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In celebration of International Women's Day 2025, GEI will honor all women working to strengthen monitoring and evaluation by launching a series of interviews featuring inspiring women working in evaluation across sectors, organizations, and regions.

In Ecuador, close to 30 civil servants gained practical skills in monitoring and evaluation during a training course developed by the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Latin America and the Caribbean, a GEI implementing partner, together with the National Planning Secretariat.

The Global Evaluation Initiative and EvalGender+, in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, launched the Feminist Innovation in Monitoring and Evaluation Small Awards Program, an opportunity for young evaluators from developing countries to get funding for gender-transformative M&E projects.

The Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Anglophone Africa, a GEI implementing partner, conducted an in-depth analysis of resilience-building efforts in Southern Africa, drawing insights from 24 evaluations to guide future interventions aimed at strengthening regional food systems.

Interventions have both intended and unintended consequences. The country-led evaluation of Malawi's COVID-19 Urban Cash Intervention examines the unintended effects of a program designed to support urban poor populations during the pandemic. Discover the findings.

In this interview, Feminist Evaluation Specialist Claudia Olavarría discusses the transformative potential of participatory evaluation in advancing gender equality, human rights, and sustainable development.

Tamil Nadu's Directorate of Social Welfare received recommendations on how to strengthen evidence-based decision-making, following a monitoring and evaluation diagnostic exercise conducted by the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for South Asia, an implementing partner of GEI.

In December 2024, over 50 representatives from governments, NGOs, social enterprises, corporations, and multilateral organizations joined Evaluating Social Programs, the flagship annual training course of the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for South Asia, a GEI implementing partner.

Senior civil servants from various government agencies in Pakistan explored cutting-edge tools and frameworks for evidence-based governance during a training organized by the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Pakistan and Central Asia, an implementing partner of GEI.

In Lahore, close to 40 government officials learned about innovative evaluation frameworks for monitoring and evaluation during a three-day workshop delivered by the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Pakistan and Central Asia, an implementing partner of GEI.