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Resources - 02nd February 2022
The information provided was supplied by Alice Macfarlan. In this journal article, Jane Davidson advocates for better evaluation practice by picking apart four common practices in academic and social research that evaluators might inappropriately apply when working in the field of evaluation.
Resources - 02nd February 2022
This blog by Stephanie Evergreen curates a number of examples of engaging executive summaries and evaluation reports. The focus is on highlighting effective visual design of these reporting formats. This resource and the following information was contributed by Alice Macfarlan.
Resources - 30th November 2021
This guide outlines a step-by-step participatory process for developing a performance story report in the context of ‘performance story evaluation’ and natural resource management, but can be used for monitoring and in other contexts.
Blog entry - 29th November 2021
This blog by Jo Hall and Patricia Rogers provides an update on the Global Partnership for Better Monitoring project. Earlier this year, we published a blog asking for your input into a project to improve our collective understanding and practice of the monitoring function. This project (the Global Partnership for Better Monitoring, or, 'BetterMonitoring'), is being run in partnership with UNICEF and others and is now approaching the close of Phase 1.
Resources - 26th November 2021
This Evaluation Practice Exchange Seminar was organized by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) in cooperation with the Footprint Evaluation project of BetterEvaluation and the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). The session explores how evaluations, where the evaluand is not an environmental program, can take full account of the environment, drawing on practical experiences from the Footprint Evaluation project and considerations from non-environmental agencies.
Resources - 02nd November 2021
This paper documents a case study of using machine learning and meta-ethnography techniques to synthesise and draw lessons from 578 evaluations. This paper is part of the BetterEvaluation Innovation Working Paper series.
