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Fourth Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development
Evaluation conference
As part of its 20-year anniversary, the GEF Independent Evaluation Office is organizing its Fourth Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development from 18-19 October 2023 at World Bank offices in Washington D.C. with the theme: Integrating Environmental and Socioeconomic Domains Toward...
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Supporting Evaluation Capacity Development - Tips for Capacity-friendly evaluation in development agencies
Briefing note
This tip sheet from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) draws on Network experience in capacity development and joint evaluation to provide some basic “tips” to advise managers and evaluators in development agencies on how best to support evaluation capacity development...
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How to? Practical tips for supporting evaluation capacity and systems in partner countries
Briefing note
This brief has been prepared by the Development Evaluation Unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and published in March 2023. The purpose of this brief is to raise awareness on the topic and illustrate ways in which evaluations funded by the Ministry can strengthen local evaluation...
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Project/programme monitoring and evaluation (M&E) guide
Guidance Document
The purpose of this Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) guide, published in September 2021, is to promote a common understanding and reliable practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for the International Committee of the Red Cross (IFRC) project/programmes. Although the guide was designed for people...
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Will artificial intelligence replace us as evaluators?
Artificial intelligence: A threat or a game-changer? ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. It is a revolutionary technology with the ability to provide human-quality responses while interacting in conversational dialogue.[1] But let’s not focus on this particular tool; let’s talk about technology in...
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A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) monitoring and results management (MRM) or whatever you choose to call it (or them?), should help us learn from...
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“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning (MERL) monitoring and results management (MRM) or whatever you choose to call it (or them?), should help us learn...
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European Evaluation Society Conference 2024
Evaluation conference
The next EES #conference will be held in Rimini (Italy) from 23 to 27 September 2024.
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Evaluability Assessments in Austrian development cooperation
Guidance Document
Evaluability Assessments (EAs) aim at determining the overall quality of the design of an intervention, whether a programme, a project, a strategy, or a policy. They serve as a compass for subsequent evaluations by assessing readiness for evaluation. As such, they have the potential to both pave the...
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Evaluators are interpreters. What about ChatGPT?
Evaluators are interpreters. Conversations with real people, at the grassroots, happen in simple, everyday language. Evaluators translate them into the jargon used in development talks and reports (where people are “empowered”, “aware”, “mobilized”, “create platforms” or “demand their rights”), to...
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Proceedings from the 2022 National Evaluation Capacities Conference
Event Proceedings
The 2022 National Evaluation Capacities conference (Turin, October 2022) brought 300 participants together from over 100 countries to discuss ‘Resilient National Evaluation Systems for Sustainable Development’. The conference took stock of national evaluation capacities following the COVID-19...
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An empirically driven theory of poverty reduction
Technical Paper
This research project paper of CEDIL describes the use of secondary evaluation data from four government unconditional cash transfer programmes (UCTs) to identify high- and low-flyers, that is, those households that are able to use the income shock to significantly improve their living standards and...