Date: September 2019
Editorial Calendar 2020
IDEV is pleased to share its editorial calendar for Evaluation Matters 2020/21. Editors welcome topical articles from writers’ original work and will be pleased to consider contributions for the themes below, up to the closing date for each quarterly edition.
Date: June 2019
Best Practices and Innovation in Evaluation
In the context of Agenda 2030, all countries are expected to put in place rigorous and effective monitoring and evaluation processes to track progress. Yet countries are at different levels of evaluation capabilities. At the same time, development interventions are becoming more complex, with similar consequences for the evaluations designed to assess them.
Date: March 2019
Gender in Evaluation: Volume 2
Despite substantive progress made on gender equality and women’s empowerment at the global level, women continue to suffer significant economic, political, legal, social and cultural disadvantages in almost all societies.
Date: December 2018
Gender in Evaluation: Volume 1
Gender is a very current topic in the evaluation community, and was given an additional impetus with the “no one left behind” imperative of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Date: September 2018
Evaluation Week 2018: Strengthening Development Impact
From 5 to 7 September 2018, the Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) at the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted AfDB Development Evaluation Week 2018 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, under the theme: “Strengthening Development Impact”.
Date: June 2018
Building supply and demand for evaluation in Africa Vol. 2
Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and serves as the backbone of a market economy. This concept is easily transferable to the governance of countries and institutions where the practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) serves as one of the most important tools for accountability, lesson learning and results orientation.