
Rapport
WFP Annual Evaluation Report 2018
WFP annual evaluation report explains the purpose of evaluation and how it is evolving in line with WFP’s strategic direction and trends in WFP’s operating environment, providing an overview of centralized and decentralized evaluations completed, conducted and planned in the period 2018 to 2019. In...
Document d’orientation
10 things to know about evaluation
This publication presents the essential 'things to know' about evaluation in 10 infographics. It was prepared by ODI's Research and Policy in Development Programme (RAPID) in support of the International Year of Evaluation 2015.
Why use facilitation in evaluation?
Soft skills are essential assets for every evaluator; we all know it. What we might not realize is how far soft skills can go in supporting the evaluation process increasing its effectiveness and ultimately enhancing the evaluation use.
From the EvalForward community
What can evaluation do in terms of capacity development?
The learning benefits of evaluations can go a long way in in developing capacities. EvalForward recently hosted a discussion on the connection between evaluation and capacity development.
Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings
When communicating with rural communities with their own dialect, WFP Colombia gets creative, with pens, paint and paper.
mai282019
Webinar
Online
Evaluation and Complexity in the SDGs era - Part 2
Ouvrage
Evaluation for Agenda 2030
Edited by the International Development Evaluation Association - IDEAS, this book presents an authoritative overview of the role of evaluation in generating evidence for informed decision making and learning to advance sustainable development. Agenda 2030 includes the Sustainable Development Goals...
septembre22019until Sep 13
Training
Johannesburg, South Africa
DEPTA - Development Evaluation Training Programme in Africa
Posté le
avr 24, 2019
What can evaluations do in terms of capacity development?
We are looking for practical examples of evaluations that helped developing capacities of evaluands and other actors, including beneficiaries. If you carried out participatory evaluations, did those lead to any clear development of capacities (even soft skills?) And did you evaluate the capacity
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From the EvalForward community
Is this really an output?
As an evaluator, I often face situations in which results, labelled as outputs in project documents, really represent changes in the lives of beneficiaries rather than deliverables under project control. Evaluation handbooks often use the latter definition of “output” and offer standard evaluation
- Evaluation process
mai62019until mai 10
Training
Istambul, Turkey
PRiME Impact Evaluation Course
Document d’orientation
Checklist for Evaluation Recommendations by Osvaldo Feinstein
The purpose of this checklist is to guide the process of formulating and delivering evaluation recommendations. It is oriented to evaluators conducting evaluations, but may also be used by commissioners and/or managers of evaluation to help them clarify their expectations concerning recommendations...
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Mar 5, 2019
Is this really an output? Addressing terminology differences between evaluators and project managers
Did you experience challenges due to differences in the use of terminology between people who planned the project and evaluators when doing evaluations? And if you did, how did you handle them?
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juillet152019until Aoû 2
Training
Bern, Switzerland
IPDET - International Program for Development Evaluation Training
février252019
Workshop
Manila, Philippines
The evaluation is for you. Increasing evaluation utilization and ownership through stakeholder engagement...
Who teaches and learns in an evaluation?
The article by Gadotti entitled the “Global Impact of Freire’s Pedagogy” is a good read.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Autre
Designing Robust M&E Systems: Blending in Tools and Approaches for Performance Management
This document was shared with EvalForward by Zahid Shabbir, M&E professional/trainer from Pakistan. It provides an overview of the key features of M&E systems.
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déc 19, 2018
What about stakeholders? Evaluation of social protection programs.
Have you ever been involved in the evaluation of social protection programs? What is the approach to assessing such programs? What are the key elements that any expert would be looking for in social protection activities/programs?
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Tenue d’événement
Revisiting independence, objectivity and the critically reflective role of evaluation for the SDG era
The Wilton Park event on Revisiting independence, objectivity, and the critically reflective role of evaluation for the SDG era took place from 25 to 27 June in West Sussex, UK. The purpose of this dialogue was to enable a high level, practical but informal debate, addressing conceptual and...
Tenue d’événement
People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era
The Independent Evaluation Office and the Government of Turkey co-hosted the 2017 International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) in Istanbul, in collaboration with the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS and the European Evaluation Society (EES). The theme of the conference was...
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nov 15, 2018
How to Measure the Impact of Monitoring and Evaluation Work
I am trying to think how best we can measure the impact of monitoring and evaluation work and would be grateful if you could share your experience and ideas with me. What is your take on how to measure the impact or changes that are informed by the monitoring and evaluation?
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From the EvalForward community
What are your evaluation challenges?
The latest discussion in the EvalForward CoP covered challenges that evaluations encounter in the agriculture, rural development and food security sectors and beyond. Here is a summary of the issues emerging and ways forward suggested.
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oct 15, 2018
Challenges of evaluation
What constraints do you encounter during the different evaluations of programs and interventions on rural development, agriculture and food security? How do you get around them? And which are the ones you cannot get around?
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oct 3, 2018
The issues facing global agriculture
What aspects should always be included in evaluation Terms of Reference of agriculture-based interventions?
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Aoû 22, 2018
Developmental evaluation
What is developmental evaluation and how does it differ from other program evaluation approaches?
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Topics: Processus d'évaluation

Neutrality, impartiality, independence: reflections on a recent discussion

What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners

IPDET 2022 ON-SITE PROGRAM

The proof of the pudding is in the eating: five lessons for developing national evaluation capacity

SDG evaluations: How to eat an elephant

ÉVALUATION. Fondements, controverses, perspectives

Guidance note on evaluation syntheses

Evaluation synthesis: an added boost to corporate learning

Maximizing the Use of Evaluation Findings

Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators

Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions - a case study of the GEF

Transformational evaluation for the global crises of our times

2020 UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation

Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence

The road ahead: Evaluators must promote learning for adaptive development processes

How best to evaluate capacity development?

Understanding first: Why putting understanding before measurement matters

How do you communicate difficult evaluation findings?

Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar

Behind the glossy cover: six reflections on communicating evaluations

Getting Evidence Quicker: the development of Rapid Evaluations in selected African Countries

Making voices count - Gathering community feedback in times of remote evaluation

EvalForward Talks - Remote evaluations during COVID-19: how can we cope and adapt? What are the best solutions?

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected evaluation design?

Evaluation: les ficelles du métier

Evaluation questions the value of aid interventions. We need to keep warranting the value of evaluation.

We are evaluating a moving picture

Engaging your audience. Creative communications for evaluation dissemination.

Evaluation in Hard-to-Reach Areas

What’s new in developing evidence products to support decision-makers?

EvalXchange - a festival of learning

L'essentiel de l'évaluation

Will Covid-19 spark change in the conduct of evaluations?

What challenges does Covid-19 present to independent and credible evaluations?

Lessons from Evaluations: Responding to Food Security during Covid 19

WFP Annual Evaluation Review 2019

How is the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on movement affecting the conduct of evaluations?

Can visual thinking facilitate evaluation? WFP’s innovative approach to validation workshops

Embedding Evaluation in Voluntary National Reviews in Africa: A Guide

EvalPartners e-Courses programme in Development Evaluation

Measuring what matters in agriculture and food systems

Is SDG Evaluation just business as usual?

Utilization Focused Evaluation. A primer for evaluators.

How useful are theories of change in development programmes and projects?

The road to results

Evaluation to connect national priorities with the SDGs

Revised OECD DAC evaluation criteria

In evaluation, there is no substitute for good listening skills

2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations

Webinar: Use of synthesis and meta-analysis in development evaluation

Learning event: 2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations

EVALUATION FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

Evaluating Priority SDGs: Nigeria moving ahead

OED Capacity Development Evaluation Framework

Evaluation and the 2030 Agenda

Braking the Mould. Alternative approaches to monitoring and evaluation

Fail Better, Fail Forward – How learning organizations learn from their mistakes

WFP Annual Evaluation Report 2018

10 things to know about evaluation

Why use facilitation in evaluation?

What can evaluation do in terms of capacity development?

Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings

Evaluation and Complexity in the SDGs era - Part 2

Evaluation for Agenda 2030

DEPTA - Development Evaluation Training Programme in Africa

Is this really an output?

PRiME Impact Evaluation Course

Checklist for Evaluation Recommendations by Osvaldo Feinstein

IPDET - International Program for Development Evaluation Training

The evaluation is for you. Increasing evaluation utilization and ownership through stakeholder engagement...

Who teaches and learns in an evaluation?

Designing Robust M&E Systems: Blending in Tools and Approaches for Performance Management

Revisiting independence, objectivity and the critically reflective role of evaluation for the SDG era

People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era

What are your evaluation challenges?