A few years ago in a workshop I was facilitating, a man grew impatient with the pace at which the women in his group were trying to reach a consensus. He literally put his foot down, said 'women talk too darn much and that's why we don't…

Ms Sindhu Khullar, CEO Niti Aayog (former Planning commission of India) launched the Evaluation community of India on 16th October 2015 in Delhi. A. K. Shiva Kumar a development economist and professor and Dr P K Anand, Senior Consultant,DMEO, were present on this occasion. In this video Ms Rashmi Agrawal (Director NILERD) shares how the ECOI came into being and what are its future aspirations. ECOI will be hosted by Institute of Social Studies Trust.  Find ECOI on facebook…

Priya Anand posted a query (https://gendereval.ning.com/forum/topics/impact-assessment-without-a-baseline?xg_source=activity) on 28th September 2015 regarding approaches to conduct impact assessment without a baseline data. A team of three people namely Sirjan Adhikari (Nepal), Solomon Bizualem (Ethiopia) and  Ugwuibe Ted C (Nigeria) has summarized the suggested approaches to make a…

A team of 29 people from 18 countries brainstormed on the topic ‘Learning M&E and Knowledge Management’ at the National Institute of Labour Economic Research and Development (NILERD) in India.

Below are the points compiled and discussed.

Why Monitoring and Evaluation

• Accountability and Decision making eg. Donors and beneficiaries
• Learning from success/failures, process as well as learning between different…

Evaluations that Make a Difference:  Stories from Around the World , supported by EvalPartners, the African Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, is one of the first pieces of systematic research looking at factors that contribute to high quality evaluations that are used by stakeholders to improve programs and…

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Last year a story in the Guardian emphasised the importance of being sensitive to how we collect monitoring data – and the impact of receiving a "would you recommend our service" SMS on a couple who had just lost their baby.

More recently, Maria and I had our own experience that emphasised the importance of the…

Dear all,

It’s with great enthusiasm I’m sharing White Ribbon Canada and the national community of practice partners new resource entitled ‘Preventing violence against women and girls through male engagement: Exploring a national evaluation framework’. Link to framework here:…

Recently I was facilitating a workshop on team building with an activist NGO in South India. 

As part of this workshop I raised the workshop I asked the staff (from field to team level) when did they feel powerful and powerless in the organisation. 

Interestingly the field and middle level staff spoke mainly on the impact of their work (and constraints) on changing gender and social relations, while the team level staff focused on issues related to internal…

The Community of Evaluators – South Asia (CoE-SA) is organizing its 3rd Evaluation Conclave to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 23 to 27 November, 2015 (both days inclusive).Conclave 2015 is a special event being co-organized with EvalPartners and the Parliamentarians' Forum during the Global Evaluation Week, as a culmination of, and celebrating the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear). Ms Jyotsna Puri, board member of CoE,  and Chelladurai Solomon, Treasurer, CoE, personally invite…

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Here an article (in Spanish) about our recently finalized pilot experience!

"Nuevos paradigmas para evaluar y rediseñar realidades más justas e igualitarias en nuestra diversidad"

Silvia Salinas, Fabiola Amariles & Solange Grandjean…

Dear Friends,

I just published this article on DevEx:

https://www.devex.com/news/promoting-healthy-lives-access-to-water-and-well-being-for-all-86941

My reflections springboard from a gallop of Ipsos--a global survey company that works with my company EnCompass, informed by a talk with Dr. Deborah Rugg, and inspired by today's leaders as Francis…

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This is an excerpt from my article on The Huffington Post.

Please see here for the full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/john-harvey-/same-sex-marriage-india-c_b_8101466.html?utm_hp_ref=india



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Dear Colleague, 

Thought I would quickly share a some of the photos from last weeks Australasian Evaluation Society Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

As a community person I found the conference program included a lot of relevant sessions for me. Personal highlight was a plenary session which explored what evaluators can do differently to place evaluation at the top of the agenda for community. Both speakers & the chair responded to the…

At the recent Australasian evaluation Society's (AES) conference I found myself thinking more and more about the focus on the E in M&E. That is there is so little said about monitoring. Good participatory monitoring can mean the difference between a successful project and a disappointment.

In the final plenary Professor Patricia Rogers asked what did we, the delegates, consider as a bad evaluation. As I travelled home, 4.5hrs on the train I thought a lot about this. I think a bad…