Evaluators juggle many roles. To support their professional development, GEI has developed a competency framework that clearly defines the essential skills and knowledge evaluators need. Douglas Glandon, GEI’s Lead Technical Advisor, shares how the framework supports better evaluation practice.

The global launch of Glocal Evaluation Week 2025 sparked a candid, thoughtful conversation about shaping a better future through evaluation. In this blog post, Patrizia Cocca shares highlights from the session on how evaluation can foster trust, truth, and transformation.

In February 2025, GEI unveiled its new visual identity. Patrizia Cocca, GEI’s Communications and Knowledge Management Lead, recalls GEI's rebranding journey and how it deepened a sense of shared purpose and identity among the diverse partners and initiatives of GEI.

Dr. Candice Morkel is the new Head of Program for the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET). In this blog post, she reflects on IPDET’s journey and future direction, offering a glimpse into the bold and exciting vision for IPDET 3.0.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.