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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.
- Evaluation methods
- Evaluation process
Importance of leadership in Results-based management. Highlights on a recent e-Panel
In a recent e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, we explored the role of leadership in instilling a culture of Results-based management (RBM) in African agriculture based on evidenced experience.
- Agriculture
- Results based management
Struggling to prove the obvious – How can evaluations show that community-driven development works?
Community-driven development (CDD) emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources, operating on principles of transparency, participation, accountability and enhanced local capacity.
- Evaluation methods
- Rural development
Impact Evaluation in the humanitarian space
Cash-based transfers in crisis: Why more evidence is needed to support women in crisis, and what we’re doing about it
The increasing intensity of humanitarian crises and conflict across the globe has led to the highest level of displaced people in history.
- Emergency
- Impact evaluation
Evaluation in the age of big data: Opportunities and challenges in agriculture and food security
Most evaluations require adjusting methodology to real-world constraints, whether they be economic, technical, organizational, political, or related to time or data.
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.
From the EvalForward community
Young People in Agriculture – What lessons can we draw from evaluations?
Youth are becoming increasingly disconnected from the agriculture sector, despite the evidence that there have been some efforts over the years to boost the engagement of young people in agriculture.
- Agriculture
- Rural development
Evaluation for sustainability and change: the 8th EvalMENA Conference looks forward
Public officers, professional evaluators and evaluations users and managers gathered on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea to discuss and advocate for the sustainability of development initiatives and for change.
- Evaluation event
Can technology connect the dots for development evaluation?
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a part of everyone's daily landscape. We are all drowning in data.
- Information and Communication Technologies
Evaluation practice in Africa: key trends in the landscape
Evaluation trends and dynamics have an influence on our work as evaluators. But what exactly are those dynamics?
- Monitoring & Evalution
- National Evaluation Capacities
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
Measuring resilience-building in Karamoja, Uganda
I was recently involved in a mid-term evaluation of a multi-agency 2016-2020 programming to enhance resilience in Karamoja, the least-developed region of Uganda.