Sharon Scotcher, Author at EES

What did we read in February: Evaluating the UN response to COVID-19, Connecting Evaluation and Policy, Universal Basic Income and Behavioural Change

by Sharon Scotcher | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog

Inception Report: System-Wide Evaluation of the UNDS Response to COVID-19 | UNSDG As the world dares to hope that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, there is a limited appetite to re-live its horrors through a thorough accounting of institutional...

Statement from the EES President on the situation in Ukraine

by Sharon Scotcher | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog

As President of the European Evaluation Society (EES), I strongly endorse the Official appeal of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association to all evaluation communities and share their denunciation of the Russian government’s attack on sovereign Ukrainian territory...

What we’re reading in January: Innovation, Institutions, Forced Migration and Miscommunication

by Sharon Scotcher | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog

Evaluation and Innovation in a complex world | by UNDP Innovation | Dec, 2021 | Medium This blog by Oscar Garcia, Director of UNDP’s Independent Evaluation Office, was published at the close of last year but is a good look at the innovations, opportunities and...

What we’re reading in December: 2021 Nobel Laureates, Systems Change and Mainstreaming Environmental and Social concerns

by Sharon Scotcher | Jan 5, 2022 | Blog

Where next in the quest for better evidence — after this year’s picks for the Nobel Prize in Economics https://www.3ieimpact.org/blogs/where-next-quest-better-evidence-after-years-picks-nobel-prize-economics The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded jointly...

What we’re reading in November: Evaluating Climate policy after COP26

by Sharon Scotcher | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog

How evidence from randomized evaluations can inform climate finance at COP26 https://www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/11-8-21/how-evidence-randomized-evaluations-can-inform-climate-finance-cop26 By the time of COP26, something of a consensus had emerged that the...