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This book aims to help you improve the utilization of evaluation through a method called “EvaluVision”, a combination of Evaluation and Visualization. Through visual thinking, EvaluVision encourages engagement from various level, management, programme, implementing partners, national and subnational...

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...

This paper presents 9 critical lessons to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment and transform our food systems, drawing from 47 independent evaluations recently carried out by FAO, IFAD, WFP and the CGIAR. This publication is a contribution by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and...

Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all The SOFI 2021 report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further...

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...

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...

This Synthesis Working Paper is a report on the first of its kind country evaluation map for a single country. The map identifies 617 evaluations in multiple sectors in Uganda. Nearly 60 per cent of the studies contain process evaluation evidence and over 40 per cent are impact evaluations. This...

Cette publication présente les bonnes pratiques et les pratiques prometteuses en matière d'approches et de méthodes d'évaluation sensibles au genre en présentant des évaluations sensibles au genre d'ONU Femmes et d'autres entités de l'ONU. En mettant l'accent sur l'inclusion, la participation et la...

This briefing note highlights the main findings of the Evidence Summary on COVID-19 and Food Security published by UNEG and carried out by the evaluation offices of FAO, WFP, IFAD and UNIDO. Prepared by EvalForward as a background for the gLOCAL event: “Building forward better on food security...

This brief describes the commonalities and differences of Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting. It presents the main concepts shared by the approaches, how they differ and what to consider when deciding which approach to use or whether to use them together. This brief was co-produced by the...

This Methods Brief by the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) takes a step-by-step, practical approach to guide researchers designing impact evaluations based on big data. The amount of big data available has exploded with recent innovations in satellites, sensors...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has established common definitions for six evaluation criteria – relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability – to support consistent, high-quality evaluation. These criteria provide a normative framework...