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Tuesday, 23 September 2025
8:00 am - 9:15 am ET
How can evaluation be a force for peace and resilience building amidst global instability?
The second Future of Evaluation dialogue on 23 September 2025, held in observance of the International Day of Peace (21 September), delved into the critical role of evaluation in navigating the complexities of global instability and humanitarian crises and fostering peace and resilience. This dialogue discussed adaptive and context-sensitive evaluation, which, by adhering to the "Do No Harm" principle, offers a blueprint for more responsive and ethical evaluation everywhere.
The session also covered the use of mixed methods and innovative data sources to understand complex environments, demonstrating the broader shift toward integrating technology and diverse data into all evaluative practices. It also focused on locally led evaluation, underscoring the importance of community participation for both effective peacebuilding and for shaping evaluation to be more equitable in the present and the future. The dialogue also addressed capacity building for evaluators working in these challenging contexts.
Moderator
Silvia Salinas Mulder is an independent consultant and evaluator and the CEO of catalytic-A.
She is a Bolivian anthropologist, feminist evaluator, and senior strategy consultant with 35 years of experience. Silvia leads transformation-oriented evaluations addressing social norms, culture, and power to advance rights, inclusive well-being, justice, and peace. A global voice in feminist and decolonial evaluation, she chaired ReLAC, IOCE, and EvalPartners, and founded catalytic-A to foster social and organizational innovation. Connect with Silvia on LinkedIn.
Panelists
Mohib Iqbal is is a Principal Evaluation Specialist at Insights Lab International. He previously served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Economics and Peace, where he led research and evaluation projects across fragile and conflict-affected countries. He has directed large-scale evaluations for the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and national governments, and has published extensively on the nexus of peace, evaluation, and economics. In 2022, his contribution to evaluation was recognized with an Australian Evaluation Society award in the evaluation system category. Mohib is also an active member of the Afghan Evaluation Society and the Asia-Pacific Evaluation Association. Connect with Mohib on LinkedIn and X.
Hur Hassnain is an evaluation specialist, author, and treasurer at the International Evaluation Academy. Based in Brussels, Belgium, he is the senior evaluation specialist for the European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, Directorate-General for Enlargement & Eastern Neighbourhood, Directorate-General for Middle East and North Africa, and Service for Foreign Policy Instruments external service on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Design for External Action supporting the headquarter units, and over a hundred EU Delegations around the world (since 2019). He has conducted and led evaluations for civil society, multilateral and bilateral development organisations in a range of thematic areas such as gender equality, education, rural development, agriculture, environment, and women’s economic empowerment. Connect with Hur on LinkedIn.
Kai Brand-Jacobsen serves as Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Government’s Independent Evaluation Department for Norwegian Development Cooperation and is the Co-Chair of the OECD-DAC EvalNet Working Group on Conflict and Fragility. He has nearly 30 years experience working in peacebuilding and peace support processes, and more than two decades in large-scale evaluation processes in conflict and war-affected contexts across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Until 2024 he served as the President of the Romanian Peace Institute and Director of the Department of Peace Operations. His current focus areas include evaluation in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, decolonisation of evaluation practice, and improving utilization of evaluation results in policy and practice. Connect with Kai on LinkedIn.
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