Project sustainability- the continuation of benefits after project support has ended- receives a lot of attention in the GEF partnership, and rightly so. Creating lasting benefits is the ultimate goal of development work, and a higher bar to reach than delivering on planned project outcomes. But evidence of the actual sustainability of project benefits is also hard to come by, because monitoring systems typically end with a project. For this reason, evaluations traditionally rely on predictions of likely sustainability of outcomes as when project support ends, based on the risks to...
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Displaying 6 - 10 of 178Piloting Post-Completion: How do you measure real sustainability?
 On: Monday, Dec 14, 2020
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Mitigating the risks of remote data collection for evaluations
 On: Thursday, Nov 05, 2020
Within the research and evaluation world, the use of remote data collection, especially with the use of ICTs, has become increasingly prevalent. It provides us with the opportunity to gather primary data in contexts where it is not possible to have direct interaction with respondents, e.g., during the current COVID-19 pandemic and/or when the environment is not safe. However, remote data collection also poses several potential risks which need to be assessed on a case-by-case basis. |
Integrating Geospatial Methods into Evaluations Opportunities and Lessons
 On: Wednesday, Nov 04, 2020
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Evaluation from space - Evaluations during difficult times
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On: Tuesday, Aug 18, 2020
Blog co-author: Hur Hassnain, Senior Evaluation Advisor, European Commission DEVCO/EES
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Towards evaluation for a sustainable and just future
 On: Monday, Aug 17, 2020
Over the past eight months, the novel coronavirus pandemic has infected some 20 million people and killed more than 700,000, sparing virtually no country. The economic and social consequences have been devastating. The virus SARS-CoV-2 that caused COVID-19 crossed over from its non-human host, probably a bat, directly or more likely through an intermediate host like a pangolin, to a human in or around the city of Wuhan in China in late 2019. The exact transmission mechanism is still not known but the root causes are clear. |