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What we were reading in July: Evaluator Paradigms, a Healthcare toolkit, Democracy and Resource Mobilization

by Sharon Scotcher | Aug 16, 2023 | Blog

What kind of evaluator are you? Exploring different evaluator paradigms | Eval Forward This blog explores the concept of “evaluator paradigms” and how different belief sets may influence an evaluator’s approach. Although inevitably generalising, any...

What we were reading in June: Humanitarian Policy, Food Security, AIDA, Taxes and Developing Economies

by Lea Corsetti | Jun 30, 2023 | Blog

Food security is a national security issue everywhere | CGIAR The war in Ukraine is having a significant impact on food security around the world. The conflict has driven up the price of grains and fertilisers, contributing to food insecurity and forced migration....

What we were reading in May: Evaluating Migration, Gender Norms

by Sharon Scotcher | Jun 15, 2023 | Blog

New evidence on humanitarian aid: Cash transfers improve outcomes for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia | 3ie This recent impact evaluation from 3ie highlights the positive effects of a multipurpose cash transfer program (ADN Dignidad) for Venezuelan migrants in...

Doing without harm? Sustainability evaluation of the HRDOP Plus Programme

by Diana Kun | May 22, 2023 | Blog

The EU Taxonomy Regulation lays out the 6 environmental objectives that Cohesion Policy is required to follow. Operational Programmes under this Regulation should support activities that would respect the climate and environmental standards and priorities of the...

What we were reading in March

by Sharon Scotcher | Apr 19, 2023 | Blog

Five lessons from our Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Evidence (TREE) reviews | 3ie The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is working on developing stronger systems for producing Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Evidence (TREE). 3ie are...

“In Search of a Golden Mean for Systemic Evaluation” – a public debate between Michael Quinn Patton and Mike C. Jackson hosted by EES

by Barbara Schmidt-Abbey | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog

By TWG8 Co-leaders Barbara Schmidt-Abbey and Kirsten Bording Collins The newly established EES Thematic Working Group 8 ‘Systems Approaches in Evaluation’ (TWG8) was honoured to host an online debate between two giants in their respective fields of evaluation...