European Union external assistance, which accounts for half of development aid, must demonstrate that development policy achieves results. A recent workshop in Brussels looked at how a results-based approach that considers desired...
‘Alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much’ - Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of Health Services rightly quoted in his inauguration speech during International Conference on ‘Data for Decision (D4D)...
Q&A with Rupert Simons, Chief Executive Officer of Publish What You Fund. Publish What You Fund is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for aid transparency. “We believe that information is power and we campaign to make that...
Gender marker: G2-Promotes gender equality as a primary objective Period of implementation: 2021 - 2024 Amount: EU provided EUR 8,040,000 to fund the Balochistan Basic Education Programme (BBEP, 2016-2020) and EUR 17,400,000 for...
The relevance of health research for society is increasingly becoming an issue. Governments, funding agencies and civil society demand from researchers more accountability and more direct inputs into health policy development...
Development aid is working, don’t stop now. That was the message Danish non-governmental organisations wanted to send in the face of flagging public support for development. So four years ago, in collaboration with the Danish...
When development partners met in Busan, South Korea in 2011, one of their aims was to make aid more effective. The event launched the Global Partnership for Effective Development and Cooperation, underpinned by the principles of...
The World Bank has a question; how can it improve its Science of Delivery? The Science of Delivery means "to learn better and adapt more quickly when things work well or when they don't work well and take some of the lessons of...
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...
#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...
