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08/05/2014

Watch live on Aug. 7th: M&E Roundtable “Empowering Adolescent Girls” http://ow.ly/zZ2Tq

08/04/2014

El Centro CLEAR para América Latina, Jacobs, Cordova & Asociados y el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) invitan a participar a nuestro curso ejecutivo sobre Evaluación Previa de Impacto Regulatorio (EIR). El curso tendra lugar en la sede del Centro CIDE a partir del 27 de Septiembre hasta el 3 de Octubre, 2014. Inscripciones abiertas hasta el 5 de Septiembre. Para mas informacion, visita: http://www.clear-la.cide.edu/node/156

07/16/2014

"Are Evaluations Ever Read, Ever Used?" with Bob Berg, Trustee, World Academy of Art and Science via DME for Peace

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The Peacebuidling Evaluation Consortium (PEC) and the Network for Peacebuilding Evaluation (NPE) are pleased to haved hosted the April 17 Thursday Talk on "Are Evaluations Ever Read, Ever Used?" with Bob Berg, Trustee, World Academy of Art and Science. If you missed the talk, please check the resour…

07/07/2014

APPLY BY 07/18! 2 Vacancies at CLEAR Francophone Africa: Director & M&E Technical Specialist

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Wits School of Governance (WSG) through the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA), invites qualified individuals of substantive stature to apply for the following executive positions on a three year renewable contract basis at a market
related remuneration package.

» Two positions at CLEAR -AA -University of the Witwatersrand – Wits School of Governance | Regional Centres for Learning on Evaluation and Results

07/07/2014

Great resources, associations, how to learn new skills, and more. "What all evaluators should know" by South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association

What all evaluators should know

06/18/2014

Day 4 from CLEAR South Asia : Building M&E Skills & Knowledge via American Evaluation Association

Hello – My name is Gemma Stevenson. I am Associate Director for the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) where we run rigorous research projects and deliver evaluation trainings as part of CLEAR South Asia.

06/17/2014

Day 3 from CLEAR Anglophone Africa: Africa’s National Movement. via American Evaluation Association

Tim Clynick, Acting Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results in Anglophone Africa, (University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ghana Institute of Public Administration and the Kenya School of Government)

06/17/2014

Day 2 from CLEAR South Asia: Designing Courses for M&E Capacity Building via American Evaluation Association

We are Diva Dhar (Program Director) and Urmy Shukla (Capacity Building Manager) at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, based at J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research.

06/17/2014

Day 1 from CLEAR East Asia: Performance Mgmt Systems, A Growing Area for Int'l via American Evaluation Association

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06/17/2014

Catch CLEAR this week on AEA365 Daily Blog. http://aea365.org/blog/ via American Evaluation Association

Greetings to the aea365 community. We are Kelly Washburn and Julie Carpineto from The Institute for Community Health in Cambridge, MA. We are the local evaluators of an urban high school-based teen pregnancy prevention program in Greater Boston. We would like to share an example of a creative eval…

06/03/2014

Better Evaluation Blog: Using in programme design – a funder’s perspective, by Stephen Porter, Evaluation Advisor, DFID.

"Evidence has become a mainstay of development programming and consequently the funding review process. With many large granting organisations emphasising what they call ‘an evidence-based approach’, increasingly sophisticated demands for evidence to support proposals are going to be required."

03rd June 2014 by Stephen PorterStephen Porter is Results and Evaluation Advisor for the Education and Partnerships team at DFID. In this blog he gives us a valuable insight into what a funder might be thinking as they review a development programme proposal and how he uses evaluation evidence to ma…

05/14/2014

: Evaluation on Prime Time TV: "Four evaluators walk into a TV studio. What happens next says a lot about the field’s growing influence." via Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)

Four evaluators walk into a TV studio. What happens next says a lot about the field’s growing influence.   During a recent visit to South Africa I found myself in a surprising situation: on TV