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🎉 Enjoy the highlights of the 2024 on-site program of IPDET, Global Evaluation Initiative's executive training program for development and evaluation professionals. Let IPDET participants tell you all about their experiences 👇 https://lnkd.in/g7UFZ4-A

Simple but not simplistic - This paper provides an example of developing a rubric to identify successful and unsuccessful projects, and using Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Process Tracing to highlight different causal factors. https://lnkd.in/gf6uPPcG

It may not be the weekend any more, but these blogs are still worth a read 👇

Ever wished you could be in three places at once? 🤯 With three parallel streams at NEC, we know it was tough to catch everything live. Good news: you don’t have to miss a thing! 🎥 All 24 sessions, plus the inspiring opening and closing ceremonies, are now available to rewatch on YouTube. 📺 Replay your favorite moments—or discover sessions you couldn’t attend—here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dTD5Ga8D #NECdev

This well-informed handbook, edited by Prof Dr Reinhard Stockmann, covers important topics, providing a systematic and comprehensive exploration into the planning, process, implementation and utilisation of evaluations. Read three open access chapters for free on BetterEvaluation 👇 https://lnkd.in/gsSEMYqn

🗞️ GEI’s latest newsletter will take you on a trip back to the 2024 National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) Conference in Beijing. 🚙 🎥 Revisit #NECdev sessions and activities featuring #CostaRica, #Ecuador, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, CLEAR South Asia, and DEval - German Institute for Development Evaluation. 💡 Load up on NEC insights from: ▶️ Claudia Olavarria - Feminist Evaluation Consultant, GEI ▶️ Cristian Crespo - Executive Director, CLEAR LAC ▶️ Shantal Aragón - Evidence Use Manager, CLEAR LAC ▶️ Joselyn Corrales - Undersecretary of Evaluation, National Planning Secretariat of Ecuador ▶️ Julio Olivo - Director of Planning and Public Policy Evaluation, National Planning Secretariat of Ecuador ▶️ Eddy García - Head of the Evaluation Unit, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (Mideplan) of Costa Rica Read them all here: https://ow.ly/eKik50Ua9Gs

"Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world" explores how the term "stakeholder" can unintentionally reinforce colonial narratives and systemic inequities. Instead of offering a single replacement term, the authors encourage "a focus on the people, places, and species affected by decisions, interventions, projects, and issues." https://lnkd.in/gDievtmC

🎉 Today, join us in celebrating the 4th anniversary of the launch of the Global Evaluation Initiative! 🎉 And because it's our special day, allow us to humble brag just a bit.😉 After all, this milestone is a celebration of the incredible progress made over the years—progress that would not have been possible without the generous support of our partners and donors. 💛 To all our partners and donors, your commitment has enabled us to make a real difference in supporting developing countries worldwide in strengthening their national monitoring and evaluation systems. 🙏 A heartfelt thank you to our parent organizations, the Independent Evaluation Group of The World Bank and the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office, for your guidance and leadership.  🙏 Our gratitude also goes out to the Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P., the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Agence Française de Développement, Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada, and former GEI donor Sida. 🙏 We also thank the Inter-American Development Bank Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE), the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, and UNICEF for their valued contributions.  💎 As we celebrate this milestone, we're once again reminded that every achievement is truly a collective effort. Thank you for believing in our mission and making an impact together with us. Here's to many more years of collaboration and shared success! 🤝

CECAN Centre for Evaluating Complexity Across the Nexus's Complexity Evaluation Toolkit helps evaluators navigate complex systems, address unpredictability in policy outcomes, and enhance decision-making across nexus domains like food, #water, #energy, and the #environment. https://lnkd.in/g-tYHz2V

🔁 In case you missed this blog last week, here's another chance to be inspired to transform how decisions are made and who is involved in the process. Hear from Gabriela R., Anna Warnholz & Alice Macfarlan about the role of youth in evaluation. https://lnkd.in/g9KgPwsS #YEE #evaluation #polycrisis