What kind of evaluator are you? Exploring different evaluator paradigms This blog explores the different paradigms evaluators may have and questions how these paradigms interplay with evaluators’ backgrounds and influence their practices.
Will artificial intelligence replace us as evaluators? Technological progress can make jobs obsolete, will evaluators follow suit? Artificial Intelligence Evaluation methods Evaluation process Information and Communication Technologies
“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects There is an apparent irony in the fact that systems supposedly designed to help us learn from experience have been so reluctant to learn from their own experience. Agriculture Monitoring & Evaluation
Evaluators are interpreters. What about ChatGPT? Is Artificial Intelligence smart enough to make our evaluation work easier, and how far we can go with using it? Artificial Intelligence Evaluation methods Evaluation process Information and Communication Technologies
Monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture and rural development sectors ‒ reflections on the NEC Conference Agriculture Evaluation event National Evaluation Capacities
Three lessons from an SDG evaluation: doing away with tunnel vision FAO Office of Evaluation is currently concluding its evaluation of FAO’s contribution to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, “ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. Evaluation methods Evaluation process SDGs
Complexity and simplicity in Theory of Change reviews The Theory of Change (ToC) has emerged as an important instrument in many evaluations of projects and programmatic interventions. Evaluation methods Results based management
The skeptical turn in evaluation (and what to do with it) Impressions on the keynote speech by Estelle Raimondo and Peter Dahler-Larsen at the EES Conference, 10 June 2022 Evaluation event
Principles for a healthy relationship between evaluators and experts Evaluations led by international development agencies need a combination of different types of expertise. Evaluation process
Innovating in monitoring and evaluation to better respond to the needs of decision-makers at national level Facing new challenges in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requires innovation. Monitoring & Evaluation National Evaluation Capacities
A look back at EvalMENA 2022: Evaluation and new ways of working in the post-Covid-19 era The ninth annual EvalMENA conference was held in Beirut from 7 to 9 May, under the banner of The future of evaluation in the MENA region in times of change. Evaluation event
Emerging evaluator programme shows that sustainable capacity development initiatives are possible Capacity Development Monitoring & Evaluation National Evaluation Capacities