The commitment to ‘Leave No One Behind’ (LNOB) is a central transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and one of three organizational ‘directions of change’ for UNDP. This formative evaluation report sets out the extent to which the LNOB principles of equality, equity and non-discrimination permeate key areas of UNDP programmes and …
Relevant, timely, targeted, efficiently & strategically communicated #evaluation evidence is vital to influence change? Learn how UNFPA is enhancing #evaluation use & beyond through communications & knowledge management. https://www.unfpa.org/admin-resource/strategy-enhance-evaluation-use-through-communications-and-knowledge-management-2022 The strategy provides a dedicated framework to strengthen the use of evaluation using communications and knowledge management as a strategic approach. The strategy focuses on providing …
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The Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) 2023 conference Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 February 2023 Online event, free Register for CEDIL2023 What have we learned about applying innovative methods to examine complex, development-related questions? Join us for the final CEDIL conference between 21 and 24 February 2023 to unpack this question …
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IEO’s evaluation guidelines now available in all six UN languages! In December, the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) launched its evaluation guidelines in all six official UN languages. UNDP evaluators work all over the world, in different contexts and cultures. To support the process, IEO developed an easy-to-use set of guidelines in the six languages …
EVALUATION SUPPORT SERVICE LIBRARY The library section of the Evaluation Support Service offers a wide range of resources in relation to the three themes shown below: evaluation in crisis, dissemination of evaluations, and evaluation in hard-to-reach areas (HRA). The resources have been compiled and developed by the Evaluation Support Service team. If you have questions on the …
Become a partner now! Policymakers around the world have long grappled with interrelated threats of poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and fragility. They now find themselves navigating the uncharted waters of the COVID-19 pandemic, facing challenging policy choices. The crisis could drive up extreme global poverty and its derailing the progress towards the Sustainable …
UNDP is committed to transparency and accountability and places great value in learning from its work in order to continue improving its performance. The previous Handbooks on Monitoring and Evaluation have served the organization well for more than a decade with over 1 million downloads. However, changes globally and across UNDP including the adoption of …
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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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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