The use of OECD criteria in impact evaluations

During this webinar, we go over the OECD criteria and their use in impact evaluations. We discuss their role in evaluating development and humanitarian assistance and look intro how we can work having in mind these criteria; effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, impact, sustainability and coherence.

In summary, we explore:

Impact evaluation key considerations:

• Impact evaluation purpose
• Impact evaluation principles
• What is different in the Evaluation of Humanitarian Action?

Efficiently Working with OECD-DAC Criteria:

• Introduction and purpose of the OECD-DAC criteria
• Working with the 6 different criteria
• Example of best practices

View the presentation slides of the Webinar.

Is this Webinar for me?

• Are you working on impact evaluations or is this a field that interests you?

• Are you looking for a refresher on impact evaluations or the OECD-DAC criteria?

• Do you wish to ask questions about impact evaluations and the OECD criteria?

  Then, watch our webinar!

About the Speakers and ActivityInfo

Eliza Avgeropoulou earned her BSc from Athens University of Economics and Business, and her MSc degree in Economic Development and Growth from Lund University and Carlos III University, Madrid. She brings eight years of experience in M&E in international NGOs, including CARE, Innovations for Poverty Action and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The past five years, she has led the MEAL system design for various multi-stakeholders’ projects focusing on education, livelihoods, protection and cash. She believes that evidence-based decision making is the core of high quality program implementation. She now joins us as our M&E Implementation Specialist, bringing together her experience on the ground and passion for data-driven decision making to help our customers achieve success with ActivityInfo.

Victoria Manya has a diverse background and extensive expertise in data-driven impact, project evaluation, and organizational learning. She holds a Master's degree in local development strategies from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the African Studies Center at Leiden University. With over ten years of experience, Victoria has collaborated with NGOs, law firms, SaaS companies, tech-enabled startups, higher institutions, and governments across three continents, specializing in research, policy, strategy, knowledge valorization, evaluation, customer education, and learning for development. Her previous roles as a knowledge valorization manager at the INCLUDE platform and as an Organizational Learning Advisor at Sthrive B.V. involved delivering high- quality M&E reports, trainings, ensuring practical knowledge management, and moderating learning platforms, respectively. Today, as a Customer Education Specialist at ActivityInfo, Victoria leverages her experience and understanding of data leverage to assist customers in successfully deploying ActivityInfo.

ActivityInfo is an information management platform perfect for monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian coordination and case management. For more than a decade, the ActivityInfo team has been supporting humanitarian operations and development programmes worldwide catering for emerging needs for data collection and analysis. UN agencies, INGOS and NGOs use the platform to centralize and standardize data collection, display the impact of their activities while maintaining complete control on data access and changes. Originally developed for UNICEF’s emergency program in eastern DRC, ActivityInfo is a service provided by BeDataDriven a company based in The Hague, Netherlands.