Last summer, the European Union released an Evaluation policy for development cooperation. Entitled Evaluation Matters, it notably emphasizes the “Evaluation First principle” which means that good intervention and policy must...
This week capacity4dev.eu is marking the start of the International Year of Evaluation with a thematic week on evaluation. “The international year of evaluation is for us a good opportunity to try and increase the demands for...
This policy brief describes the interconnections between climate change and biodiversity. It highlights the importance of considering biodiversity within climate change policies, programmes and projects, and presents potential...
Investments in energy efficiency improvements are vital to ensure Europe’s future as a sustainable, yet prosperous economy. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, however, there is a great risk of losing sight of the benefits of energy...
Clarify what is to be evaluated! Tailor the approach! Position evaluation as a learning function! These are three keys to better evaluation provided by Steve Montague, Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society, who came to...
When we talk about evaluation, we often focus on its approaches and methods, how to undertake an evaluation, and the report. This is all very good and useful, but it is not the whole story. Evaluation is essentially part of a...
Presentation about the evaluation of the European Union's (EU) support to rule of law (RoL) and anticorruption in partner countries. This evaluation provides an independent and evidence-based assessment of the performance of the...
Development cooperation is probably one of most intensively evaluated policy domains. The EU alone produces an impressive stream of evaluations every year. These include 10-12 “strategic” evaluations, which seek to understand how...
In this final edition of the EvalCrisis podcast series by the EC’s Evaluation Support Service, we take stock of what we learned, together with the Director for Sustainable Development Policy and Coordination Félix Fernández-Shaw...
The interview below was done by the Evaluation Support Service (ESS), a service to Unit 04 Results, Evaluation and Business Processes, of DG DEVCO. It addresses the critical question of the role of evaluations in generating...
