Before joining CGIAR, Ibtissem Jouini served as a Regional Evaluations Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, where she managed decentralized evaluations and designed capacity development activities within the FAO Office of Evaluation (OED). Prior to this role, she led multiple independent evaluations and studies. Her professional journey also includes substantial contributions to International Development Organizations and Foundations. In these positions, she operated either as M&E or Program Manager for various national, regional, and global projects. She actively participates in several evaluation associations. She leads the working group on the professionalization of evaluation at the Asociación Ibérica de Profesionales Evaluadores (APROEVAL), and she is a member of the European Evaluation Society (EES), and the MENA Evaluators Network (EvalMena).
My contributions
What type of evaluator are you?
DiscussionA common dilemma is striking a balance between team members who understand the technical subject and those who have expertise in evaluation methodologies and processes. In most evaluations, resources are scarce to hire big teams to cover all fields. Finding people who are experts in at least one discipline, have the right language skills and are skilled evaluators is challenging.
Here are some principles for creating a good working relationship between the roles of experts and evaluators in development evaluations based on my own experience as an evaluator, and on informal conversations with colleagues, notably in the last European Evaluation
Ibtissem Jouini
Senior Evaluation Manager CGIARA refreshing quiz, it looks like I am one of the activist kind of evaluators :-)