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Dia-blogging: New opportunities – Evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

by editor editor | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog

Riitta Oksanen is the President of the EES. She works as a senior advisor at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Evaluation Unit. In this post Riitta diablogues with André Martinuzzi who is founding director of the Institute for Managing...

Triangulating: Can evaluation add value to market-oriented development?

by editor editor | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog

Riitta Oksanen is the President of EES. She works as a senior advisor at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Evaluation Unit. In this post Riitta triangulates with Fredrik Korfker former Chief Evaluator of the EBRD and now active as development...

The EES Professionalization Agenda: Myths and Realities

by editor editor | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog

There is no ‘immaculate conception’ in the birth of a profession. Professionalization is driven by the collective exertions of a cohesive occupational group competing in the public arena. Thus, medicine triumphed over homeopathy. Psychiatry took over the terrain of...

More issues for the Global Agenda 2016-2020

by editor editor | Aug 20, 2015 | Blog

The consultative process carried out by EvalPartners aims to identify key priorities for evaluation for a Global Agenda geared to achieving progress towards a more equitable world. Strong support has been voiced for evaluation independence, quality, capacity building...

How to Foster Sustainability

by editor editor | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog

How to Foster Sustainability I feel myself standing in the village, the white trucks have just left. Space and time telescope for a minute and I am her. I am that woman, Aminata, in a village in central Mali, living from millet and goat milk, walking two hours for...