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Jindra Cekan, PhD

Grow the .002%

It seems like ‘fake news’ that after decades of global development so few evaluations would have peered back in time to see what was…

Oct 29

Grow the .002%

Oct 29

Evaluating global aid projects ex-post closure: Evaluability… and how-to via Sustainability…

How do we evaluate projects ex-post, and are all projects evaluable after donors leave? How do we learn from project documents to ascertain…

Jul 18, 2023

Evaluating global aid projects ex-post closure: Evaluability… and how-to via Sustainability…

Jul 18, 2023

Valuing Voices: Why The 2030 Agenda Starts with ‘Them’

Jindra Cekan, PhD, Carolien de Bruin and Peter Kimeu (published Feb 2018)

Nov 3, 2021

Valuing Voices: Why The 2030 Agenda Starts with ‘Them’

Nov 3, 2021

5 Ways to Foster Sustainability and Resilience to Climate Change

by Omar Abdou, M.A. and Jindra Cekan/ova, Ph.D

Oct 28, 2021

5 Ways to Foster Sustainability and Resilience to Climate Change

Oct 28, 2021

Aid providers: More puzzle pieces, including unexpected outcomes; ours is not the whole picture

When we did our first ex-post evaluation/ delayed final evaluation in 2006 in Niger for Lutheran World Relief (LWR) funded by the Bill &…

Sep 25, 2021

Aid providers: More puzzle pieces, including unexpected outcomes; ours is not the whole picture

Sep 25, 2021

Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it!

Do we exit global development projects knowing our impacts are sustained? We hope so. As Professor Bea Rogers of Tufts said after…

Oct 27, 2020

Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it!

Oct 27, 2020

“Impactful” Investments? Will investments change lives or just bottom lines?

Needs are growing in the developing world and blended finance[1], including Impact Investing[2], with the “intention to generate positive…

Mar 20, 2019

Mar 20, 2019

Holiday Hallelujahs and my Wish List for Sustained Impact(s)

There are six bright Hallelujahs on the sustained impact journey this Holiday. I’ve paired each of them by a wish, so appropriate this…

Dec 18, 2018

Holiday Hallelujahs and my Wish List for Sustained Impact(s)

Dec 18, 2018

Assuming Sustainability and Impact is Dangerous to Development (+ OECD/ DAC evaluation criteria)

We all do it; well, I used to do it too. I used to assume that if I helped my field staff and partners target and design funded projects…

Oct 23, 2018

Assuming Sustainability and Impact is Dangerous to Development (+ OECD/ DAC evaluation criteria)

Oct 23, 2018

Public and Private paths to Sustained Global Development Impacts

Six years. That’s how long ago I have been researching proof of sustained impact(s) through its ex-post project evaluation. Until now…

Sep 11, 2018

Public and Private paths to Sustained Global Development Impacts

Sep 11, 2018

Jindra Cekan, PhD

Jindra Cekan, PhD

Do global development projects have sustained impact? Maybe. Writer, speaker, evaluator, int’l development guru, forester, mother, giraffe-lover

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