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Filter search resultsParticipatory video and the most significant change. A guide for facilitators
The toolkit is designed to support you in planning and carrying out evaluations using participatory video (PV) with the most significant change (MSC) technique, or PVMSC for short.ResourceDesigning for Action: Principles of Effective Sustainability Measurement
This report from the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability provides detailed guidance for decision makers on measuring for effective sustainability.ResourceApplying resilience thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems
This guide from the Stockholm Resilience Centre outlines seven key principles that can be used to develop resilience in social-ecological systems.ResourceAction and reflection: a guide for monitoring and evaluating participatory research
This paper from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) was designed to support those involved in participatory research and development projects with monitoring and evaluation stratResourceEvaluating sustainability: Evaluative support for managing processes in the public interest
This special issue of New Directions in Evaluation includes discussions of different types of sustainability – sustainable environment, sustainable development, sustainable programs, and sustainable evaluation systems – and a synthesis of tResourceEvaluation at the nexus between nature and humanity for transformational change
This chapter from Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times argues for the need to transform evaluation in the light of current environmental crises and sets out the major ways this needs to happen.Resource7 ways to strengthen your M&E capacity in 2020
Strengthening evaluation capacity of individuals, organisations and systems continues to be a major focus for BetterEvaluation so in this blog we present 7 ways that might be useful when planning how to do evaluation better in 2020.BlogIntroducing footprint evaluation
Given the numerous interconnected environmental crises the world faces, there is an urgent need to include consideration of environmental impacts into all evaluations.BlogWeek 50: Feedback loops – new buzzword, old practice?
Recently, I had the good fortune to start collaboration with The MasterCard Foundation, which is strongly committed to what it calls ‘listening deeply and elevating voices’.BlogParticipation 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 specificBlogPositioning 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 partBlogChoices 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.BlogStill 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.BlogPathways to professionalisation - Part 1: Professionalisation within the context of the AES
In part 1 of this two-part blog series, greet Peersman and Patricia Rogers introduce the ‘Pathways to advance professionalisation within the context of the AES’ project and report.BlogPathways to professionalisation - Part 2: Options for professionalisation
In the previous blog in this series, greet Peersman and Patricia Rogers introduced the ‘Pathways to advance professionalisation within the context of the AES’ project and report.BlogWhat does it mean to ‘un-box’ evaluation?
This guest blog by Jade Maloney is the first in a series about un-boxing evaluation – the theme of aes19 in Sydney, Australia.BlogBiodiversity and the economic response to COVID-19: Ensuring a green and resilient recovery
This policy brief “outlines how biodiversity loss is a key driver of emerging infectious diseases and poses a variety of other growing risks to businesses, society and the global economy.ResourceEvaluation at the endgame: Evaluating sustainability and the SDGs by moving past dominion and institutional capture
“Business-as-usual evaluation will not suffice.ResourceThe rights of nature: An emerging transformation opportunity for evaluation
This article invites evaluators to engage with the concept of the Rights of Nature: “recognizing ecosystems and natural communities not as property that can be owned but as entities that have an independent right to existResourceEnvironment, climate change and assessment - towards a holistic view
This blog by Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility, points out that evaluation needs to take a new, holistic perspective to address serious environmental problems.ResourceL’évaluation en contexte de développement
Ce manuel est destiné aux personnes souhaitant s’initier à l’évaluation de programmes, en particulier en contexte de développement et de coopération internationale. À cet égard, tout en déroulant le fil d’une démarche évaluative classique, il présente…ResourceEvaluating the environmental impact of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the COVID-19 pandemic
This Footprint Evaluation case study explores the feasibility and value of considering environmental sustainability in the evaluation of personal protective equipment (PPE) provisioning during the COVID-19 pandemic.ResourceLearning purposefully in capacity development (2008)
This paper examines how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) does, or could, make a difference to Capacity Development (CD).ResourceLe suivi et l’évaluation des capacités et du renforcement des capacités
L'étude se décline en une vingtaine d'études de terrain effectuées selon un cadre méthodologique comprenant les sept éléments suivants :ResourceKey considerations for managing evaluations
This guide from Pact South Africa is aimed at providing an overview of the key considerations that need to be assessed before and during the evaluation process.ResourceHow to talk about climate change
This collection of resources - toolkit, short guide and cheat sheet - sets out the challenges of talking about climate change and presents effective strategies to address them.ResourceTurin Agenda - 2022 National Evaluation Capacities conference
The Turin Agenda is a commitment presented by over 300 participants from more than 100 countries at the 2022 National Evaluation Capacities Conference held in Turin, Italy from October 25-28.ResourceLearning to evaluate capacity development and collaborative learning
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Asia faces the challenge of assessing and documenting the role of capacity development in enhancing CBNRM outcomes.ResourceIDRC strategic evaluation of capacity development: Doing things better?
The paper from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) analyses whether the results from capacity building projects have supported the organisation to achieve its mission.ResourcePublic information about evaluation
An important part of evaluation capacity strengthening is providing a clear definition or explanation of evaluation in online and printed materials.MethodExpectation of ongoing competency development
An expectation that members of an association or organisation will engage in ongoing competency development.MethodData party
A data party is a time-limited event of several hours where diverse stakeholders come together to collectively analyse data that have been collected.Method