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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Meet Climate-Eval Rep to Steering Committee of 2014 International Conference

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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In late January, we advertised an opportunity to serve as representative of the Climate-Eval Community of Practice (CoP) in the Steering Committee currently planning 2nd International conference on Evaluating Climate and Development e

How do you Know a 'Successful' Climate Adaptation Project?

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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The climate change portfolio of the World Bank Group is growing. It is central to the programmatic priorities of other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).

How Evaluation Can Help Africa Tackle Pressing climate change Challenges

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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YAOUNDE, March 06, 2014: Invited to brainstorm on the challenges and prospects of climate change evaluation in Africa, three seasoned panelists with many years of evaluation experience in Africa converged on the fact that evaluation shall be immensely helpful in providing policy makers at local,

Bringing Valuable Regional Perspectives to the global Debate on Climate Change Evaluation

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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I spoke to the President of the Cameroon Development Evaluation Association, Debazou Yantio upon my arrival here in Yaoundé for the 2014

New Report Calls for Private Sector Investment in Climate Adaptation

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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The World Economic Forum is over. As you might have expected, climate change was part of the discussion. An interesting report capturing the latest thinking on climate change adaptation and climate finance was launched during the forum in Davos.

Is climate change aid promoting greenhouse gas emissions?

Rob D. Van Den Berg
International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
President
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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the most prominent international financial mechanism supporting developing countries (and countries with economies in transition) on climate change.

Climate-Eval's New Look

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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Back in 2008, delegates to the Alexandria International Conference on Evaluation of Climate change and Development proposed the creation of a virtual knowledge exchange platform.

Report Urges GEF to Continue Investment in Transport to Cut CO2 Emissions

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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New York-based nonprofit, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) has urged the Global Environment Facility to maintain investment in the transportation sector at the current rate as a means of cutting down on

COP19: Compromise Deal Steadies Road to Paris in 2015

David Akana
African Development bank (AfDB)
Senior KM and Communication Specialist
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It might have taken an extra day, but it now seems it was worth it ? to strike a compromise agreement that has largely steadied the international negotaition process towards a universal and legally binding climate agreement in Paris in 2015.

How to spread new technology in agriculture: the importance of geographic conditions and learning-from-peers

Pedro Hemsley
cpi
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In business, it is unusual to find a technology that proves to be better and costs less than the one in use. In theory, that technology should spread like wildfire and quickly replace current production methods. If it doesn't, there is usually a barrier that prevents its spread.