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WFP EvalXchange 2021
Evaluation conference
WFP EvalXchange is a series of virtual learning events organised by the Office of Evaluation of the United Nations World Food Programme. Connecting people and collecting experiences, EvalXchange is a place to learn, a time to share lessons to improve the practice and utility of evaluation in the...
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning: How can we maximize capacity?
MEL provides a helpful framework and tools to accompany the implementation of targeted interventions, with a view to improving agricultural sustainability. The MEL system fosters continuous evaluation and learning, which enables the adaptive management of transformational projects. It requires a...
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Regional Conference on Impact Evaluation in Francophone Africa
Evaluation conference
The regional conference: "Implementing development agendas in the light of current challenges: impact evaluation at the heart of decision making", aims to highlight the role and contributions of Impact Evaluation in the implementation of public policies in the context of the SDGs and the African...
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AEA Conference - EVAL21reimagined: a virtual experience
Evaluation conference
The American Evaluation Association conference theme for 2021 is AEA at 35: Meeting the Moment. 120 sessions, plenaries, networking opportunities, 1 to1 meetings, and more is planned for this year. For more information and to register: www.evaluationconference.org
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Guidance note on evaluation syntheses
Guidance Document
This guidance note was developed by the Office of Evaluation (OED) of FAO to support the planning, formulation and conduct of evaluation syntheses. It provides definitions, a typology of synthesis which can be appropriate to conduct depending whether less or more time and resources are available. as...
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14th EES Biennial Conference - Evaluation at a watershed: actions and shifting paradigms for challenging times
Evaluation conference
The European Evaluation Society (EES) 2022 Conference theme is: Evaluation at a watershed: actions and shifting paradigms for challenging times". The event invites evaluators, commissioners, and users from Europe and beyond to come together to design the contours of these necessary paradigmatic...
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Evaluation synthesis: an added boost to corporate learning
Synthesis is nothing new in the evaluation community, but the use of evaluation synthesis has been growing in recent years. This is due in part to the recognition that good evaluation synthesis can be a powerful means of extracting knowledge from individual evaluations – knowledge that is often...
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Impact assessment and evaluation tools
Guidance Document
This handbook was developed by the EU LIASON Project Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks, and contains 37 tools that can be used to evaluate/assess the impact of interactive innovation. The tools are practice-ready: each is explained in a procedural...
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Maximizing the Use of Evaluation Findings
Guidance Document
This note by the Asian Development Bank summarizes the meanings of evaluation utilization and the factors influencing evaluation utilizations based on literature review. Adapted by John Scott Bayley, Evaluation Specialist, ADB, 2018.
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Evidence for Development: What Works Global Summit 2021
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The virtual conference 'Evidence for Development: What Works Global Summit 2021,' from 18-27 October 2021, held by the Campbell Collaboration and the Global Development Network, takes up three challenges: to ensure that evidence for development is relevant, contextualized and transferable, that it...
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The role of Evaluation in achieving the SDGs
Webinar
This webinar is organized by the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA) in collaboration with Asia Pacific Communication Hub and will also be the launch of a new Guide on Evaluation and Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). Main speaker: Stefano D'Errico Date and time: 22 October at 5.30 pm India...
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Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators
From the EvalForward community
I recently used a survey of evaluators to explore the concept of evaluation use, how evaluation practitioners view it and how this translates into their work – in other words, how evaluators are reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence. Evaluation use and utilization: an outline Michael...