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Capacity development in both evaluation & communication: proven benefits and future directions
[This blog post was written by Ricardo Ramirez & Dal Brodhead, Principal Investigators of the project Designing Evaluation and...
Ricardo Ramirez, Dal Brodhead
May 8, 20184 min read
GOOD evaluation engages with POWER
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Zenda Ofir, South African scientist, independent international evaluator, and knowledge...
Zenda Ofir
Apr 6, 20163 min read
Outcome Mapping: a liberating tool for program design
I have been using the logical framework approach for many years to help organisations with designing their projects or monitoring and...
Clara Richards
Jan 20, 20164 min read
Insights into the state of research systems in developing countries – Part 2
In May 2015, as part of INASP’s strategy development process, we engaged an independent consultant to conduct a phone/skype survey of 39...
Clara Richards
Oct 8, 20153 min read
Insights into the state of research systems in developing countries – Part 1
In May 2015, as part of INASP’s strategy development process, we engaged an independent consultant, Teresa Hanley, to conduct a...
Clara Richards
Oct 6, 20153 min read
Monitoring, evaluation and learning to manage and implement research projects at think tanks
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Rezarta Delibashzade, Project management/Researcher at the Democracy for Development Institute...
Clara Richards
Oct 1, 20152 min read
Reflections on developing a MEL framework
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dena Lomofsky from of Southern Hemisphere. It emerges from reflection from P&I´s online course...
Clara Richards
Aug 27, 20154 min read
Our need to talk about power & knowledge in evaluation & policy cultures
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Paul R. Kelly, PhD Researcher in Impact, Evaluation & Service Design, Lancaster University,...
Clara Richards
Jul 21, 20154 min read
Strenghts of think tanks for MEL: it’s time to make better use of them
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dena Lomofsky from of Southern Hemisphere. It emerges from reflection from P&I´s online course...
Clara Richards
Jul 2, 20153 min read
RAC´s takeaways on how to monitor and evaluate policy influence: the importance of starting small
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Zoryana Kozak, co-founder and Senior Policy Expert of the Resource & Analysis Centre “Society...
Clara Richards
May 19, 20153 min read
Fostering the use of evaluation and research in policy making: the Presidency’s Department of
South Africa has had a policy unit in the Presidency for some time, which since the mid-2000s also focused on M&E. This was reinforced in...
Clara Richards
Mar 19, 20152 min read
What’s the evidence on Evidence Informed Policy Making?
One of the key indicators of policy influence is ‘framing debates’ (Jones and Villar, 2008) and there is no doubt that the narratives...
Clara Richards
Nov 18, 20143 min read
Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches
Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches ‘Seriously?! As if we don’t have enough work already! Besides, we’re...
Clara Richards
Sep 16, 20144 min read
Monitoring and evaluation for management
[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at On Think Tanks. It is part of a series of posts reflecting on a long term mentoring...
Clara Richards
Jul 31, 20142 min read
M&E systems: the importance of adopting a systems approach to implementing M&E systems
[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by...
Clara Richards
Jul 10, 20143 min read
How can organisations better implement Monitoring and Evaluation plans?
[Editor’s note: This post is the first of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by...
Clara Richards
Jun 20, 20144 min read
Cry for help: monitoring, evaluating and learning in the South, how can we do it better?
By kat m research at flickr.com under CC license Catherine Fisher´s post on our Lessons learned paper as well as Antonio Capillo´s points...
Clara Richards
Jun 9, 20144 min read
Lesson #16: Bring others into monitoring, evaluation and learning of capacity building activities
At Spaces for Engagement, our M&E approach was linked to the way the programme was developed: since we presented yearly plans on...
Clara Richards
May 2, 20144 min read
Mentoring researchers in evaluation & communication: Examples in the making
This post is about a mentoring approach to capacity development in the field of evaluation, more specifically using Utilization-focused...
Clara Richards
Nov 18, 20133 min read
Nine challenges towards think tanks evaluation in Latin America
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Natalia Aquilino, Director of the influence, Monitoring and Evaluation Programme at CIPPEC, with...
Clara Richards
Nov 14, 20134 min read
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