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Feminist evaluation in crisis contexts: introducing a practical toolkit for evaluators

by Rai Sengupta | May 21, 2026 | Blog

Yulye Jessica Romo Ramos (Co-lead of the EES’ thematic working group 1: “Equity & Gender” and Director of Nexus Evaluation) organised and moderated a webinar with Rai Sengupta (Evaluation Consultant, UNICEF Evaluation Office and recipient of the Global Evaluation...

Evaluation’s contributions to vibrant democracy: Meeting challenges, delivering results

by Peter van der Knaap, PhD | May 19, 2026 | Blog

The theme of the 16th EES conference is ‘Evaluation for Vibrant Democracies’. Given the record number (!) of submissions to contribute to the congress with sessions and presentations, this theme clearly struck a chord in the European evaluation community… Which...

From practice to profession: Reflections on evaluation culture building

by Dea Tsartsidze | May 14, 2026 | Blog

There is a particular disorientation that comes from leaving your own context, your city, your colleagues, your familiar debates, and walking into a room full of people doing the same work, just somewhere else entirely. I experienced it twice in 2025. In May, at the...

Additionality: MDB Licence to Operate – and Licence to Be Trusted Through Evidence

by Natalia Kryg | Apr 27, 2026 | Blog, Institutional Members' Blogs

At the recent EBRD Evaluation Week 2026, the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) panel on “Enhancing MDBs’ Additionality for stronger private sector resilience” returned to a familiar concept – additionality – but from a more demanding angle.1 The...

When one method is not enough: What the OMLC Learning Lab taught us about Bricolage

by Dea Tsartsidze | Mar 17, 2026 | Blog

In this blog, Dea Tsartsidze and Richard Smith share personal highlights – as a participant and organizer, respectively – from the 2025 Learning Lab organised by the Outcome Mapping Learning Community (OMLC) and partners on the theme Enhancing participatory,...

Front-End Discernment in Evaluation Practice

by Jacqueline Singh | Feb 27, 2026 | Blog

Evaluation increasingly takes place in complex, multi-layered contexts where programs, policies, and systems overlap, and where meaning is rarely stable or shared at the outset. In such settings, evaluators are often asked to move quickly—toward designs, indicators,...

Spain’s evaluation awakening: a decisive momentum from quiet reform to national movement

by Maria Pomes-Jimenez | Feb 5, 2026 | Blog

Just a few years ago, evaluation in Spain felt like a niche concern—important, yes, but far from mainstream. When Law 27/2022 was passed, creating a legal framework for public policy evaluation, it seemed like a pivotal step forward (at the time, Cristina Cribillers...

Rethinking Evaluation Through a Feminist and Equity Lens

by Jessica Romo Ramos | Jan 22, 2026 | Blog

Reflections from the European Evaluation Society’s Thematic Working Group (TWG) 1 – Gender & Equity – webinar. By Nur Hidayati (Senior Advisor in Feminist & Participatory MEL, SRHR & Gender Equality), Susan Bergson (Lead Consultant, Impact...

Remembering Thomas A. Schwandt

by Sharon Scotcher | Jan 13, 2026 | Blog

This week, we received the sad news that Thomas A. Schwandt passed away during the Christmas period. Tom was a huge contributor to and supporter of the European Evaluation Society. His keynote speech in Thessaloniki on Post Normal Evaluation was hugely influential and...

An Interview with EES New President, Peter van der Knaap

by Hayat Askar | Jan 9, 2026 | Interviews

This month we welcome our new EES President, Peter van der Knaap, who has taken over the gavel from May Pettigrew. Peter has been active on the EES board for two years, has over 35 years of evaluation experience and chaired the Dutch Evaluation Society ‘Vide’ from...