“Your assumptions are your windows to the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”― Isaac Asimov

A very warm welcome to all my readers! I decided to make this months blog about how being an Evaluator has further strengthened my ability to be flexible, to excel in any environment, and to connect with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.

I have been involved…

Are you a currently employed Non-profit professional working in Monitoring and Evaluation, Gender, or Agriculture Program Implementation? If so, Lutheran World Relief has a volunteer learning opportunity for you. Please see attached publication, and contact via the emails listed for additional information.…

The third book - A Resource Pack on Gender Transformative Evaluations - in the series of publications under the project 'Engendering Policy through Evaluation: Uncovering Exclusion, Challenging inequities and Building Capacities' (supported by the IDRC, Canada and the Ford Foundation,New Delhi) is out.

Edited by Shraddha Chigateri and Shiny Saha, A Resource Pack aims to inform readers of what constitutes gender transformative evaluations, and how to conduct such…

EvalGender + est l'une des initiatives lancées le 25 Novembre 2015 à Kathmandu (Népal) ayant pour mission de:

•  renforcer la demande, l'apport et l'utilisation des évaluations axées sur le genre et l'équité pour aider à l'atteinte les objectifs du développement durable (ODD);
• réaliser l'égalité des sexes et l'équité sociale pour le développement durable

La communauté de pratique EvalGender+Francophone mise en place à cette occasion vise…

A post published in https://evaluationstories.wordpress.com/

Para leerlo en Español: https://albordedelcaos.com/

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Gender-transformative evaluations seek to assess impact of policies, programmes and projects on transforming gender and other social relations. They adopt transformative evaluation methodologies and methods, are done people with gender expertise, and findings are fed back to marginalized women and men.

Are gender-transformative evaluations in conflict situations different from similar evaluations in non-conflict settings? Does the evaluator have to keep specific aspects in…

It is our pleasure to share with you Hon. Kabir Hashim’s article on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) magazine on page 143. If difficult to go to page, you may type 143 on the search box. It has come nicely highlighting Global Evaluation Agenda.

Dear all, I just want to share this photography and video story telling work made by a friend of my...! I think it is a good work and deserve to be shared it widely! 

The work is about Violence Against Women in India!  

Access the pictures and video here…

Myself and my colleagues at the Independent Research Institute of Mongolia conducted an assessment on SDG readiness and data availability in Mongolia, funded by UNDP. We tried to provide recommendations on how data gaps can be filled out by the government, NGOs and donors. 

This report is interesting as it gives an overall picture of the case of Mongolia - in terms of evaluation and sex-disaggregate data. We found that mostly qualitative data was missing and data collection mechanism…

Bonjour à vous,

EvalPartners a lancé le programme de financement d'activités visant une collaboration entre différentes associations nationales en évaluation et d'autres partenaires (Peer-to-Peer).

Vous trouverez  ci-joint les canevas pour la proposition.

2016%20Call%20for%20P2P%20Grants.docx…

Le Burkina Faso a bénéficié d'un appui technique et financier de EvalGender+ et EvalPartners pour mettre en oeuvre un projet pilote dénommé « Projet de renforcement des capacités en évaluation des objectifs de développement durable dans une perspective d'équité et de genre au Burkina Faso». A cet effet, un atelier de formation sur le thème ci-dessus intitulé s'est déroulé du 27 Juin au 2 Juillet et a connu la participation des parlementaires, des membres du réseau Burkinabè de…

Dear colleagues, 

It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the launch of the page on Feminist Evaluation  at the Better Evaluation portal. http://betterevaluation.org/themes/feminist_evaluation

We hope you will find it useful and encourage your feedback and sharing with your networks. The BE resources can be updated, so we welcome feedback and suggestions to make this resource…

Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades, reaching approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars in 2010. However, not all of this investment is distributed evenly by gender. It follows, arguably, that scarce research resources may not be optimally invested (by either not supporting the best science or by failing to…

Here is a new book to which I contributed a chapter 

The Future of Evaluation

Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives

Editors: Meyer, Wolfgang, Stockmann,Reinhard (Eds.)

Edition id: 314174, ebook ISBN 978-1-137-37637-4;E-Book $89; HardCover $120; Buy Chapter$29.95

Dear colleagues,

I have the pleasure to inform you that the UNEG Evaluation Norms and Standards have been updated to better reflect the strategic changes happened in the last 10 years, notably the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The updated UNEG N&S includes 4 new Norms on a) Internationally agreed principles, goals and targets; b) Human rights and gender equality; c) National evaluation capacities, and d) Professionalism,…