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Shared knowledge and experience from the global evaluation community.
- A recent essay competition for young and emerging evaluators (YEEs), jointly hosted by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), and EvalYouth, invited emerging evaluators to propose solutions for closing the gap between global and local knowledge.
Writing competition on Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Meet the judges!
Evaluations are more effective when they consider the cultural context of the country or region where the project or programme was focused.
Knowing the place: Key methods and processes for evaluator engagement in environmental sustainability evaluations
Understanding the 'place' - be it the site of a project, program, strategy or policy - is critical when addressing environmental sustainability as part of an evaluation.Knowing the place
Most interventions occur at a place; projects are often at one or more places such as communities or districts; strategies find their application at places, as do policies, often through programs.Knowing place through story
Knowing place is essential, as understanding all aspects of context is vital to undertaking evaluation that supports community, environmental renewal, and sustainability.Read and contribute to evaluation journals
In this blog, Patricia Rogers explores how you can make the most of evaluation journals.The science behind data collection - gLOCAL 2023 webinar recap
This blog shares some of the lessons from the gLOCAL2023 webinar, The science behind data collection: how to choose the best tools and approach to collect data considering the culture, context, and existing partnerships. It outlines five considerations: the budget, respondents and accessibility, the kind of data being collected, challenges to data collection and how the data will be used.Learning from gLOCAL conversations
The week before last, we were treated to over 300 diverse, live events on evaluation in the annual event that is glocal – a week of locally hosted, globally accessible webinars, presentations and hybrid sessions that is convened by the Global Evaluation
Evaluability assessments are an essential new tool for managers
The evaluation report has been finalized, recommendations have been made, the findings have been presented to management and funders, and then … nothing happens. In this post, originally published by CGIAR, Rick Davies and Keith Child, discuss the new CGIAR guidelines for evaluability assessment.A new pathway: how can funders support meaningful monitoring, evaluation, and learning practice in the field?
How can donors and grantees work together to create effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practices that drive field-wide transformation?
Writing for utilisation
Evaluators need to communicate better and foster the utilisation of evaluation findings through clear and engaging writing.
Take a tour of the new BetterEvaluation website
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a major upgrade to the BetterEvaluation knowledge platform.
We have rebuilt and reshaped betterevaluation.org with our users in mind to provide:
Easier navigation
What do you know? Centering knowledge generation and sharing to transform evaluation systems - AEA22 poster resources
A collection of knowledge management (KM) and communities of practice (CoP) online resources compiled bv Alice Macfarlan (BetterEvaluation Knowledge Platform Manager, GEI) and Maurya West Meiers (IEG).
What is evaluation to do? Ways of responding to the climate and environment crisis – Part 1
This blog is the first of a 2-part series on the issues raised about COP26 in papers published in the journal Evaluation.
What is evaluation to do? Ways of responding to the climate and environment crisis – Part 2
This blog is the second of a 2-part series on the issues raised about COP26 in papers published in the journal Evaluation.
BetterEvaluation 2022 Holiday Reading List
Happy Holidays! As we head into 2022 we thought we'd share a list of resources for you to peruse in the new year.