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16
Apr
Learning from China's Transformation, Part 2. Towards an ecological civilisation
China’s ambitious vision for an ‘ecological civilisation’ offers a striking counterpoint to Western development models. This post examines how Confucian philosophy, environmental policy and systems thinking converge in China’s approach to sustainable development.
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14
Apr
Learning from China's transformation, Part 1. Why learn from China?
We can learn from one of the greatest transformative development success stories of all time. For the first time in history a country has lifted 850 million people out of poverty at a pace never seen before. Why evaluators have an imperative to learn from this achievement.
6 min read
12
Apr
Guest post: The Efficiency criterion
The OECD/DAC criteria have been under review and debate since 2018. As Zenda Ofir explained in her widely discussed
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08
Apr
Leslie Goodyear's Top YEE Tips
I'm Leslie Goodyear, and I have recently finished my year as president of the American Evaluation Association. In
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28
Mar
Jo Puri's Top YEE Tips: So, you want to be an evaluator?
I head the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund, an office that was founded only two years
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26
Mar
Fabiola Amariles' Top YEE Tips: Reflections on attitudes
Zenda's invitation to contribute to her blog with some tips "from the Global South" for Young
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09
Jan
Snippet: How data visualisation can mislead
We live in an era of 'big data' and 'big information'. We work in an increasingly
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06
Jan
Evaluation shelfies
A while ago Michael Quinn Patton urged us in one of our Young and Emerging Evaluator posts to share the
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03
Jan
Towards Transformation, 3. A grand narrative for evaluation in this era
In its very essence, the concept of evaluation is beautiful, I argued long ago in one of my first blog
5 min read
20
Dec
Guest post: Integrated framework for the evaluation of Agenda 2030 in LAC
Sustainable development consists of satisfying the needs of the present generation without compromising the capacity of future generations to meet
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