Date: December 2023
Call for Contributions: Stakeholder Engagement in Evaluation
Engagement is a comprehensive term that covers the full range of an organization’s efforts to interact with, understand and involve stakeholders in its activities and decisions.
Date: October 2023
Evaluation Week 2022 Edition
This edition of eVALUation Matters draws from discussions, knowledge shared, and other contributions at the AfDB Development Evaluation Week 2022, which took place virtually from 28 to 30 September 2022.
Date: February 2023
Call for contributions: Rapid Evaluation
Rapid evaluation (RE) is an intensive, team-based, program-focused investigation that uses multiple methods of data collection, has an iterative process for collection and analysis, and relies on community participation to quickly develop a holistic understanding of a program from both an insider’s and an outsider’s perspective.
Date: April 2022
The future of impact evaluation in Africa
Measuring impact is a technical and complex exercise. Analyzing the impact of an intervention and determining its positive and negative impacts and whether these effects were intended or unintended, requires specific skills, methodologies, and human and institutional capacity.
Date: December 2021
Learning from Successes and Failures in Evaluation
Successes and failures are an integral part of any evaluation: evaluators face them from the beginning to the end of the process. But do evaluators learn from them? If so, where does the learning go? Do evaluators themselves and their clients benefit from it?
Date: August 2021
Evaluation Matters: Evaluation in the time of Corona
The transformational force of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we work and live, calling into question previously unchallenged notions and ideas, and requiring us to adapt to a new reality. The sphere of development and development evaluation has not been exempt.