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Opening for a Senior Evaluation Manager
CGIAR IAES is recruiting a Senior Evaluation Manager for Center External Reviews in Nairobi. Apply by 30 August 2026.
Evaluating Scaling Efforts: New Blog on BetterEvaluation Webpage
Scaling is one of the most used and least precisely defined concepts in international development.
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Nutrients in Search of a Household: Biofortification's Next Chapter Within CGIAR
SPIA's evidence base on biofortified crops shows that some innovations have enormous potential benefits — but mixed results on reach and adoption.
Working Smarter, Not Just Faster: How is CGIAR’s Evaluation Function Using AI Tools?
How CGIAR’s Evaluation Function is using AI to support coding, stress-testing, and quality checks—while keeping evaluative judgment human-led.
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George Theuri
Evaluation Analyst, IAES Evaluation Function
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Samriti Maharjan
Evaluation Analyst
What's Really Growing in Viet Nam's Rice Fields?
The first nationwide genetic survey of rice seeds in Viet Nam reveals important information about the adoption of improved rice varieties.
IAES hosted the CGIAR Joint Assurance Workshop to Strengthen Combined Assurance Across the Integrated Partnership
How can evaluation, science quality, audit, risk, and ethics work better together to strengthen assurance across CGIAR?
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Federica Bottamedi
Evaluation Outreach Specialist
Can AI Actually Understand Independent Evidence? We Put Three Platforms to Test
Widespread AI use without organizational clarity could be a manageable problem for low-stakes tasks. However, what happens when the outputs carry
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Swetha Ramachandran
Senior Officer, SPIA Use of Evidence
Thomas Griffin
Former Intern, CGIAR Standing Panel for Impact Assessment (SPIA)
What’s A Human To Do? A New Blog Series on AI Use Cases in CGIAR Advisory Bodies
A couple years ago, AI felt to me like the new blockchain. Ubiquitously discussed circa 2017 as the solution to potential lapses in credibility and
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