This report and framework contribute to the ongoing debate in the wider social research and academic community on the quality of all types of social research. The report aims to stimulate further debate and developmental work on these issues.

The purpose of this handbook is to guide thinking around the value of information for civil society organisations and to provide an accessible foundation of content to support the implementation of appropriate monitoring and evaluation structures.

This publication, The Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results, a d d r e s s e s the monitoring and evaluation of development results. It is intended to support country offices in aligning their monitoring and evaluation systems with RBM methodology—specifically in tracking and measuring...

This toolkit uses the framing of NAP processes to refer to the umbrella of all national adaptation planning processes. This includes the process to formulate and implement NAPs, as contained in UNFCCC Decision 1/CP.16 and subsequent decisions, along with other processes such as national strategies...

The need for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems that can help countries understand how to best adapt to climate change has become increasingly important as the effects of climate change increase and climate shocks intensify. Understanding if climate change adaptation (from here on...

This guide provides an overview of evaluation approaches and methods that have been used in the field of international development evaluation.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Analysis (MESA) tool is an important part of GEI’s integrated systems-based approach to supporting developing countries on their journey to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and evidence use. The MESA is a diagnostic tool that guides country stakeholders (e.g...

This resource provides guidance on meaningfully engaging young people in each phase of an evaluation. It promotes a deeper understanding of systematic, purposeful and meaningful youth engagement throughout the evaluation lifecycle and beyond. This guidance should be read together with the Evaluation...

The Evaluation Function of the CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service (IAES), collaborating consultants, and the EvalForward team supported the in-depth and lively discussion on the role and value of EAs in program evaluations. The online discussion gathered 42 contributions. Participants...

Evaluation matters. In an increasingly complex and challenging environment for international development and partnership, the importance of demonstrating results and learning from the European Commission’s (EC’s) external assistance is critical. Evaluation is a key learning tool for the EC to...

Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the landscape of program evaluation will be redefined by artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies. In an era where digital technologies...

This research project paper of CEDIL describes the use of secondary evaluation data from four government unconditional cash transfer programmes (UCTs) to identify high- and low-flyers, that is, those households that are able to use the income shock to significantly improve their living standards and...

This W.K. Kellog Foundation Evaluation Handbook is designed to encourage dialogue about the role evaluation should play at the project level. We encourage you to think differently about evaluation, so that together we can move the discipline from a stand-alone monitoring process to an integrated and...

This evaluation guide overviews evaluation process and provides more detail about each stage in the evaluation process. The guide demonstrates how to engage with stakeholders and explains how to develop an evaluation using a logic model, a measurement framework and an evaluation plan. Finally, the...

In this paper, fourteen leading evaluation practitioners were asked to reflect on lessons from the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for evaluation practice. Questions discussed include the following: the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate...

This paper presents 9 critical lessons to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment and transform our food systems, drawing from 47 independent evaluations recently carried out by FAO, IFAD, WFP and the CGIAR. This publication is a contribution by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and...

This evidence summary published by UNEG (United Nations Evaluation Group) and summarized by EvalForward in a brief, looks at the findings, good practices and lessons learned from past evaluations of interventions to protect food security in times of crises, in order to contribute to a more effective...