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New Year, new sustainable us?

NEW YEAR, NEW SUSTAINABLE US?

Dec 31, 2024

New Year, new sustainable us?

Dec 31, 2024

Un-sustaining ‘Sustainable Development’ via USAID shuttering and other US learning losses

The draconian cuts to USAID in February 2025 ($40 billion in currently allocated aid assistance, $63 billion in 2024, $71 billion in 2023…

Feb 17

Feb 17

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…

May 16, 2024

Grow the .002%

May 16, 2024

Valuing and implementing for ex-post sustainability, evaluating natural capital and externalities

2023 ends with two sets of excellent sustainability practices coming out of Valuing Voices. There are also unanswered valuation questions…

Dec 29, 2023

Valuing and implementing for ex-post sustainability, evaluating natural capital and externalities

Dec 29, 2023

The EU and Sustainability

At the Prague European Summit I was invited to last week, sustainability was on the program three times. The most relevant session was…

Nov 20, 2023

The EU and Sustainability

Nov 20, 2023

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Funding and Accountability for sustainable projects?

What are Sustainable Development Goals? ” the United Nations adopted the new post-2015 development agenda. The new proposals — to be…

Jul 15, 2021

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Funding and Accountability for sustainable projects?

Jul 15, 2021

How well do Nordics & Netherlands Evaluate Sustainability?

Donors often talk about #SustainableDevelopment, and we know they try. But do they return #expost project to #evaluate it? Here are lessons…

Jun 27, 2021

How well do Nordics & Netherlands Evaluate Sustainability?

Jun 27, 2021

Who is accountable for the ‘sustained development’ of those who suffer, and for how long?

Some of the rarely discussed myths of ‘sustainable development is that the aid we donors and implementers bring will help everyone, and…

Jun 5, 2021

Who is accountable for the ‘sustained development’ of those who suffer, and for how long?

Jun 5, 2021

“What IS Sustainability?” It depends on whom you ask: OECD, the UN, or Harvard Business School

Recently I’ve had conversations where I had to define which sustainability we were talking about. Was it:

Apr 11, 2021

“What IS Sustainability?” It depends on whom you ask: OECD, the UN, or Harvard Business School

Apr 11, 2021

Ex-post Eval Week: Exiting For Sustainability by Jindra Cekan, PhD

Hello. My name is Jindra Cekan, and I am the Founder and Catalyst of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting LLC. Our research, evaluation and…

Jan 22, 2021

Ex-post Eval Week: Exiting For Sustainability by Jindra Cekan, PhD

Jan 22, 2021

Jindra Cekan, PhD

Jindra Cekan, PhD

Do our development projects have sustained impact? Maybe (hint: ask local participants). Writer, speaker, evaluator, int’l developmt guru, mother, giraffe-lover

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