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Transforming Evaluation – Introducing the EES Webinar Series

by Tom Ling | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog

Authors: Tom Ling, May Pettigrew and Lauren Weiss In such turbulent times of baffling crises, contradiction and uncertainty, we – as an evaluation community – should come together, debate and agree on new ways of doing our professional work to better respond to...

Meeting challenges in evaluating crisis response

by John Goossen | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog

The monumental challenge posed by the Greek debt crisis required financial assistance on an almost unprecedented scale. John Goossen and Kari Korhonen, as members of the team that have produced a landmark independent evaluation of that financial support, argue that...

What Elinor Ostrom Teaches Us About Avoiding the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ in Delivering the Public Interest in the Post COVID-19 World

by Tom Ling | Jun 18, 2020 | Blog

The public interest can be an elusive concept, especially when we are trying to distinguish between shared and individual interests. This problem has been brought into sharper focus as we attempt to find the right path to a post COVID-19 world. On the one hand, most...

EES Proudly Supports the Eval4Action Campaign and Joins as an Official Partner

by Marco Segone | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog

Authors: Marco Segone, Director of the Evaluation Office, UNFPA, Khalil Bitar, Chair of Eval Youth, and Lauren Weiss and Gregory McGann from EES In September 2019, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all sectors of society to...

Join Eval4Action, a new campaign aligned to the Decade of Action

by evapetrova | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog

Join Eval4Action Accelerating the delivery of SDGs by advocating for stronger evaluation capacities and evidence-based policies through a globally coordinated campaign Go to eval4action.org | #Eval4Action The Decade of EVALUATION for action, also the Eval4Action...

Judging the Progress of Rigorous Evaluation in Practice with DEval

by spravceobsahu | Mar 1, 2020 | Blog

The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) is mandated to conduct strategic evaluations aiming to improve the performance of German development cooperation and thereby support sustainable development in Germany’s partner countries. Martin Bruder, head of...

Kenya’s Parliamentarians moving forward evidence use for gender responsive and equity focus Policy Making

by editor editor | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog

(Eddah Kanini) Introduction of the Project In February 2019, Evaluation actors in Kenya from the African Gender and Evaluation Network (AGDEN) and International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), won a competitive award for innovation challenge by The...

Rising Impact Investment and the Need for Harmonization of Measurements

by editor editor | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog

Despite making great strides in terms of broadening its appeal and implementing its ideas, impact investment is constrained by the lack of a common language to measure its successes and overcome its obstacles, argues Reagan Ronald Ojok, Senior Monitoring and...

NEC Conference 2019 – How can a new generation of evaluators transform evaluation?

by editor editor | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog

Tags: evaluation; young evaluators; youth;emerging National Evaluation Capacities Conference 2019 – “Leaving no one behind: Evaluation for 2030” Session 14 – How can a new generation of evaluators transform evaluation? Moderator: Mariana Branco...

Alena Lappo (2019). Sampling of country case studies using QCA approach

by Alena Lappo | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog

Applying QCA to sampling? Pros and Cons. How often have you been presented with the challenge of sampling? As a true evaluator, you know that sampling is an important factor in an evaluation’s design, which greatly determines the accuracy of the analysis and...