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INTPA/ESS home
Welcome to these pages of the Evaluation Support Service to the DG INTPA of the European Commission! We support EU Delegations and INTPA Units to get the most out of evaluations. On these pages you will find three initiatives that are open to the wider evaluation community:
- EvalCrisis – a rich collection of resources to guide evaluators and evaluation commissioners through the challenges of evaluation in times of global crisis.
NEW! (November 2021) a video and two papers are now available to present the key lessons learnt from EvalCrisis – follow this link! - Disseminating evaluations – guidance on the creative dissemination of evaluation results to help you communicate well and reach a wide audience
- Evaluation in hard-to-reach areas (HRA) – a collection of resources based on a series of conferences on data collection in areas where access is difficult
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Get in touch!
Do you have questions? Or do you have experiences to share and resources to contribute? Please email us at evalcrisis@evaluationsupport.eu.
Would you like to stay informed of new resources and developments, such as the publication of new interesting references, the release of webinars and podcasts? Please register your email address here; an opt-out system will be included in our messages.
INTPA staff: ESS provides dedicated helpdesk support to discuss your plans and see how best your planned evaluations can be adapted to the present crisis; contact us at INTPA-Evaluation-Support@ec.europa.eu to arrange a call.
The Evaluation Support Service Team
INTPA/ESS home
Welcome to these pages of the Evaluation Support Service to the DG INTPA (previously DG DEVCO) of the European Commission! We support EU Delegations and INTPA Units to get the most out of evaluations. On these pages you will find three initiatives that are open to the wider evaluation community:
- EvalCrisis – a rich collection of resources to guide evaluators and evaluation commissioners through the challenges of evaluation in times of global crisis
- Disseminating evaluations – guidance on the creative dissemination of evaluation results to help you communicate well and reach a wide audience
- Evaluation in hard-to-reach areas (HRA) – a collection of resources based on a series of conferences on data collection in areas where access is difficult
Access relevant INTPA/ESS pages by clicking on the thumbnails below.
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The thumbnails above give direct access to the EvalCrisis blog and podcast series, as well as to the conference recordings on Evaluation in Hard-to-Reach Areas, but there is a lot more to discover. For the full collection of resources, browse the ESS Library.
'Adapting Evaluation in Times of Crises' - Conference recording
Please access the recording of the final conference of the Evaluation in Crisis initiative by clicking the image below.

Get in touch!
Do you have questions? Or do you have experiences to share and resources to contribute? Please email us at evalcrisis@evaluationsupport.eu.
Would you like to stay informed of new resources and developments, such as the publication of new interesting references, the release of webinars and podcasts? Please register your email address here; an opt-out system will be included in our messages.
INTPA staff: ESS provides dedicated helpdesk support to discuss your plans and see how best your planned evaluations can be adapted to the present crisis; contact us at INTPA-Evaluation-Support@ec.europa.eu to arrange a call.
The Evaluation Support Service Team

Latest activities
#EvalCrisis Blog - No 01 - Remote data collection for Evaluation and Research
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Remote data collection for Evaluation and Research HUR HASSNAIN and MARCO LORENZONI In contexts where it is not possible to have direct interaction with respondents, e.g., during pandemics...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 11 - Legislatures in Crisis
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Legislatures in Crisis COVID-19 and Evidence use JOSEPHINE WATERA Legislatures play key roles of improving the quality of governance through ensuring transparency, accountability, shaping...
#EvalCrisis Blog - No 02 - Evaluation from space
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Evaluation from space Evaluations during difficult times ANUPAM ANAND, ABU M. JALLOH, and HUR HASSNAIN Evaluations in contexts that are not easily accessible, constantly changing, and...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 08 - Integrating geospatial methods into evaluations
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Integrating Geospatial Methods into Evaluations - Opportunities and Lessons* ANUPAM ANAND & HUR HASSNAIN This blog piece is prepared to highlight some of the learning around applications...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 09 - Disseminate till you drop!
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Disseminate till you drop! The urgency of communicating your evaluation results well under COVID-19 HUR HASSNAIN and MARCO LORENZONI Hats off to you! You are one of those evaluation...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 10 - Growing as a field
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Growing as a field Using data to its full potential to evaluate in times of COVID-19 NINO CHOKHELI, MARIA MONTENEGRO, SUSAN RACHEL JOSE, UMA MAHESWARA RAO, SARAH OSMANE & NICOLE ALMEIDA...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 07 - Picking Evaluation Brains
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Picking Evaluation Brains SASKIA BRAND (ESS) Early July the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) together with EvalYouth launched the very first Evaluation...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 05 - Five steps to measuring unintended effects of development interventions
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Five steps to measuring unintended effects of development interventions HUR HASSNAIN and SIMONA SOMMA Previous #Evalcrisis blog posts have discussed the pros and cons of utilizing ICT...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 06 - ROM in the time of COVID-19
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE ROM in the time of COVID-19 ROM COORDINATION TEAM* This blog post, re-posted from the ROM website, describes how the Results-Oriented Monitoring system of the EU external action had to...
#EvalCrisis Blog - 04 - Mitigating the risks of remote data collection
#EVALCRISIS BLOG - A DEVCO/ESS INITIATIVE Mitigating the risks of remote data collection for evaluations HUR HASSNAIN Within the research and evaluation world, the use of remote data collection, especially with the use of ICTs...