EvalForward is a Community of Practice on Evaluation for Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Development launched in 2018 by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR, with the purpose to Improve national capacities in conducting or using...

Project Cluster Evaluations (PCEs) are a type of evaluation product used by some evaluation offices, with different definitions and modalities. In general, they are evaluations which cluster multiple projects/operations which have some commonalities...

The purpose of this gLOCAL2023 presentation, organized by EvalForward and EvalIndigenous, is to advocate the need for Indigenous Evaluation to be an essential building block in developing national M&E systems and discrete evaluations; that is, as...

A Farmer Fields School is a group of up to 25 producers that meets regularly to identify common problems and develop collective solutions to local agricultural production issues. This approach is based on proven non-formal adult education foundations...

Will ChatGPT replace the work of evaluators? Is there scope to use it as an opportunity to improve evaluation, and how? Evaluators, like other professionals, are grappling with these questions: in this EvalForward Talk Silva Ferretti shared what she...

This event focused on how brain science can enhance the transformative potential of evaluations, and how this is impacting IFAD in particular. Dr. Indran A. Naidoo , IOE Director, and Dr. Srini Pillay , CEO of NeuroBusiness Group, delved into the...

Cette session francophone de la Confèrence NEC organisée par EvalForward aborde les questions de comment renforcer les capacités nationales en suivi évaluation et quelles innovations apporter afin de réduire l’écart entre le S&E et la prise de...

Following the recent online discussion , this EvalForward Talks webinar organised in collaboration with EvalIndigenous aimed to continue the exchange on culturally appropriate evaluation and how to support indigenous evaluation in order to influence...

In this EvalForward Talks session, participants shared knowledge and reflections on how to review Theories of Change, drawing from the recent online discussion. The main presentation was delivered by Thomas Archibald and followed by experiences and Q...

In this informal knowledge sharing session, members of the EvalForward Community of Practice will share innovative approaches in their M&E work, and discuss how these can be up scaled in different contexts, in order to improve, renew and strengthen M...

How has country-led evaluation of the SDGs evolved since the landmark 2014 UN Resolution? How have countries and development partners responded? This panel discussion was convened by EvalForward and EvalPartners in the context of the gLOCAL...

Sensemaking and Participatory Narrative Inquiry (PNI) are similar approaches, based on collecting stories about a real life experience from a large number of stakeholders on a topic of interest to the evaluation, and giving the storytellers...