Few Questions: 

Why do u guys need to ask for dowry at the time of Marriage??? Can't u afford to buy the things by yourself? Y do u need the financial help (in the form of Dowry) frm Bride's side? nd then its actually not 'financial help', u ppl get demanding Nd ask for branded Car, cash, gold, furniture, etc. which the girls parents are not able to afford but jst to make you satisfy, they take Loans, which they hv to repay all…

Do you have good ideas about how to make evaluation reports more interesting?  

On the BetterEvaluation site this week we're sharing some strategies and resources, including data visualisations and cartoons, skeleton evaluation reports, and findings as headings.  

Rituu has kindly shared a real-time evaluation query about this, and is going to 'road-test' the best suggestions on her evaluation report.  You can read about 7 strategies, with lots of resources, on the…

I was fortunate to attend a session by Chris Collison, Knowledge Management specialist on learning.  He was one of the speakers at Africa Evaluation Association Conference  held recently in Yaounde, Cameroon. Here are some of the points Chris shared:

Individual learning happens naturally. When we move from individual learning to group of people learning collectively there is a big leak. Learning does not spread naturally from person to person. Moreover, learning decays over time when…

Originally posted at Al Borde del Caos

Earlier this month was held the 7th AfrEA ( African Evaluation Association )…

Dear Gender and Evaluation Community

This is a bit late, but nevertheless I am posting my reflection on AEA, 2013 which I had the opportunity to attend. 

Comments most welcome. 

Best 

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South African Government Standards for Evaluation

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Dear All,

I was facilitating a daylong gender sensitization session with my project staffs working in dairy value chain in Bangladesh. I am sharing a PowerPoint (Gender Sensitization.pptx) of that session.

Actually the session was based on the tools used and lesson learned through a gender/equity sensitive monitoring and…

This information is courtesy John Lavelle. Thank you John!

For the 7^th African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference, the Claremont Evaluation Center is proud to partner with AfrEA and the Rockefeller Foundation to bring you live webcasts of selected workshops and sessions from the conference free of charge! Even if you are not able to attend the conference in-person, you can still have access to the cutting-edge topics being discussed at AfrEA, and you will be…