Sharon Scotcher, Author at EES

What we were reading in October: Refugees, Resilience, Diversification, COP27 and M&E in Africa

by Sharon Scotcher | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog

Getting the balance right in the refugee humanitarian-development nexus | Itad Refugee policy has featured prominently in evaluation of international development policy for decades. By most accounts, the issue will only increase in urgency as the climate crisis...

What we read in September : Ethical standards, Bayesian Updating and Reviewing Theories of Change

by Sharon Scotcher | Oct 3, 2022 | Blog

Standards of care in policy research | 3ie It hardly needs restating that ethical structures have come to occupy a central place in evaluation. The Belmont Principles and their descendants have proven to be among the core motivating forces for M&E research. The...

Make sure you receive your monthly EES Newsletter

by Sharon Scotcher | Sep 13, 2022 | Blog

We have noticed that a number of members are not currently opted-in within their EES Membership Profile to receive our monthly newsletter EuropEval Digest. Going forward, we will only be sending the newsletter to those who have explicitly opted-in to receiving it, to...

What we read in August: Covid’s Long Shadow, Private Sector Projects and Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Policy

by Sharon Scotcher | Sep 2, 2022 | Blog

Mitigating global learning losses: lessons from the pandemic | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab For several years, one of the most heated debates in evaluation has been over the question of educational M&E. Previously, policy had clearly aligned around...

Getting it on(line): Insights into how we learn about digital social and behaviour change communication

by Sharon Scotcher | Aug 19, 2022 | Blog

By Linda Raftree[1], Nicola Harford[2] and Anastasia Mirzoyants[3] As COVID-19 arrived to disrupt the globe, Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) practitioners and their audiences, especially youth, increasingly embraced digital spaces and tools. Over the...