Guidance Document Embedding Evaluation in Voluntary National Reviews in Africa: A Guide This guide is a result of a partnership between UNICEF's Evaluation Office and CLEAR Anglophone Africa
Webinar e-Panel on Leadership and RBM in the African Agricultural Sector This e-Panel was held on 6 May 2020 by AVANTI and EvalForward. Experts from Benin, Ghana and South Africa discussed on the importance of leadership and results-based management (RBM) in the African agricultural sector. Among factors mentioned that appear to be crucial for building a culture of...
Report Measuring what matters in agriculture and food systems A synthesis of the results and recommendations of TEEB for Agriculture and Food’s Scientific and Economic Foundations Report This report serves as a synthesis of the 2018 Scientific and Economic Foundations report and proposes a new and comprehensive Evaluation Framework in the field of agriculture...
Guidance Document Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors This Guidance Note focuses on how to design a national Monitoring & Evaluation system for tracking adaptation action, policies and plans in agriculture and on how to report at international, national and sectoral level. The Guidelines have been developed by the Integrating Agriculture in National...
Report Integrating Big Data into the Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes This report published by the UN Global Pulse provides guidelines for evaluators, evaluation and programme managers, policy makers and funding agencies on how to take advantage of the rapidly emerging field of big data in the design and implementation of systems for monitoring and evaluating...
Report Measuring results and impacts in the age of Big Data: the Nexus of Evaluation, Analytics, and Digital Technology In this report published by the Rockfeller Foundation, Peter York, Michael Bamberger and Veronica OlazabaI take an in-depth look at how new information technologies will dramatically impact how we track progress and assess impact of programs and policies. With the rapid expansion of big data and...
Technical Paper The impact of impact evaluation Are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middleincome countries? The authors of the present paper researched international organizations and countries including Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Uganda, and Philippines to understand...
Guidance Document Utilization Focused Evaluation. A primer for evaluators. Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to their work. The focus is on intended users. UFE does not prescribe any specific content, method, or theory. It is a guiding framework, rather than a...
Video Videos on evaluation methods In these short videos Dr Bassirou Chitou, M&E Expert and international instructor at the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), illustrates different methodological aspects in evaluation, and specifically: "Purposeful versus probabilty sampling in evaluation", "Sampling...
Guidance Document Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – Concepts, principles and tools This guide serves as a resource for national facilitators, for project stakeholders and for other capacity development and monitoring experts to implement a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system and to be able to track the main outcomes (behavioural changes) resulting from the project. It...
Webinar The new OECD DAC evaluation criteria: what changes for agriculture and food security? This webinar was held on 12 February 2020 and presented the revised OECD DAC Criteria to interested members of the EvalForward Community of Practice with examples on their contextualization in the agriculture / food security sector.
Guidance Document The road to results This text, authored by Linda G. Morra Imas and Ray C. Rist, is intended as a tool for use in building development evaluation capacity. It aims to help development evaluators think about and explore the new evaluation architecture and especially to design and conduct evaluations that focus on results...
Guidance Document Evaluation to connect national priorities with the SDGs Local and national evaluators need support if they are to use SDG evaluation as an opportunity to improve policies and programmes closer to home, applying tailored approaches. This guide aims to provide this support and motivate evaluation that embodies the principles of Agenda 2030. The guide is...
Guidance Document Learning from What We Know Despite the huge growth in volume of evaluations published by humanitarian actors, the evaluation system still struggles to provide evidence about collective performance of the humanitarian sector. Evaluation synthesis provides one option for building information about response-wide performance...