Sustainable Solutions for
Excellent Impact
Prove it! Improve it! We are a Network of experts for Sustainable Development Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Advocacy. We believe country-led development with excellent sustained impacts comes from listening to participant voices during and long after projects end. Work with us!
Welcome
Respectful development includes input from the onset from participants and partners, collaborating to support what’s sustainable throughout implementation, and evaluating after closeout of projects and investments. Valuing Voices can help you do this.
Services
Concept note: Fostering Sustainability During and Long After Projects End
Valuing Voices offers the following to foster services for Sustained Impacts: Based on decades of experience in funding, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating and advocating for non-profit, for-profit, public and foundation clients in global development, plus 6 years of research on sustainability.
Publications/ Presentations
RECENT:
Presentations to Practical Action UK staff on Sustainability/ Impact and Ex-post Evaluations (2022)
Cekan J., Legro S. (2022) Can We Assume Sustained Impact? Verifying the Sustainability of Climate Change Mitigation Results. In: Uitto J.I., Batra G. (eds) Transformational Change for People and the Planet. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham.
“Promises made and promises unfulfilled: Focusing evaluations after COP26” 2022. in Evaluation, What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners
Adaptation Fund documents our work on ex-post sustainability and resilience research/guidance 2021
Recent Blog Posts
“Promises made and promises unfulfilled: Focusing evaluations after COP26” 2021’s Climate Conference reblog from the journal Evaluation
Reblogged from the journal EVALUATION,Volume: 28 issue: 1, page(s): 7-35, Article first published online: January 24, 2022; Issue published: January 1, 2022 Abstract for the Evaluation issue "What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners"...
Can We Assume Sustained Impact? Verifying the Sustainability of Climate Change Mitigation Results (reposting a book chapter)
So excited to have our chapter verifying the 'sustainability' of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund (GEF) funded projects through examining two tranches of evaluations. My co-writer colleague Susan Legro did a brilliant job pointing out GreenHouse Gasses (GHG)...
Follow our path on Ex-Post Sustainability and Resilience Seasonal Joy
Follow our path on Ex-Post Sustainability and Resilience Seasonal Joy Rarely do we get to teach, innovate, learn, and expand a hidden corner of one’s field. This is what is I am experiencing, and the Fund is sharing. Here is the Adaptation Fund’s ex-post project...