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20
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 2. Africa-rooted evaluation

Made in Africa Evaluation 2. Africa-rooted evaluation

What is Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) - a term coined by the African Evaluation Association - or what some
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18
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 1. The beginning

Made in Africa Evaluation 1. The beginning

What is 'Made in Africa' evaluation (MAE)? It is not what most people think. In order to move
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16
Aug
Benita Williams's Top YEE Tips

Benita Williams's Top YEE Tips

**4 min read** For young and emerging evaluators there is plenty of advice about how to gain the necessary skills
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14
Aug
Juha Uitto's Top YEE Tips

Juha Uitto's Top YEE Tips

**4 min read** Unprecedented wildfires, deadly heatwaves, extraordinary floods, storms and droughts from California to Sweden, from Greece to Japan.
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03
Aug
Fred Carden's Top YEE Tips: 'Whose knowledge' matters!

Fred Carden's Top YEE Tips: 'Whose knowledge' matters!

**4 min read** Whatever methods and frameworks we use, we tend to rely on the scientific, the 'objective'
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31
Jul
Zenda's Top YEE Tips 2

Zenda's Top YEE Tips 2

**10 min read** While the five 'Top Ten Tips' in my previous post for Young and Emerging Evaluators
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28
Jul
Economists, aid and RCTs

Economists, aid and RCTs

**5 min read.** "Aid projects might yield satisfying micro-results, but they generally do little to change the systems that
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26
Jul
Zenda's Top YEE Tips 1

Zenda's Top YEE Tips 1

Given my 17-year long experience in evaluation, what are the top tips I would give to Young and Emerging Evaluators
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10
Jul
Towards Transformation, 1. The buzzword

Towards Transformation, 1. The buzzword

Can evaluation help enable and support transformative development? We know we need the latter. Yet like sustainability, transformation (or transformative
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14
Feb
Dialogue evaluation

Dialogue evaluation

Many years ago, at the beginning of my evaluation career, I read about 'dialogue evaluation'. It is a
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