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Jindra Cekan, PhD

Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

3 min readJul 18, 2023

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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

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

6 min readNov 3, 2021

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

5 Ways to Foster Sustainability and Resilience to Climate Change

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

6 min readOct 28, 2021

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5 Ways to Foster Sustainability and Resilience to Climate Change

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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 &…

6 min readSep 25, 2021

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

3 min readOct 27, 2020

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Sustained Exit? Prove it or Improve it!

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

“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…

8 min readMar 20, 2019

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

8 min readDec 18, 2018

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

5 min readOct 23, 2018

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

8 min readSep 11, 2018

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Public and Private paths to Sustained Global Development Impacts

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AID HAS A PROBLEM WHICH MAY ALREADY AFFECT IMPACT INVESTING AS WELL.

6 min readMay 17, 2018

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Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us

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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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