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What we’re reading in March

by Sharon Scotcher | Apr 7, 2022 | Blog

What we’re reading in March: Remembering the Learning part of MEL, Machine Learning in GIS and Evaluating Family Planning in Egypt By Greg McGann, EES Blog Editor Learning at the speed of trust: building monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity | itad Few...

Advocacy evaluation: measuring policy influence

by Francesco Bolzonella | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog

Influencing government decisions is an important component of policy change in most political systems. Advocates of structural change must convince policymakers of the worthiness of the changes advocated for. Most advocacy organizations face growing pressure to...

Gender and Evaluation: Are we walking the talk?

by Karin Kohlweg | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog

Last year, our blog called “Let’s increase efforts to mainstream gender in evaluations!” presented five recommendations to ensure gender is mainstreamed in evaluations. The main takeaways from last year’s blog are: Make gender analysis a...

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...

International Migrants Day: Climate Migrants are on the Rise By Daria Blinova, yEES! member

by Daria Blinova | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog

History shows that humanity has always been on the move. However, climate change and environmental degradation affect almost every aspect of our life more and more. This, in turn, induces human mobility: people have to migrate from their homes to unknown destinations...

Evaluating the work of multilateral organizations’ response to COVID-19: emerging lessons and good practices from FAO’s early response

by Carlos Tarazona | Dec 3, 2021 | Blog

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme (RRP) in July of 2020 with the aim of enhancing its coordination in response to the crisis and its related resource mobilization. Conceived as an...

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...