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02/07/2022

Setting resolutions for a New Year...

We typically shy away from making New Year’s resolutions. Making, and sharing, them publicly holds one accountable to pursue and fulfill them. If you’re an evaluation geek, resolutions come with a lot of extra baggage. We fight strong urges to define goals, identify smart indicators, establish a...

08/09/2020

Happy Women's Day! May this be our commitment to ourselves, current & future generations of women!

05/18/2020

The state of hunger in South Africa...

08/12/2017

http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/social-investment-good-not-so-good/finance/article/1438946

Social investment has yet to justify the bold claims once made for it, but has it proved to be a failure? Liam Kay canvasses opinion from the sector

08/10/2017

08/09/2017

Transformation is certainly needed, but can we invest resources to evaluate whether our efforts are truly reaping the outcomes we intended when transformation programme's were designed?
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-08-07-transformation-will-help-us-move-forward-not-backwards/ #.WYlRi4R97IU

Transformation is not a bad thing. It just means changing the way things are. We should all chip in. This is how one community in Masiphumelele plans on doing just that.

08/08/2017

Impact investing is here to stay?! Are you investing in impact?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/26/investing/millennial-impact-investing/index.html

The overwhelming majority of young, wealthy millennials believe that impact investing is important to their decisions, according to a new survey.

08/07/2017

Re-defining life satisfaction and happiness? Is it also applicable in the developing world context?
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/24/health/time-famine-stress-happiness-study/index.html

Making a time-saving purchase, no matter your income level, is linked to greater life satisfaction, a new study finds.

08/05/2017

Money does buy happiness, depending on how you define happiness!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154913228663067&id=6651543066

Hint: It's nothing fancy.

08/04/2017

One of the most rigorous evaluations if judged on evaluation design and evidence that will be collected to determine impact. We certainly need many more of this type of evaluation around
https://vimeo.com/225970597

A short film about the evaluation of the ICS/ Agrics parenting and agribusiness intervention to farmer groups in rural Tanzania, funded by the UBS Optimus Foundation.…