Blog: International Development
Sustaining “Sustainable Development”
Sustaining "Sustainable Development"? As a global development industry, we have almost no evidence of how (un)sustained the outcomes or impacts of 99% of our projects because we have never returned to evaluate them. But from early indications based on...
Implementing, Scaling and Planning for Aid Exit and Sustainability
Reposted from: https://medium.com/@jindracekan/implementing-scaling-and-planning-for-aid-exit-and-sustainability-b1b92e70fb36?postPublishedType=initial Rarely do funders return to evaluate (ex-post) what lasts after aid projects end, but when they do, we can find...
Assuming Sustainability and Impact is Dangerous to Development (+ OECD/DAC evaluation criteria)
Assuming Sustainability and Impact is Dangerous to Development (+ OECD/ DAC evaluation criteria) We all do it; well, I used to do it too. I used to assume that if I helped my field staff and partners target and design funded projects well enough, and try...
Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us
Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us Global development aid has a problem which may already affect impact investing as well. It is that we think it's really all about us (individuals, wealthy donors and INGO implementers) not all of us (you, me,...
Reblog: The Name of the Game is “Sustainability” but Does the Last Player Count?
The Name of the Game is “Sustainability” but Does the Last Player Count? by John Lowrie, Reblog from https://www.scribd.com/document/11621086/The-Name-of-the-Game-is-Sustainability-but-Does-the-Last-Player-Count-by-John-Lowrie Today, it is obligatory to answer the...
Impact Investing – International Development’s New Holy Grail?
Impact Investing - International Development's New Holy Grail? There are so many things I love about the private sector such as Forbes 18 Dec Quote of the Day: "You’re going to be wrong a fair amount of times. So the issue is, how do you be wrong well?"...
Leading in Challenging Times: Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation (SEIEs)- reposted from Medium.com
Leading in Challenging Times: Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation (SEIEs) Some American organizations are retrenching, focusing more attention on domestic rather than international programming. Some are pulling back from critique of international...
Embedding Sustainability Everywhere – All Five Slices Now
Embedding Sustainability Everywhere - All Five Slices Now It has been a tumultuous year, and next year does not look like we will have much stability as a respite. As domestic concerns grow larger in two huge economies, US and UK, the question of the...
Presenting Lessons on (post-project) Sustained and Emerging Impact Evaluations from the U.S. AEA Conference
Presenting Lessons on (post-project) Sustained and Emerging Impact Evaluations from the U.S. AEA Conference Dear readers, attached please find the Barking up a Better Tree: Lessons about SEIE Sustained and Emerging Impact Evaluation presentation we did...
Sustaining projects during and after Implementation: Does gender count?
Sustaining projects during and after Implementation: Does gender count? Rutere Kagendo from Ronto Research and Valuing Voices Gender as a concept is one of the many kinds of indicators of change measured in development projects. However, like many others, its...
PARTICIPATION BY ALL: The Key To Sustainability of CRS/ Niger’s Food Security Project
PARTICIPATION BY ALL: The Key To Sustainability of CRS/ Niger’s Food Security Project Valuing Voices is delighted to share our sustainability evaluation of Catholic Relief Service Niger’s PROSAN project [1]. This project that ran from 2006-2012 in Niger...
Jindra Cekan, Ph.D. has used participatory methods for 30 years to connect with participants, ranging from villagers in Africa, Central/ Latin America and the Balkans to policy makers and Ministers around the world for her international clients. Their voices have informed the new Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation, other M&E, stakeholder analysis, strategic planning, knowledge management and organizational learning.