"Impact evaluation" isn’t the only way to understand what works.
In CDI@10: Replace Impact Evaluation with Contribution Analysis, we revisit John Mayne’s legacy and explore how a more reflective, context-aware approach can reshape evaluation today. buff.ly/g1R16oc
🌍 When crises hit, it’s the most vulnerable who bear the heaviest burden.
The World Bank’s latest evaluation explores how adaptive social protection systems can respond faster and more effectively to shocks.
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💰 As global political violence nearly doubles, aid budgets for peace & security are shrinking fast. What happens when governments cut non-military assistance while local communities face growing crises? Read more in this blog: buff.ly/SjgG7cN
✨ New guidance for evaluators in philanthropy: How do we define quality and rigor when using causal pathways? This report argues that instead of starting with existing standards, we should first ask: what do we value? 📖 Read more: buff.ly/K22EeJf
Want to learn how to plan and conduct focus groups? Sarah Elaine Eaton, Ph.D. from Calgary University created a training manual especially made for research assistants in education field. Read more: buff.ly/IOfJw0p
📜 Evaluation has never been neutral. From ancient empires to today’s democracies, evaluation has shaped power, justice, and progress. Part 4 of the Evaluation’s Journey series explores its deeply political roots—and why that matters now more than ever.
🌍 Disasters are hitting harder and more often. Are our systems ready? A new report explores how social assistance data can help governments respond faster and better to shocks. Real-world cases, practical insights, and a call to rethink humanitarian response. 🔗 buff.ly/5U3qusQ
📉 The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2025 shows a humanitarian sector entering financial crisis, presenting it with an unprecedented challenge. We are entering a new era for international humanitarian response. Read the full Alnap report here: buff.ly/xtXldwm
🌍 The same evaluation designs cannot be applied to all cases. What happens when we embrace complexity, power dynamics and true partnership in evaluating community-led development? Read more with this opinion piece: buff.ly/XmECoEy
🚨 How did Brazil pull off its fastest disaster response ever? Dive into the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods case study and see how a mature, tech-enabled social protection system rose to the challenge—despite coordination hurdles.
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🌍🌱 What really remains after resilience projects end? A rare return visit to villages in Chad years after a climate-smart agriculture project closed reveals hard truths—and valuable lessons—for future adaptation efforts: buff.ly/KpgMtrE
📊🔍 Ever wondered how to trace the real impact of complex interventions like policy advice or knowledge work? Process tracing offers a powerful, theory-based way to uncover causal links—especially when outcomes are hard to measure. Learn more: buff.ly/oy6s0ux
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🌐 The World Peace Foundation launched their completely revised and updated famines dataset, from 1870 to present at a time where data have become increasingly difficult to come by. Watch the presentation by Alex de Waal, executive director of WPF:
The humanitarian system needs a reset. The Flagship Initiative shows how: local leadership, community-driven planning, and smarter, faster aid. Discover what’s possible in their Year 2 Learning Report: buff.ly/UHNT9Os
📊 As funding shrinks and crises grow, the humanitarian data ecosystem faces a critical stress test. How do we protect the data that powers crisis response?
Read more in OCHA report on The State of Open Humanitarian Data — where progress, pressure, and potential for a reset collide.
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🌍 25+ years of crisis. Drought, famine, and conflict have left over half of Somalia’s population food-insecure. In 2023, the UN scaled up its response. Did it work?
📑 The GPPi-led review offers crucial lessons on aid coordination, effectiveness, and trust in fragile contexts.
Cash aid under pressure: In the Sahel, growing restrictions are threatening the lifeline of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). A new CALP Network study dives deep into the political, social, and operational causes—and offers real strategies to keep aid flowing.
Foreign aid under fire: Since Jan 20, 2025, the far right has launched a full-blown attack on USAID. But not all critiques of humanitarianism are the same. Glasman unpacks the stark contrast between reactionary and progressive critiques—and why it matters for human dignity.
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🌍 Measuring impact isn’t just about numbers—or stories. Mixed methods evaluation bridges both, giving us a fuller picture of what truly works in development.
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🌍 In their second blog in the Full Spectrum Coalition series, the Institute of Development Studies dives into the real-world messiness of evaluation design—this time from a workshop in Senegal with Tostan. What does meaningful deliberation look like in practice?
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🖥️ Independant Evaluation Group launched a series of virtual conversations, around the future direction of the independant evaluation practice. Watch the replays here: buff.ly/6kbIGNy
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🌱 Can insurance help farmers before disaster strikes? A new anticipatory insurance product from African Risk Capacity aims to do just that in Malawi and Zambia.
This report by Tufts University dives into the costs, benefits, and future potential of the approach. Read more: buff.ly/opuq26b
📢 In November 2024, the HERE-Geneva podcast turned 10 🎂 joined them on a ten-years retrospective on their previous work: here-geneva.org/here10
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🔎 How well do the OECD DAC criteria work in humanitarian evaluations? ALNAP’s latest research explores key challenges and lessons learned to inform better guidance.
Get the insights in this summary brief: reliefweb.int/report/world....
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🌏 Our pick of the week is a special issue of Disasters arguing that how imperative it is to recognise the nature of local knowledge of the Global South in order to better international respondents response coordination: buff.ly/3X8lbDi
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🛜 Our pick of the week is a 'To-Go' paper by the Centre for Humanitarian Action about the inevitable digital future of the humanitarian sector, and the challenges that come with.
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🔴 Conditions have become increasingly difficult for humanitarian actors worldwide. In times of deteriorating domestic stability and active conflict, the need for robust data and evidence for what works is ever more necessary yet harder to obtain.
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🚨 The US administration’s attack on DEIA isn’t just politics—it’s an attack on the core humanitarian principles. Ignoring marginalization in crises doesn’t make it disappear; it makes suffering worse.
Read why DEIA is not optional for principled humanitarian action:
💬 Our pick of the week is an article by Ugo Gentilini on why does in-kind assistance persist when evidence favors cash transfers. Bear with him as he takes us through the perspectives of 6 fictionnal characters gathered to discuss whether cash is better than food...
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💭 Our pick of the week is a working paper by the Humanitarian Policy Group and ODI about one of the few successful humanitarian reform initiatives in past few decades: cash assistance.
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