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In South Africa, we are surrounded by evidence of progress. Strategies are adopted, budgets allocated, programs reach beneficiaries, infrastructure is...

Introduction Scaling is one of the most used and least precisely defined concepts in international development. Donors fund it. Researchers study it...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how development projects are designed, monitored and evaluated. Yet as AI becomes increasingly...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can support many aspects of the evaluation process, but its use also raises important questions about transparency...

The Challenge of Choosing among Food Security Indicators The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines food security as a...

Many gender-focused evaluations are still shaped by approaches that often treat women and marginalised groups as beneficiaries, respondents, or data...

Across the Global South, a paradox is unfolding, young evaluators are more qualified than ever, yet many remain locked out of leadership and decision...

In 2024, we opened a discussion on this platform titled " Management matters: exploring the link between management models and the use of evaluations"...

Evaluation has always been good at looking back. It helps us ask what happened, what worked, what did not, for whom, under what conditions, and why...

Welcome to this EvalforEarth Q&A, a space for conversations, ideas, and shared learning across the EvalforEarth community of practice, with a focus on...

Early this year, the Evaluation Offices of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Global...

Results-based management frameworks define assumptions as “the necessary conditions that must exist if the relationships in the theory of change are...