Presentations &
Publications
Jindra’s Videos
Welcome to Valuing Voices… ‘They’ are ‘us’; how do we do excellent development programming as partners? Hope you enjoy our videos!
Nordic Climate Finance Summit Keynote Speaker: “Social impact and Climate justice and Environmental Impact” 2025
Incorporating Sustainability Lessons into Evaluation Frameworks
SmartHeadTalks Interview
Evaluating projects Ex post & Emerging sustainability and resilience
Part 1
Evaluating projects Ex post & Emerging sustainability and resilience, 2a
Evaluating projects Ex post & Emerging sustainability and resilience, 2b
Recent Presentations (selected)
- Cekan and Spearman, “From Return on Investment to Return on Environment: Investing in a Sustainable Planet,” presented at the International Conference on Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience, Paris, November 2026.
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Prague Climate Week, for the Association for Sustainable Business with Change for the Better, presented on Sustainable Forestry in the Czech Republic, 2026
- British Embassy in Prague, “Sustainable Forestry” presentation, part of their Sustainability Working Group, 2026
- International Society for the Systems Sciences “Sustainability” 2026
- Global Rethinking Finance Collaborative (GFRC Geneva) Futures Fair presentation with Meg Spearman: “Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet: Rethinking Impact Measurement” 2025
- Nordic Climate Finance Summit Keynote Speaker: “Social impact and Climate justice and Environmental Impact” 2025
- European Evaluation Society Conference both “The Theory and Practice of Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience” and “€Valuing Nature’s Return on Investment: An Avenue for Sustainable Development?” 2024
- Oxford Policy Management: “Ex-Post Evaluations” 2024
- Charles University Prague, “M&E for Capacity Development” 2023
- Meghalaya Evaluation Summer School, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “Thinking Explicitly about Sustainability up Front” 2022
- European Evaluation Society Conference “Evaluation at a Watershed; Actions and Shifting Paradigms for Challenging Times” 2022
- European Evaluation Society Conference “How to know about longer-term effects from Adaptation Initiatives” 2021
- University of Toronto Canada Evaluation Centre, “Planning for Sustainability: Towards a role for Evaluations and Measurement in planning exit strategies” 2021
- “Sustainability results/ Dopady udržitelnosti v byznysu” (česky) webinař 2021
- “Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it!” Webinar 1 2020
- Sustaining All of our Hard Work, Webinar, Vienna Evaluation Network, 1 Oct 2020
PUBLICATIONS
IMPORTANT GUIDANCE
RE: EX-POST EVALUATION:
Adaptation Fund Sustainability Training Materials for Evaluating Ex-post Sustainability and Reslience to Cimate shocks: Toolkit for Ex-post Sustainability Evaluation of Adaptation (April 2025) and three videos at the top of this page
Integrated Approach to ex-post Impact Assessment (Australian Center for International Agricultural Research) (undated but after 2020)
2023-05-16-Ex-post-training-material_Part-1-1 2023-05-16-Ex-post-training-material_Part-2 (1) 2023-06-09-Ex-post-training-methods (1) 23-03-31-Ex-post-framework-table-for-data-input (1) 2023-06-09-Ex-post-fieldwork-handout (1)
2023-05-16-Ex-post-training-material_Part-2 (1)
2023-06-09-Ex-post-training-methods (1)
23-03-31-Ex-post-framework-table-for-data-input (1)
2023-06-09-Ex-post-fieldwork-handout (1)
Preconditions to consider for doing an SEIE either at project end or during project design and implementation by Valuing Voices: Evaluability Checklists (2017)
Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation (SEIE) overview of a new thematic approach to post-project/ ex-post evaluation SEIE Guidance
Adaptation Fund Ex-post Evaluation process and training for sustainability and resilience to climate change (2021)
Building the Evidence Base for Post-Project Evaluation, a report to Michael Scriven’s Faster Forward Fund (2017)
Rogers and Coates Sustaining Development: A Synthesis of Results from a Four-Country Study of Sustainability and Exit Strategies (2016)
World Health Organization ex-post project manual! They drew on our research and made a great guide: UN’s WHO Practical Guidance for Conducting Post-Project Evaluations in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (2019)
Tips for Ex Post Evaluations of International Development Projects by LWR & WV (2020)
Project Concern International Resource Guide for Enhancing the Potential for Sustainable Impact (2014)
Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation (SEIE) overview of new thematic approach to post-project/ ex-post evaluation SEIE Guidance
Evaluating the Sustainability of Health Programs: A Literature Review. African Evaluation Journal, by Ishola and Cekan (2019).
Defining ‘success’: Increasing women’s incomes, increasing peace: unexpected lessons from Niger (2013)
USAID Ex-post Evaluation Discussion Note (2021)
One of my videos presenting on ex-post project at University of Toronto 2017*
International Year of Evaluation Cekan EvalStory
Our Youtube videos ValuingVoices videos