Evaluation and the forbidden truth – Part 2
Walking the talk-Evaluation has become an integral part of programme and project design, implementation and management. This is a great ...
Evaluation and the forbidden truth – Part 1
Having spent 22 years at the helm of the evaluation function in four different UN agencies and a further five ...
Encouraging Evaluators to have Multiple Perspectives
I’ve worked as an evaluation consultant since the start of my professional career, doing the things an evaluation consultant does: ...
Does evidence have a chance amidst the challenges of development?
A fair amount has been written about the apparent gap between researchers and policy-makers when it comes to ‘evidence’ – ...
Development evaluation for the benefit of the people
Good governance, participatory, people-centred democracy and development evaluation are intimately linked. Indeed evaluation cannot be understood outside of “development”, but ...
Beyond Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE)— An Invitation to Join Us on a Journey
At Southern Hemisphere we often utilise the ‘journey metaphor’ when discussing the elements of a project cycle and mapping the ...
Birds of a feather flock together
There has been a lot of engagement around creating a cadre of evaluators within the continent and South Africa being ...
A new generation of emerging evaluators join WFP in Johannesburg
THEY ARE YOUNG, TALENTED AND READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Meet Yeukai Caroline Tizora, Isabel Malandu Mukali, Mayibongwe Mncube, Stephan ...
Conducting Online Focus Group Discussions during health crisis: Facilitator’s and Evaluator’s Reflections
Use of Online Focus Groups Discussions (FGD) has expanded over the past months, as well as in the Monitoring and ...
EduCOVID TIG 2020
On 13 May 2020, SAMEA launched the EduCOVID Topical Interest Group via zoom. The TIG was initiated by SAMEA volunteers, ...