SDGs Archives - EVALUATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Guest Post – The etcetera of transformative evaluation

July 16, 2019 Stephen Porter & Donna Mertens 0

With the hiatus in my posts due to a fiendishly busy schedule, I am pleased to have this pertinent guest post by old friends – evaluation luminary Donna Mertens and Stephen Porter who has contributed much to evaluation in Africa. ... Read more »

Integrated framework for the evaluation of the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

December 20, 2018 Carlos Márquez 0

Guest post by Carlos Gómez Márquez in Mexico In 2019 I will have more guest posts aimed at informing or debating evaluation issues of importance – with an emphasis on the Global South. This is the first. Sustainable development consists ... Read more »

Glenn Page’s Top Tips for YEEs. Building ecosystem stewardship into your evaluation practice

December 10, 2018 Glenn Page 0

**8 min read** I met Glenn around a year ago in his capacity – at the time – as Lead Steward of the SDG Transformations Forum Working Group on Evaluation for Transformation (E4T). Since then I have worked with him, ... Read more »

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

September 25, 2018 Zenda Ofir 2

**10 min read** If you read this year only one set of papers useful for SDG related evaluation, let it 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 4

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 »