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Jindra Cekan, PhD

Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

3 min readDec 29, 2023

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

6 min readNov 20, 2023

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The EU and Sustainability

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

5 min readJul 15, 2021

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

27 min readJun 27, 2021

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How well do Nordics & Netherlands Evaluate Sustainability?

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

13 min readJun 5, 2021

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

“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:

7 min readApr 11, 2021

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

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…

3 min readJan 22, 2021

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

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Jindra Cekan, PhD

Webinar: Lessons from Nordic / the Netherlands’ ex-post project evaluations of sustainability: 14…

Webinar: Lessons from Nordic / the Netherlands’ ex-post project evaluations: 14 Jan 2021

2 min readJan 10, 2021

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Webinar: Lessons from Nordic / the Netherlands’ ex-post project evaluations of sustainability: 14…

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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

Sustaining “Sustainable Development”

As a global development industry, we have almost no evidence of how (un)sustained the outcomes or impacts of 99% of our projects because…

6 min readApr 20, 2020

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Sustaining “Sustainable Development”

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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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