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Latest Blogs

• What makes it Difficult to Evaluate Projects Ex-post: Lessons from WWF 
• Interactive Webinar: Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it! (Nov 6 2020)
• Sustainability Ready: what it takes to support & measure lasting change webinar
• Sustainable Exit Strategies: USAID vs. EU
• Sustaining “Sustainable Development”
• Wishing for ex-post evaluation Christmas Lights rather than Needles in Haystacks
• Learning from a river of ex-post project evaluations, tools and guidance… Thanks USAID!
• Our Accountability for the SDGs
• Implementing, Scaling and Planning for Aid Exit and Sustainability
• “Impactful” Investments? Will investments change lives or just bottom lines?
• Holiday Hallelujahs and my Wish List for Sustained Impact(s)
• Assuming Sustainability and Impact is Dangerous to Development (+ OECD/DAC evaluation criteria)
• Public and Private paths to Sustained Global Development Impacts
• Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us
• Investing in Youth for Project Effectiveness and Sustainability
• Reblog: The Name of the Game is “Sustainability” but Does the Last Player Count?
• Local Accountability and Transparency… During and Post Project?
• Impact Investing – International Development’s New Holy Grail?
• Can’t wait to learn from post-project sustainability evaluation? If not why?
• Building the Evidence Base for Post Project Evaluation: A report to the Faster Forward Fund
• Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices? – The Solutions Journal
• How ‘new’ are our projects… and who is aiming at the right outcomes?
• Leading in Challenging Times: Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation (SEIEs)- reposted from Medium.com
• Making up your mind. Prioritizing and making it happen
• Embedding Sustainability Everywhere – All Five Slices Now
• Presenting Lessons on (post-project) Sustained and Emerging Impact Evaluations from the U.S. AEA Conference
• Towards responsible donor exiting strategies and practices: Reblog from Tshikululu
• Sustaining projects during and after Implementation: Does gender count?
• Maximizing what we’ve got… Time is now!
• Missing Link: Sustained and Emerging Impact Evaluation (reblog from BetterEvaluation.org)
• PARTICIPATION BY ALL: The Key To Sustainability of CRS/ Niger’s Food Security Project
• What happens after the project ends?  Lessons about Funding, Assumptions and Fears (Part 3)
• What happens after the project ends?  Country-national ownership lessons from post-project sustained impacts evaluations (Part 2)
• What happens after the project ends?  Lessons from post-project sustained impacts evaluations (Part 1)
• Learning about Sustainability and Exit Strategies from USAID’s Food Assistance Projects
• Sustained Impact post-project (ex-post)? Little proof at 3ie
• Who is responsible for sustaining development?
• The Disruptive Potential of Feedback (reblog from NonprofitChronicles.com)
• Sustainable Development Goals and Foreign Aid– How Sustainable and Accountable to Whom?  Reposting Blog from LinkedIn Pulse
• Face our fears! Learn from failure…