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  • Sat 12 Dec 2015

    Evaluation led by children

    This is a discussion originally posted in the Gender and Evaluation communityled by Rituu B Nanda regarding Laura Hughston's report which presents a child-led evaluation of a multi-sectoral programme in Cambodia seeking to empower adolescent girls and a

  • Sat 21 Nov 2015

    Gender injustice and inequality: what helps in assessing impact?

    This week, EvalPartners will be launching EvalGender+, the global partnership for equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations. The launch is part of the Global Evaluation Week in Kathmandu to celebrate the International Year of Evaluation.

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  • Thu 12 Nov 2015

    Learning from exemplars of evaluation

    Are there particular examples of evaluations that you return to think about often? 

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  • Thu 23 Jul 2015

    Still Hesitating? Let's bust some myths around increasing stakeholder participation in evaluation

    In the final blog in the 4-part series, Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt address some of the most common forms of resistance to increasing levels of participation in evaluation.

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  • Fri 17 Jul 2015

    Choices about voices

    In this third blog in the participation in evaluation series, Irene Guijt and Leslie Groves share frameworks to approach and make decisions about the level of stakeholder involvement during different evaluation stages.

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  • Fri 3 Jul 2015

    Positioning participation on the power spectrum

    In the second blog in the 4-part series about participation in evaluation, Irene Guijt and Leslie Groves focus on making power relationships and values in 'participatory' evaluation processes explicit to avoid tokenistic participation.

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  • Tue 23 Jun 2015

    Official launch of the Francophone Network of Emerging evaluators (RF-Ee)

    The Francophone Network of emerging evaluators (RF-Ee) was officially launched on May 26, 2015 in Montreal, Quebec at the 36th conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society. This launch was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  • Sat 20 Jun 2015

    Communicating evaluation to non-evaluators

    Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has published a “10 things to know about evaluation” infographic, in support of the International Year of Evaluation.

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  • Mon 15 Jun 2015

    Participation not for you? Four reflections that might just change your mind

    ​​​This month we start a series on participation in evaluation by Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt. This blog series aims to explore one simple question: How can we best open up evaluation processes to include those intended to benefit from a specific proj

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  • Sun 17 May 2015

    Big data and evaluation: Use and implications

    Big data is emerging as a new world currency.

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  • Sat 14 Feb 2015

    Developing a research agenda for impact evaluation

    Impact evaluation, like many areas of evaluation, is under-researched. Doing systematic research about evaluation takes considerable resources, and is often constrained by the availability of information about evaluation practice.  

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  • Sat 31 Jan 2015

    Impact evaluation: UNICEF's briefs and videos

    Nikola Balvin, Knowledge Management Specialist at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, presents new resources on impact evaluation and discusses how they can be used to support managers who commission impact evaluations.

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  • Sat 24 Jan 2015

    Impact evaluation: challenges to address

    In development, government and philanthropy, there is increasing recognition of the potential value of impact evaluation.

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  • Sat 24 Jan 2015

    Impact Evaluation: Best Practices Aren’t (MQP rumination #4)

    Designating something a “best practice” is a marketing ploy, not a scientific conclusion. Calling something “best” is a political and ideological assertion dressed up in research-sounding terminology.

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  • Sat 3 Jan 2015

    Five ways to celebrate 2015 - the International Year of Evaluation!

    Welcome to the International Year of Evaluation!

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