Blog Posts

Blog Posts

Blog Posts

We collect knowledge-rich blogs from evaluators and persons both within and without our community. These blogs offer writers the opportunity to narrate in less formal writing styles their personal evaluation experiences, capture evaluation findings in easy-to-understand ways while engaging the community with other relevant knowledge.

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What the Green Climate Fund Can Learn from Climate Investment Funds Evaluation

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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Is Climate-smart development and economic Prosperity Mutually Exclusive?

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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Many in the Climate skeptic community have peddled the notion that climate-smart development and economic growth are mutually exclusive. And too often, this narrative has dominated mainstream climate change debate.

How Effective is the ADB in Facilitating Access to Climate Finance?

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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RB Santos' Guide to a Winning Abstract

Romeo Santos
WorkLand M&E Institute, Philippines
Exec Director
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The 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development has been confirmed for November 4-6, 2014 in Washington DC.

Evaluating Impact of Low Carbon Policies and Programs

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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Low carbon development gained prominence at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. Since then, many countries have established low emissions growth strategies aligned to their national development plans.

Adjustments to Indian Renewable Energy Policies Could Save up to 78% in Subsidies

Gireesh Shrimali
Monterey Institute of International Studies
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Recently, the Government of India announced plans to award licenses for an additional one gigawatt of solar in the next year ?

Lessons from the African Evaluation Conference in Yaoundé

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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I spent the early part of March in Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon participating in the 7th international conference of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA).

Big Strides for CIF Measuring and Reporting in 2014

Christine Röhrer
Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
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After a year and a half of hard work on creating user friendly monitoring and reporting toolkits, the fruits are beginning to show with all four CIF programs now able to use their toolkits to report FY14 results. It?s been a challenging but rewarding journey!

Wanted: A Simple Measure of Success in a Complex World

Caroline Heider
Independent
Director General
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Speaking at the World Bank, Ben Ramalingam, author of Aid on the Edge of Chaos set out a challenge to those working in the humanitarian and development fields: Move away from a narrow focus on what we think is important and take a more wide-