This guide is meant for facilitators of capacity development and organizational learning. This includes professionals from various fields including evaluation, communication, organizational learning, adaptive management, and strategic planning. Shared are stories from five case studies completed...

Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the landscape of program evaluation will be redefined by artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies. In an era where digital technologies...

This UNFPA Strategy aims at leveraging the benefits of responsible and ethical generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) while minimizing risks: it draws on the assessment of GenAI use cases in evaluation, and presents an implementation plan for GenAI-powered evaluation. It emphasizes a phased...

This paper was prepared by the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank for international development specialists, with both evaluation professionals and nutrition sector practitioners in mind. It presents the methodology and results used to pilot and test the applicability, usefulness, and...

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...

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...

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...