Global Recognition Highlights Cloneshouse’s Leadership in Empowering Young Evaluators
Cloneshouse has been honored as a Youth in Evaluation Super Champion for 2025, recognizing its outstanding commitment to youth engagement in evaluation practices across the globe. This global recognition was conferred by the Eval4Action campaign team following a review of self-assessments submitted by 56 organizations worldwide, using the Youth in Evaluation standards. This initiative celebrates organisations at the forefront of fostering meaningful youth engagement in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).
The announcement was made today at the Summit for the Future of Evaluation, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where Cloneshouse was formally recognized among other international champions.
“At Cloneshouse, we believe that young people are not only the future of evaluation—they are the present. We’ve prioritized youth-led initiatives, co-creation, and capacity-building that allow young evaluators to lead, learn, and make meaningful contributions.
This award belongs to every young person who has partnered with us to deliver impactful work, and to the Eval4Action campaign for creating a global space where youth voices are valued.”
— Noelle Uloko, Chief Operating Officer, Cloneshouse Nigeria, in her speech upon receiving the award.
Adding to the event’s significance, Marco Segone, Director of the UNFPA Independent Evaluation Office, highlighted the need for evaluation to remain dynamic and people-centered. He shared during his vision statement for the future of evaluation:
“My vision for evaluation is that it’s responsive. Responsive to the constantly changing external environment by those in the internal environment. Responsive means listen to everybody, from the top leaders to the community-based, to the indigenous people, to communities, etc. 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.”
The “Super Champion” status is awarded to organizations that score above 85% against the Youth in Evaluation standards, criteria that assess how well organizations promote youth leadership, inclusion, and participation in evaluation processes and decision-making.
“This recognition reflects our intentional effort to place young voices at the center of evaluation practice,” said Oludotun Babayemi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cloneshouse. “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.”
As a Super Champion, Cloneshouse joins a global community of organizations paving the way for a more inclusive and future-oriented evaluation ecosystem. This aligns with the organization’s ongoing mission to build a new generation of evaluators through initiatives like the Cloneshouse African Internship Programme (CAIP), Cloneshouse European Internship Programme (CEIP), and “YouthPrep” – an established program that fosters youth development, employment, and leadership, particularly among African youth in challenging and fragile contexts.
Notably, in 2024, Cloneshouse also received global recognition as both the Emerging Super Champion for upholding the Youth in Evaluation standards and as a Champion for Advancing Young Professionals in Evaluation Jobs, further underscoring its consistent dedication to youth-centered evaluation practice.
This 2025 Super Champion award reinforces Cloneshouse’s leadership in youth-driven development and purpose-led Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL).
