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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Funding and Accountability for sustainable projects?

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Funding and Accountability for sustainable projects? What are Sustainable Development Goals? ” the United Nations adopted the new post-2015 development agenda. The new proposals – to be achieved by 2030- set 17 new ‘sustainable’ development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Some, like Oxfam, see the SDGs as a country budgeting and prioritization as well as an…

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#Accountability #climate change #COVID #Evaluations #Ex-Post Evaluations #Foreign Aid #Private Sector #SDGs #Sustainable Development Goals

Valuing Voices Better Ex-Post Evaluation White Paper: Nordics & the Netherlands

Donors often talk about Sustainable Development, and we know they try. But do they return ex-post to evaluate it? Here are lessons from Ex-post Evaluation of Nordic ( Norway, Finland, Sweden & Denmark) and the Netherlands in our ValuingVoices White Papers. Executive Summary/ Abstract of the White Paper Ex-post completion or ex-post project evaluations are surprisingly rare given widespread…

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#ex-post evaluation #Netherlands #Nordics #programs #Sustainable Development

Who is accountable for the ‘sustained development’ of those who suffer, and for how long? US/Czech and Kenyan Views

Who is accountable for the ‘sustained development’ of those who suffer, and for how long? Some of the rarely discussed myths of ‘sustainable development is that the aid we donors and implementers bring will help everyone, and that recipient governments can take over once donors leave and that what we left when the project ended was sustainable. The fact that our ‘global development aid’ helps a…

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“What IS Sustainability?” It depends on whom you ask: OECD, the UN, or Harvard Business School

“What IS Sustainability?” It depends on whom you ask: OECD, the UN, or Harvard Business School Recently I’ve had conversations where I had to define which sustainability we were talking about. Was it: ex-post-project sustainability of outcomes and impacts, environmental sustainability, or business sustainability? Since I spend most of my time evaluating the ex-post sustained and emerging…

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#ex-post evaluation #OECD #OECD/ DAC #Resilience #Sustainability #Sustainable Development

Reblog USAID's Unpacking the Drivers of WASH Sustainability

Reblog USAID’s Unpacking the Drivers of WASH Sustainability

Reblog Unpacking the Drivers of WASH Sustainability In Nov 2019 I highlighted several water/ sanitation/ hygiene ex-posts happening at USAID’s E3 Water Bureau. They’ve just come up with a synthesis, which is important, both in learning and transparency for accountability. Kudos! My only quibble is that we don’t know the full scale after only 6 very different ex-posts. The authors Jones & Jordan’s…

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#ex-post evaluation #USAID #WASH #Water/ Sanitation

Reblog Ex-post Eval Week: Exiting For Sustainability by Jindra Cekan

Ex-post Eval Week: Exiting For Sustainability by Jindra Cekan Reblogged from AEA: https://aea365.org/blog/ex-post-eval-week-exiting-for-sustainability-by-jindra-cekan-2/ January 22, 2021 Jindra Cekan Hello. My name is Jindra Cekan, and I am the Founder and Catalyst of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting LLC. Our research, evaluation and advocacy network have been working on post-project…

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#evaluation #mitigation #Natural resources #SDGs #Sustainability

Reblog Ex-post Eval Week: Measuring sustainability post-program –go in and stay for the learning! By Holta Trandafili

Ex-post Eval Week: Measuring sustainability post-program –go in and stay for the learning! By Holta Trandafili Reblog from AEA: https://aea365.org/blog/ex-post-eval-week-measuring-sustainability-post-program-go-in-and-stay-for-the-learning-by-holta-trandafili/ January 21, 2021 Holta Trandafili Greetings, I am Holta Trandafili, a researcher and evaluator captivated by sustainability theories and…

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#ex-post evaluation #Realist Evaluation #Sustainability #Theories of change

ReBlog Ex-post Eval Week: Evaluating Peace for Sustainability by Peter Kimeu Ngui

Ex-post Eval Week: Evaluating Peace for Sustainability by Peter Kimeu Ngui Reblogged from https://aea365.org/blog/ex-post-eval-week-evaluating-peace-for-sustainability-by-peter-kimeu-ngui/ January 20, 2021 Peter Kimeu Ngui Peace is with you. My name is Peter Kimeu Ngui, the Founder and CEO of Decent Living Institute of Organic Farming with extensive experience on reflective peace and…

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#evaluation #ex-post evaluation #Peace #Sustainability

ReBlog Ex-Post Eval Week Tips for Conducting an Ex-Post Evaluation by Wendi Bevins

Repost: Reblog: Eval Week: Tips for Conducting an Ex-Post Evaluation by Wendi Bevins Published on the American Evaluation Association AEA365blog series https://aea365.org/blog/ex-post-eval-week-tips-for-conducting-an-ex-post-evaluation-by-wendi-bevins/ January 19, 2021 Wendi Bevins I am Wendi Bevins, and when my boss told me in 2017 that we were going to conduct an ex-post evaluation, I was…

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#ex-post evaluation #expectations #learning #stakeholders #strategy

Reblog:Ex-post Eval Week: Are we serious about project sustainability and exit? By Abu Ala Hasan

Ex-post Eval Week: Are we serious about project sustainability and exit? By Abu Ala Hasan Published on the American Evaluation Association AEA365blog series: https://aea365.org/blog/ex-post-eval-week-are-we-serious-about-project-sustainability-and-exit-by-abu-ala-hasan/ January 18, 2021 I am Abu Ala Hasan, an independent consultant. I am an anthropologist, have been working in the NGO sector…

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#Bangladesh #Exit strategies #NGOs #Sustainability

Upcoming Jan Webinar: Lessons from Nordic / the Netherlands' ex-post project evaluations: 14 Jan 2021

Upcoming Jan Webinar: Lessons from Nordic / the Netherlands’ ex-post project evaluations: 14 Jan 2021

Upcoming Webinar: Lessons from Nordic / the Netherlands’ ex-post project evaluations: 14 Jan 2021 In June-August 2020, a search was conducted through government databases of the four Nordic countries – Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark – and the Netherlands to identify ex-post evaluations of government-sponsored projects. The findings and recommendations for action are detailed in a four-part…

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#evaluation #ex-post evaluation #Finland #Sustainability #Sustainable Development #The Netherlands

Interview repost: Why Measure & Evaluate Corporate Sustainability Projects?

Interview repost: Why Measure & Evaluate Corporate Sustainability Projects? A CSR firm in Central Europe asked me to talk about sustainability, evaluation, and Corporate Social Responsibility. We had a terrific interview – please click thru to: https://www.besmarthead.com/cs/media/post/smartheadtalks-2-jindra-cekan-eng The topics we discussed include: * Sustainability in CSR involves value…

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#CSR #evaluation #SDGs #Sustainability #Sustainable Development

Reblog: ITAD/CRS "Lessons from an ex-post evaluation – and why we should do more of them"

Reblog: ITAD/CRS “Lessons from an ex-post evaluation – and why we should do more of them”

Reblog: ITAD/CRS “Lessons from an ex-post evaluation – and why we should do more of them” Reposted from: https://www.itad.com/article/lessons-from-an-ex-post-evaluation-and-why-we-should-do-more-of-them/ Even as evaluation specialists, rarely do we get the chance to carry out ex-post evaluations. We recently carried out an ex-post evaluation of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Expanding Financial…

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What makes it Difficult to Evaluate Projects Ex-post (WWF): Lessons from WWF

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) generously shared lessons from two ex-posts and in particular what they felt should not have been done in terms of organizational learning. They originally wanted to see whether ”the work done is sustainable and so to provide lessons for the implementing office, donor offices and the wider…

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Interactive Webinar: Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it! (Nov 6 2020)

Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it! (reposted from Medium https://jindracekan.medium.com/sustained-exit-prove-it-or-improve-it-702ac507e2a5)

Do we exit global development projects knowing our impacts are sustained? We hope so. As Professor Bea Rogers of Tufts said after evaluating 12 projects 2 years post-closure ( https://www.fsnnetwork.org/resource/exit-strategies-study), “ Hope is…

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Sustainability Ready: what it takes to support & measure lasting change webinar

On June 24th under GLocal’s UNConference, “Co-creating our future stories of hope and action”, Jindra Cekan, Holta Trandafili, and Isabella Jean presented their work on sustainability evaluations and exit strategies via local voices. We chaired a 2-hour discussion session on the following topics:

Sustainability of global development projects and exit from them,

The importance of valuing local…

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Sustaining "Sustainable 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 the ex-posts, we have evaluated 2-20 years after donor departure it is, learning from what was and was not sustained is vital before replication…

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#Agriculture #climate change #environment #evaluation #Ex-Post Evaluations #International Development #JICA #OECD/ DAC #Sustainability #USAID #Water/ Sanitation

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