Relevance of Independent Evaluations in IFIs: fact or fiction?
Raghavan Narayanan, Senior Evaluation Officer, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, World Bank and Tom Ling Head of Evaluation at RAND Europe and President of the European Evaluation Society. The views expressed in this blog are the personal views of the...Can we please stop using useless terms like “wicked problems”?!
by Chris Ross | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog
This is just one of the recurring themes Dr. Ralph Renger addresses in his new release, System Evaluation Theory: A blueprint for practitioners evaluating complex interventions operating and functioning as systems. “The focus in evaluation on wicked problems is...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...There is Value in Casting Project Schedules as Logic Models
by Jonny Morell | Oct 19, 2022 | Blog
Program schedules can be used as evaluation logic models. Making this linkage provides two benefits. One is a stronger connection between program managers and evaluators. Do a thought experiment: how many program managers would be upset if the evaluation logic model...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...Instrumental Application of Complexity Science to Evaluation
by Jonny Morell | Sep 15, 2022 | Blog
My professional interest is to bridge the disciplinary boundary between Evaluation and Complexity Science. In this effort I am not alone (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The bridge is important because programs and outcomes exhibit complex behavior. Without appreciating this reality,...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...From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the ground
by Barbara Schmidt-Abbey | Aug 30, 2022 | Blog
Barbara Schmidt-Abbey (Open University) Joan O’Donnell (Maynooth University) Kirsten Bording Collins (Adaptive Purpose) Introduction The title of the 14th European Evaluation Society’s Biennial conference in Copenhagen in June 2022 posited that evaluation finds...Calendar
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