Stretching boundaries of evaluation practice with PIALA in Ghana
The PIALA Adventure: Setting out in Ghana - September 2014. After having waited for several months for green light, I ...
Sovereign Wealth: Two ways African governments can hold DFIs accountable
At a time when Africa’s rise has been stalled by a slow-down in the Chinese economy, depressed global commodity prices, ...
Setting Standards for Evaluating Impact Investing: What Does Africa Want?
Looking ahead to 2030, African evaluators may wish to boost their knowledge of finance and investment. Current estimates indicate that ...
Rethinking Success in M&E
Measuring programme effectiveness should allow for an opportunity to reflect on results that are not primarily intended by an intervention. ...
Rethinking Evidence: Can big data help design better policies?
There is no debate, both in practice and in academia, about the fact that public policy domain is complex. In ...
Realist Evaluation for Impact Evaluation in South Africa
Monitoring and evaluation of government performance and programmes have become less of a haphazard knee-jerk reaction, a nice-to-have or an ...
Perceptions of an evaluation student in Africa
My interest in evaluation is sparked - I did not initially consider evaluation as a career. Having worked in the ...
My nine months of immersion in Participatory Impact Assessment & Learning (PIALA) in Africa
Sitting across the table from two representatives of soon to be clients, I didn’t think that this evaluation would be ...
Evaluation for Africa – A young evaluator’s wish
Evaluation is important for our continent. Many things prompted me to take an interest in a career in evaluation. After ...
Evaluation and the forbidden truth – Part 3
Selective adoption of evaluation recommendations and lessons - There is need for evaluators to define what is meant by “LEARNING” ...