Your Voice Matters: Shaping the Future of EvalForward!Mini Survey Results. To all members of the EvalForward Community of Practice who took the time to complete our recent mini survey, thank you!AgricultureEvaluation methodsEvaluation processEvaluation resultsFood SecurityGenderImpact evaluationMonitoring & EvaluationNational Evaluation CapacitiesParticipatory approachesRural developmentTheories of Change
Responsive Evaluation: A joint reflection from Rome-based agencies on the 2024 National Evaluation Capacities Conference held in Beijing, PRC The landscape of governance and development is ever-evolving, necessitating robust mechanisms for evaluation to ensure that programs and policies are responsive to the unprecedented global challenges.Evaluation eventMonitoring & EvaluationNational Evaluation Capacities
From the EvalForward community Better together: Reflections for EvalForward from Rome-based agencies on the 15th EES Conference Last month, evaluation practitioners and users gathered in Rimini for the 15th Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society (EES) under the theme of “Better Together 2024: Collaborative Thought and Action for Better Evaluation”.Evaluation event
Evaluating sustainable pathways to climate-resilient agriculture: recent experiences from an IFAD evaluation The agrifood systems and climate change nexus
Impact Evaluation: How far have we come? The impact evaluation challenge of the evaluation community.Impact evaluation
Using Artificial Intelligence to search for evidence in evaluations: the WFP experience Since 2022, the Office of Evaluation of the World Food Programme (WFP) has invested in promoting the use of evidence generated by its evaluations, developing its ability to respond to evidence needs as they arise.Artificial IntelligenceEvaluation methodsEvaluation processInformation and Communication Technologies
Conducting MEL with digital agriculture service providers – lessons from leveraging MEL to develop farmer-centric digital servicesAgricultureInformation and Communication TechnologiesMonitoring & Evaluation
From the EvalForward community Visual tools are powerful - Handle with care! Reflections on the Evalforward discussion ‘Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?’Evaluation processKnowledge management and communication
Leaving no one behind: Meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities in evaluations Many evaluators work in contexts where there is little to no existing data to help identify persons with disabilities for participation in evaluations, and other consultation or assessments.Evaluation methodsEvaluation processParticipatory approaches
What kind of evaluator are you? Exploring different evaluator paradigms This blog explores the different paradigms evaluators may have and questions how these paradigms interplay with evaluators’ backgrounds and influence their practices.
Will artificial intelligence replace us as evaluators? Technological progress can make jobs obsolete, will evaluators follow suit?Artificial IntelligenceEvaluation methodsEvaluation processInformation and Communication Technologies
“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects There is an apparent irony in the fact that systems supposedly designed to help us learn from experience have been so reluctant to learn from their own experience.AgricultureMonitoring & Evaluation