Firm Named Youth in Evaluation Super Champion for 2025

Cloneshouse Nigeria, an organisation that uses technology and innovation to provide monitoring and evaluation services, has been named a 2025 Youth in Evaluation Super Champion for its outstanding commitment to youth engagement in evaluation practices across the globe. This award, which was conferred by Eval4Action following a thorough assessment of 56 applications around the world, […]

Cloneshouse Nigeria, an organisation that uses technology and innovation to provide monitoring and evaluation services, has been named a 2025 Youth in Evaluation Super Champion for its outstanding commitment to youth engagement in evaluation practices across the globe.

This award, which was conferred by Eval4Action following a thorough assessment of 56 applications around the world, is aimed at celebrating and motivating organisations that are putting in a lot of effort to promote meaningful young engagement in the monitoring and evaluation environment.

According to Cloneshouse’s founder and CEO, Oludotun Babayemi, this recognition demonstrates his organisation’s deliberate commitment to prioritise young voices in evaluation methods.

“We believe that youth are not just beneficiaries but co-creators of knowledge who can drive transformational change in how development is measured and improved,” he said.

Uloko Noelle, Chief Operating Officer of Cloneshouse Nigeria, who accepted the award on the organisation’s behalf, dedicated it to all of the young people who have worked with them to deliver impactful work, as well as the Eval4Action campaign, which has created a global space where youth voices are valued.

“We’ve prioritised youth-led initiatives, co-creation, and capacity-building that allow young evaluators to lead, learn, and make meaningful contributions,” she stated during her acceptance address at the Summit for the Future of Evaluation in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Cloneshouse Nigeria, Noelle elaborated, chose to dedicate the prize to youngsters because it believes they are not only the future of evaluation but also the present.

She continued by saying that her organisation’s emphasis on youth-led initiatives —which provide young evaluators the opportunity to lead, learn, and contribute meaningfully—reflects this belief.

In his remarks, Marco Segone, Director of the UNFPA Independent Evaluation Office, stressed the need for evaluation to remain dynamic and people-centered.

He stated that his vision for evaluation is for it to be responsive to the continuously changing external environment by those in the internal environment, which includes listening to everyone, from top leaders to community-based organisations to indigenous people.

“And to do that, we need to be adaptable; adaptation is key to it, so that we can focus on what matters the most in human relationships,” Segone asserts.

The “Super Champion” status is awarded to organisations that score above 85% against the Youth in Evaluation standards, criteria that assess how well organisations promote youth leadership, inclusion, and participation in evaluation processes and decision-making.