SDGs Archives - EVALUATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Evaluation for Transformation, Part 2. Interactions between the SDGs – and beyond

September 25, 2018 Zenda Ofir 0

Key Interactions

**10 min read** If you read this year only one set of papers useful for SDG related evaluation, let is be this ISC/Nilsson et al series on the interactions between the SDGs developed between 2016 and 2018, as well as ... Read more »

Economists, the ‘broken’ aid system and turning the RCT tide

July 28, 2018 Zenda Ofir 5

**Five minute read.** “Aid projects might yield satisfying micro-results, but they generally do little to change the systems that produce the problems in the first place.” On 16 July 2018 fifteen prominent economists, including three Nobel winners, wrote in the ... Read more »

Evaluation for Transformation 1. Can we please get beyond ‘buzzwords’?

July 10, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2

Can evaluation help enable and support transformative development? We know we need the latter. Yet like sustainability, transformation (or transformative change) and transformative development are these days frequently dismissed as ‘buzzwords’ (or even worse, as ‘fuzzwords’). This is a very ... Read more »

SDG Evaluation Call to Action 2: Consider macro influences on development

May 10, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

In 15 years I have not conducted a single evaluation where I did not ask many questions about the reasons why things were working well, or not so well – and triangulating from different perspectives and sources of ... Read more »

More about the Call to Action 1: Evaluation is crucial for SDG success!

April 30, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

Here is a concise and useful (I hope!) briefing by EVALSDGs on the value proposition of evaluation for the SDG era. In my previous post I highlighted the first “Call to Action” that flowed from my analysis of lessons for the ... Read more »

More about value propositions

April 29, 2016 Zenda Ofir 0

No, I don’t equate evaluation with toilet paper made of gold – even if it costs a cool US$1.3 million. (I know, this is definitely fodder for jokes). But I want to use the image to make a serious point: ... Read more »

The SDGs, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Fifth Wave and the Global Evaluation Agenda

March 23, 2016 Zenda Ofir 2

Industrial Revolution

We are all somehow aware that we are on the cusp of dramatic change in society. A series of revolutionary technology-driven changes are set to have a very fundamental effect on how we live, work, relax and relate to one ... Read more »

Evaluation in the SDG era: Lessons we ignore at our peril

March 21, 2016 Zenda Ofir 2

Evaluation is entering an exciting period – one that will challenge us all to think in new ways and to focus on new things. This blog post is the first in a series aimed at highlighting some of the most ... Read more »