Enjoy this short and crisp video from Marco Segone, chair United Nations Evaluation group, who shares the 5 good things that happened in terms of Evaluation in the year 2016 and priorities in 2017 . Thanks to Marco Segone, Jin Zhang and UNEG Secretariat for the video.

http://www.nocomment.mg/expansion-madagascar-engage-et-engageant/

This is what it looks and feels like.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/26/the-oppressed-majority-eleanore-pourriat/

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Une opportunité importante pour la rencontre des membres de EvalGender+ au Forum International Francophone de l'Évaluation qui se déroulera du 13-16 Décembre 2016.

Dès le 13 Décembre 2016, venez partager vos expériences en matière d'évaluations axées sur l'équité et le genre. Venez nous dire comment évaluer les objectifs de développement durable en tenant compte de l'équité et du genre?  Comme vous le savez, plus on partage, plus on s'enrichit. Des…

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... contribute to the process of determining how best to move forward. This key issues guide was written by Angela de Prairie with advice from Ranjani K Murthy

There is extensive literature on poverty, gender equality, and sustainable development but few data and information regarding how the use of time affects such issues. This report, through facts and figures, clearly shows that time spent in unpaid employment, mainly by women, contributes to economic growth even if it is generally ignored in economics. Therefore provides motivation for time use surveys (TUSs) to measure, monitor, and understand economic and social consequences of many…

Author: Laura Gagliardone

Date: November 2016

LinkedIn profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragagliardone81

Abstract

People’s behavior is determined by their setting of goals, the motivation they feel…

STUDY: WOMEN’S ALLOCATION OF TIME IN INDIA

Author: Laura Gagliardone, Research Analyst and Development Writer

LINKED IN PROFILE ¨ glaura.sorriso@gmail.com

Date: November 2015

LESSONS LEARNED

1. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: review the literature regarding the…

FullSizeRender_2.jpgEvalGender+ present at AEA 2016 Conference

During the recent AEA conference 2016 in Atlanta, several members of the Management Group of EvalGender+ presented a panel on “Challenges and Successes of Operationalizing EvalGender+ Globally”. In a rich exchange with the audience, we discussed achievements…

Dear Team,

4 November 2016, goes down in the History of the Evaluation Profession in Rwanda as the day that gave birth to the Rwanda Monitoring and Evaluation Society. I am happy to have witnessed this great milestone in Africa’s Evaluation History as it unfolded at the Lemigo Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. The process that finally culminated into the official launch of…

Dear readers, attached please find the barking-up-a-better-tree-aea-oct-26-final presentation we did last week at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference in Atlanta GA. I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Beatrice Lorge Rogers PhD, Professor, Friedman Nutrition School, Tufts University (aka the famous …

I am very pleased to share with the Gender and Evaluation community the new Guidance on Evaluating SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens.

The objective to publish a new  guidance is to focus on the SDGs process, and support  national evaluation systems on how to integrate equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation to inform national reviews of SDGs. The guidance proposes a step by step process  for country-led evaluations that are equity-focused and…

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This report presents findings from a Qualitative Evaluation of a sports-based adolescent girls and young women's empowerment programme in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai called the Goal Programme. The evaluation was commissioned by the Naz Foundation and Dasra. It argues that the Programme has strengthened self-esteem, leadership and life skills of adolescent girls and young women, and made a dent on ability to handle gender based violence, menstrual health, and financial literacy. Gender…

During four days from 20-23 September 2016, Donna Mertens, the well-known professor and author of several books on mixed methods in research and on diverse participatory and inclusive approaches to evaluation, conducted a course on Transformative Evaluation to 35 professionals of several disciplines from Chile, Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Paraguay in Santiago, Chile.  The course was sponsored by Fulbright Foundation, Universidad Santiago de Chile and American Evaluation…

Marco Segone, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office at UN Women, speaks about evaluation in the context of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Key differences between MDGs and SDGs and also shares what SDGs mean for the evaluation community. Strong evaluation functions can determine what works and what cannot work.…