What are the possibilities for impact evaluation in the private sector?

We found that there is a big opportunity for training in this field and at least in Latin America, companies and private foundations are willing to keep on learning on how to implement this type of evaluations. What will be your role in this challenge?

Find more about main challenges for impact evaluation in Latin America in a paper we developed together with …

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Desde el año 2015 se celebra cada 11 de febrero el Día Internacional de las Mujeres y las Niñas en la Ciencia. #MujeresEnCiencia inspiran al mundo con sus logros, perseverancia y valor. Con ocasión a esta fecha les comparto mi artículo, gracias por leerlo y compartirlo: …

En algún momento me compartieron un vídeo donde preguntaban a un grupo de niñas: “¿Puedes nombrar algunos inventores ?, a lo que ellas respondieron: Benjamín Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, entre otros. Sin embargo, cuando les hicieron la pregunta “¿Puedes nombrar a alguna inventora?”, Respondieron: “No, qué difícil, en la escuela…

Es necesario visibilizar los logros históricos alcanzados por las mujeres de manera individual y colectiva. Les dejo mi artículo, gracias por leerlo y compartirlo: …

Dear friends, 

I am glad to share this co-authored paper with Dr Rajalakshmi RamPrakash on publicly funded health insurance using Naila Kabeer's Gender Analytical Framework. This is a classic example. Hope you can download, use it in your work, share in your classes/training and cite. …

There is this knee-jerk reflect about "putting a number on everything". As if only numbers give a seal of credibility and authority. We should start being more vocal in resisting the tyranny of "measures first".

In social development we are grappling with many complex ideas, which can take many forms.…

Fun use of GPT-3, an #artificialintelligence tool, to develop reflective questions to enhance evaluator mindfulness and build a more reflective practice!



Here are 3 of the reflective questions that were created (more are shared through the video/blog post):



- What aspects of this evaluation have caused me to feel uncomfortable?



- What is the part of this evaluation that I find most difficult to…

War Child Canada and the Women’s Refugee Commission would like to share with the Gender and Evaluation community, our recent publication “A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation of Gender-Based Violence Programming in Restricted Environments”.

The toolkit has been piloted in Afghanistan and South Sudan among 16 local and national civil society organizations* working in restricted environments where accessing project communities is challenged due to security or safety of staff…

Hello everyone,

The latest batch of papers have now been added to INTRAC's M&E Universe. These are seven papers concerned with the M&E of capacity strengthening which form a part of the M&E of Development Approaches section. Additionally, there is also a new paper on the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP) written by Vera Scholz which is part of the…

By Alexandra Santillana (Global Affairs Canada), Fabiola Amariles & Ana Isabel Arenas (Learning for Impact).

(SPANISH BELOW) 

With our best wishes for 2021 with health and well-being, we would like to share with the Gender and Evaluation community, our recent publication for the initiative "Significant Learning in Participatory Evaluation", about a pilot experience in which we applied some feminist evaluation principles and…

Worth a read - Naila Kabeer's strong rebuttal of Esther Duflo's  proposition that affirmative action for gender equality is distortionary and inefficient. Kabeer points to the "selective storytelling" that replicates familiar biases and constructs a narrative that is not borne out by experiences on the ground.   …

Evidence shows that the value of school feeding programmes goes far beyond child nutrition.

When schools were closed during a five--month period of lockdown in Kenya this year, almost 4,000 schoolgirls became pregnant in…

EVALSDGs INSIGHT #10:

Transforming M&E for Achieving the SDGs

PURPOSE: This EVALSDGs Insight #10 concerns a long-standing issue: gender inequality and the degree to which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can assure equality and equity among peoples. Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) of SDGs implementation in 66 countries indicate that countries must act vigorously to achieve gender equity across all SDGs. This Insight proposes…

James Pann, Ph.D. interviews Rakesh Mohan who has been the director of the Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE; https://legislature.idaho.gov/ope/) an independent and nonpartisan agency of the Idaho State Legislature, since 2002. We cover critical issues related to evaluation and how it can guide government and public policy.…

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Sur les conseil de Rituu, je vous partage le compte-rendu du dernier atelier de notre communauté de pratiques et d'échanges sur le genre. Il a eu lieu le 23 juin 2020 et était consacré à "Covid et violences basées sur le genre".

Vous pouvez trouver le document en PDF…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tlicho-indigenous-podcast-climate-change-1.5694410…

Prioritising Competing M&E Needs and Demands in an Adaptive Programme: 7 Takeaways

Gloria Sikustahili, Julie Adkins, Japhet Makongo & Simon Milligan

We’ve all been there. We’ve drowned in the weight of programme documentation; the need to capture everything, to report everything, to be seen to be held accountable for…

Dear colleagues,…

• Ranjani K Murthy with Arogya Agam

Photo credit: Arogya Agam

This case study from an evaluation with highlights the complexity of women's empowerment. Researchers distinguish between individual (power to), interpersonal, collective agency (power with) and attitudinal change (power within) towards structural…