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…

How to avoid getting just positive stories through Photo voice tool? This was a query at a session on tool photo voice session at Australasian Evaluation Community Conference which attended today on 8^th Sep 2015

We learned on application and utility of photovoice for evaluation of a program for differently abled people. Natalie Seed the presenter noted, “The participants found it a very empowering process as they have also been told about their limitations due to…

TRANSFORM Issue # 3 - The normative support work Issue

Dear Colleagues,

During the International Year of Evaluation 2015, we celebrate achievements in evaluation and prepare for future needs and opportunities in evaluation to support the Sustainable…

TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear colleagues,

UN Women and the Africa Centre for Transformative and Inclusive Leadership (ACTIL), with support from EvalGender+, the global partnership to promote Equity Focused and Gender Responsive…

Very nice shiny morning. The hills show their natural beauty. Suddenly clouds have come and surrounded the whole area. After ten minutes, clouds have gone and everything gets clearly visible. It seems that the hilly area flourishing itself newly. Very nice moments for the travellers, come from the plane lands. But it is the common phenomenon of this hilly area named Sajek,…

Dear All,

I am trying to collect the names of those from Gender and Evaluation community who will be attending the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) evaluation conference 2015 scheduled in Melbourne early September. The aim is that those participating can connect face to face.

Please share in comments section below if you are attending and in case you are presenting please do share the session that others can attend.

Also happy to share that for the first time I will…

Dear colleagues,

To end the 4 part blog series on BetterEvaluation, Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt recently gave a live Q&A that focused on questions provided by BetterEvaluation members. The questions covered a range of issues in making evaluation processes more participatory. This blog post offers a recording of the Q&A and also a couple of questions on which Leslie and Irene would like your feedback.…

The Evaluation Society of Kenya just concluded a successful two-day Outcome Mapping Training Workshop, sponsored in collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Department (MED) of the Ministry of Devolution and Planning of the Government of the Republic of Kenya and Right Track Africa.

Leading by example... The workshop was facilitated by an Outcome Mapping…

http://http://www.comminit.com/job_vacancies/content/world-banks-world-development-report-2015-justice-lens

 Justice is about fairness and equity. It is also about equitable distribution of power, resources, and outcomes in society. It requires expanding rights of the marginalized and ceilings on the privileged.

Does the…

Throughout my career as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) practitioner, I have come across many managers who were simply confounded by M&E jargons. What is an activity versus an input? How is an outcome different from an output? So confusing, daunting and and sometimes downright scary! However, it does not have to be this way.

During my workshops, I found an effective and fun way to explain basic M&E concepts to non-technical persons.It uses the analogy of a person on the…

CALL FOR APPLICATION

Golden Award for Excellence in Evaluation

The Ivorian Initiative for Evaluation (2IEval) in Collaboration with CAPEC (Political and Economic Analysis Unit) of CIRES (Ivorian Economic and Social Research Centre) has launched the first edition of the Ivorian Golden Award for Excellence in Evaluation.

EvalCafe_Yaounde 2015

Celebration of EvalYear 2015 in Cameroon by Cameroonian Community of Evaluators

I-                    ORIGIN ANF OBJECTIVES OF « EVALCAFE »

Under the initiative of the Former President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), Mr Serge Eric Yakeu, EvalCafé was launched in May 2015 with the…

The Government of Uganda represented by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Evaluation in partnership with the Uganda Evaluation Association with support from USAID, GIZ-ECD project and International Labour Organization organized the Uganda Evaluation Week 2015 to join the rest of the world in celebration for  Evalyear 2015. This Event is an international platform where Policy makers, Government technocrats, Civil Society, Academia, Development Partners,…

Uganda Evaluation Week 2015 Conference Report on the Pre-Conference Training Topic: Conducting Gender Sensitive Evaluations Trainers: Rose Nalwadda& Grace Tukaheebwa

Introduction: This report presents feedback on the pre-conference training on conducting gender sensitive evaluations that took place on 11th March 2015 during the Uganda Evaluation Week 2015. It outlines the purpose of the training, explains the methodology used, highlights the participants’ general appreciation of…

Venue: Community Development Journal conference Edinburgh,

Time: late afternoon,– 2^nd July 2015

 I was attending the session on Raising Refugee Women’s Voices facilitated by Fiona Ballantyne in which shared how her organization has tackled key issues around asylum and international protection, and the extent to which ‘institutions’ have responded to the insights and aspirations of refugee and asylum seeking women.

Two women both from Africa shared their…

UN Women invites you to share your gender-responsive evaluations on the Gender Equality Evaluation Portal: http://genderevaluation.unwomen.org/en/accounts/register Currently there are over 400 evaluations in the database.

The UN…

Is accounting for gender in an evaluation enough to term it gender-transformative? Watch Ranjani K. Murthy as she answers this and provides an overview of gender-transformative evaluations.

This video is the first in the series of training videos  being produced under ISST's project - Engendering Policy through Evaluation. 

Do share your feedback. Also, do let us know if you have any questions pertaining to gender-transformative or gender - responsive equity focused…