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.
Do school feeding and education play a role in keeping girls safe?
When schools were closed during a five-month period of lockdown in Kenya this year, almost 4,000 schoolgirls became pregnant in one county alone.
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.
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.
Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture
Innovations are key to improve the effectiveness of agri-food systems and better meet the rising demand for food worldwide. In particular, they are essential to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets.
Evaluating business innovations in agriculture-based social enterprises
Innovation is not about technology alone. Innovation is about the process of using ideas (novel or otherwise) in new ways and combinations, for economic, social and/or environmental gain.
Impact Evaluation in the humanitarian spaceResilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence
In 2019, the world recorded 135 million "acutely food-insecure people in crisis or worse". More than three quarters of them lived in countries affected by conflict or extreme weather events.
Evaluation in times of Covid-19How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel
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 their experiences from Cameroon, Rwanda and Kenya respectively.
Evaluation in times of Covid-19Will 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 in times of Covid-19What 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).
Global development indicators are not just numbers
On July 13th, the 2020 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World was presented by its authors - FAO, IFAD, WHO, WFP and UNICEF - at the UN High-Level Policy Forum on Sustainable Development in New York.
Evaluation in times of Covid-19How 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.