Handbook Preventing Child Labour in Development Cooperation
Preventing child labour in development cooperation – Tools and strategies for monitoring and evaluating child labour in programmes and projects of international development cooperation. A Handbook composed by a SLE-Team, commissioned by the FAO. Agriculture is the single sector that uses the most child labor, according to the ‘Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluation of Child …
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Influencing Change through Evaluation: What is the Theory of Change? | Independent Evaluation Group
IEG’s Caroline Heider explains how evaluation influences change, and why this theory of change matters. To optimize value-for-money, it is essential to understand how evaluation influences change. Source: Influencing Change through Evaluation: What is the Theory of Change? | Independent Evaluation Group
Adapting M&E at the field level
Register now to e-Learning on Development Evaluation
UN Women, Claremont Graduate University and IOCE, under the EvalPartners initiative, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and in partnership with UNEG, OECD/DAC EvalNet, ALNAP, UNICEF, ReLAC, IPEN and EvalMENA, are pleased to announce the opening of the registration for the first 2016 cohort of the introductory e-Learning programme on Development Evaluation, which starts on 19 January 2016. In the …
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Enhancing the #evaluability of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (#SDG2) #zerohunger
IFAD invited us to Rome for a technical seminar jointly organized by the evaluation offices of CGIAR, FAO, IFAD and WFP. The documentation is ready at http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/events/2015/sdg2/index.htm There is also a Storify on https://storify.com/ifadnews/technical-seminar-on-enhancing-the-evaluability-of
Wikiprogress is the Platform on Measuring the Progress of Societies
Karsten Weitzenegger Consulting uses Wikiprogress, This is a global platform for you to gather, share and create information about measuring the progress of society. www.wikiprogress.org Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and economic progress. It is open to all members and communities for contribution – students and …
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New Independent Evaluation Group IEG Website
This site http://ieg.worldbankgroup.org has been developed with a number of enhancements, with the goal of improving your experience online with the World Bank Group. The site has over 20 new features and enhancements, designed to simplify and improve access to resources, promote learning, and enhance engagement. Among the new features are knowledge and learning highlights, …
Aid to poor countries slips further as governments tighten budgets | OECD Study
Development aid fell by 4% in real terms in 2012, following a 2% fall in 2011. The continuing financial crisis and euro zone turmoil has led several governments to tighten their budgets, which has had a direct impact on aid to poor countries. There is also a noticeable shift in aid away from the poorest …
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From Outcome Stories to Strategy | CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
This week the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) published thirteen outcome stories. “Islands of success” in the middle of an ambitious “ocean of change”. For instance, in Cambodia, the story of drip irrigation farming linked to market opportunities demonstrates how improved water efficiency, primarily in the form of irrigation drip-kits, resulted in …
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