How the EvalYouth Global Mentoring Program Supports Young Evaluators

How the EvalYouth Global Mentoring Program Supports Young Evaluators

This blog post presents highlights from the review of the EvalYouth Global Mentoring Program, an initiative of the EvalYouth Global Network. The Global Evaluation Initiative funded the review to gain a better understanding of what young and emerging evaluators expect from the mentorship program.

GEI Program Manager Dugan Fraser with representatives from partner countries at the 2024 African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference in Kigali, Rwanda

7 Lessons We Learned About Strengthening National M&E Systems in 2024

In this year-end blog post, GEI Program Manager Dugan Fraser recalls the key events that shaped the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) in 2024 and all the lessons gained on strengthening national monitoring and evaluation systems.

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.