Evaluating the Evaluators: Some Lessons from a Recent World Bank Self-Evaluation

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

February 21, 2012 blog posting by Johannes Linn, at Brookings Found via @WorldBank_IEG tweet "The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recently published a self-evaluation of its activities. Besides representing current thinking among evaluation experts at the World Bank, it also more broadly reflects some of the strengths and gaps in the ...

The Big Push forward: The Australian Debate (Oct 2011)

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

October 26, 2011 by Chris Roche. On 19 October 2011, Oxfam Australia hosted a ‘Big Push Forward‘ event in Melbourne with the co-conveners of this initiative – Rosalind Eyben and Irene Guijt. Sixty development practitioners, including AusAid staff and academics came together to discuss whether the concerns voiced by the Big ...

Horizontal Evaluation: Fostering Knowledge Sharing and Program Improvement within a Network

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Authors: Thiele, Graham; Devaux, Andre; Velasco, Claudio; Horton, Douglas American Journal of Evaluation, v28 n4 p493-508 2007 Abstract: Horizontal evaluation combines self-assessment and external evaluation by peers. Papa Andina, a regional network that works to reduce rural poverty in the Andean region by fostering innovation in potato production and marketing, has used ...

Peer Review: A Tool for Co-operation and Change

Wednesday, September 11th, 2002

(from OECD DAC website) This paper, which has been prepared by Fabrizio Pagani with the assistance of colleagues in the Legal Directorate and contributions from other Services and Directorates, examines the practice of peer review and peer pressure in the context of international organisations. In particular, the paper studies the experience ...