Building a Community of Practice around Evidence Generation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Building a Community of Practice around Evidence Generation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a U.S. agency that partners with countries to reduce poverty through evidence-based, sustainable economic growth initiatives. In this blog piece, we learn how MCC builds a community of practice around evidence generation.

The Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Latin America and the Caribbean at the 2024 NEC Conference in Beijing

Insights from NEC: the CLEAR-LAC experience

Cristian Crespo and Shantal Aragón were among the 2024 NEC Conference speakers representing Latin America and the Caribbean. In this blog piece, they share the five most important lessons they learned from the conference.

Claudia Olavarria, Feminist Evaluation Consultant at the Global Evaluation Initiative, during the 2024 NEC Conference in Beijing

After Beijing, What’s Next?

Claudia Olavarría, Communications and Feminist Evaluation Consultant at GEI, shares insights gained from the 2024 NEC Conference on the next urgent steps towards making evaluation systems and practices more inclusive and transformational.

Online workshop organized by SEGEPLAN, CLEAR-LAC, and IDB OVE to encourage institutions to reinforce structures, increase the use and quality of evidence, and collaborate on a joint work plan

Collaboration is Key to Enhancing Evaluation Systems in Guatemala

Monitoring and evaluation systems need collaborations to succeed. In this blog piece, Shantal Aragón highlights the power of collaboration in building and strengthening evaluation capacities in Guatemala.

VERITAS: 7 Strategies for Building Trust in Evaluation Findings | Blog post by Patrizia Cocca, Communications and Knowledge Management Lead at the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI)

VERITAS: 7 Strategies for Building Trust in Evaluation Findings

In a world that's increasingly skeptical and overloaded with information, how can we ensure that evaluation findings are trusted and heeded by decision-makers? In this blog piece, Patrizia Cocca introduces VERITAS, an acronym underlining seven strategies for building trust.

gLOCAL is My Favorite Time of the Year! But I Need to Catch My Breath, a blog post by Claudia Olavarría, gLOCAL Coordinator and GEI Communications and Gender Evaluation Consultant

gLOCAL is My Favorite Time of the Year! But I Need to Catch My Breath

What makes the gLOCAL spirit so contagious? In this blog post, GEI Communications Consultant and gLOCAL Coordinator Claudia Olavarría describes the joy and excitement that gLOCAL Evaluation Week radiates and the vibrant community that makes this global knowledge-sharing event a success every year.

Making Evaluation Findings More Engaging, blog post by Patrizia Cocca, Communications and Knowledge Management Lead at the Global Evaluation Initiative

Making Evaluation Findings More Engaging

How can we make evaluation findings more accessible and more understandable? GEI Communications and Knowledge Management Lead Patrizia Cocca shares key insights from GEI's gLOCAL webinar on making evaluation more engaging through creative and strategic communications.

When Empathy Amplifies Data - a blog by GEI Communications Consultant Graham Holliday

When Empathy Amplifies Data

How do you humanize data? In this blog post, GEI Communications Consultant Graham Holliday invites us to look beyond the numbers and recognize the human beings, lives, and experiences behind them.

IEG Director General Sabine Bernabe during a visit to the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA), a GEI implementing partner

Building Early Wins into Evaluation Systems

GEI Program Manager Dugan Fraser reflects on the importance of celebrating the small yet meaningful victories we earn along the lengthy and often challenging journey towards building strong M&E systems.

Harnessing evaluations for sustainable development

Harnessing Evaluations for Sustainable Development: A Call to Action

As the world grapples with pressing environmental challenges, the importance of integrating environmental considerations into evaluation practices has never been more crucial, presenting challenges and opportunities for evaluators and policymakers alike.