On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 9am EST, UNICEF Evaluation Office, EVALSDGs and IDEAS will host a Webinar on “Evaluation for Transformational Change”. The webinar will be based on IDEAS’s recently published book “Evaluation for Transformational Change: Opportunities and challenges for the Sustainable Development Goals” of which the webinar speakers Rob D. van den Berg and Cristina Magro are editors of.

The International Program Evaluation Association (IDEAS) includes Thematic Interests Groups (ITIGS) on topics such as Climate Change, Evaluation Capacity Development, Gender and Equity, and more. Earth-Eval has been in contact with Climate Change ITIG, led by Christine Wörlen with support from Karolin Koelling, and we are excited to let you know the community is now active via Trello-Board. 

The book Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of major international organizations supporting climate action in developing countries.

The Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking submissions for its second quarter edition of eVALUation Matters Magazine. This edition's theme is Preparing Evaluation of the Future: Big Data, Modern Technologies, and Shifts in Global Development Priorities. 

Authors can focus their contributions on the below-listed sub-themes, or another relevant issue, while being cognizant of the overarching theme:

On December 10 2019, the OECD DAC (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee) adopted the 'Evaluation Criteria: Adapted Definitions and Principles for Use' which contains six criteria.