In honor of International Women's Day, this blog examines various interventions to reduce gender inequalities in education, health, social protection and sports.

GEI has recently partnered with Global Affairs Canada to launch the three-year Feminist Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation (FIME) project. The project focuses on a gender-transformative approach to strengthening M&E systems. 

In 2020, with support of CLEAR-AA, a GEI Implementing Partner, the Footprint Evaluation Initiative was given a valuable opportunity to demonstrate its approach in an evaluation at a national scale in Uganda.

As GEI begins planning this year's gLOCAL Evaluation Week, we reflect on the value that the event brings to participants. CLEAR-SA recently spoke with Good Business Lab (GBL), a not-for-profit labor innovation organization that has been an active partner of gLOCAL in South Asia.

The availability of trained local M&E professionals is one of the critical factors to strengthening monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems in developing countries.

Evaluation can help us to be more effective in curbing climate change and environmental degradation. But this requires evaluation to take a new, broader perspective.

The Footprint Evaluation Initiative is an international collaboration grounded on the premise that all evaluations should include consideration of environmental sustainability, even when this is not a stated goal of the intervention.

Takunda Chirau, Deputy Director of the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA), reflects on CLEAR-AA's journey to a systems-based approach for strengthening M&E in the countries where the Center works.

When we talk about a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system, what sort of system are we thinking about? Do we have a narrow or broad understanding? And how should we design, plan and implement a system that effectively supports monitoring, evaluation and evidence use?

If diagnostics are important to address the complexity in sports competitions, then they are certainly crucial in public policy – including the development of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems.