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  • Have Development Evaluators Been Fighting the Last War… And If So, What is to be Done?

    This article, written by Robert Picciotto for the IDS Bulletin (Volume 45 Number 6), argues that evaluators who wish to achieve high-quality evaluation standards must draw upon a range of methods and tools to complete the ta
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  • Validation workshop

    A validation workshop is a meeting that brings together evaluators and key stakeholders to review an evaluation's findings.
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  • QuIP in action: Save the Children case study

    This resource provides an example of the use of the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) approach in evaluations of Save the Children's programmes.
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  • Análisis comparativo cualitativo

    El Análisis Comparativo Cualitativo (QCA, por sus siglas en inglés) es un enfoque de evaluación que impulsa el razonamiento causal examinando la forma en que diferentes condiciones contribuyen a un alcance.
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  • Contribution analysis: An approach to exploring cause and effect

    This brief from the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC) explores contribution analysis and how it can be used to provide credible assessments of cause and effect.
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  • Comparing QuIP with thirty other approaches to impact evaluation

    This resource outlines how the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) compares to 30 other impact evaluation approaches. 
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  • Cracking causality in complex policy contexts

    This blog post addresses the challenge of making credible causal claims and discusses experiences from developing the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP). Author James Copestake
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  • Bias reduction

    Bias reduction involves identifying possible sources of bias and taking steps to reduce it. This is one way of improving the validity of an evaluation. Types of bias include:
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  • Transferability

    Transferability involves presenting findings in a way that they can be applied in other contexts or settings, considering the local culture and context to enhance the utility and reach of evaluation insights.
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  • El cambio más significativo

    El enfoque del Cambio Más Significativo (CMS) implica generar y analizar recuentos personales de cambios y decidir cuál es el más significativo – y por qué.
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  • Contribution analysis: A promising method for assessing advocacy's impact

    The paper provides a background about contribution analysis and a summary of the steps involved in carrying out the method.
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  • Upfront evaluation design

    An upfront evaluation design is done before or near the beginning of the evaluation and then implemented as designed or as revised at the end of the inception period.
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  • Human rights and gender equality

    Human rights and gender equality refer to the extent to which an evaluation adequately addresses human rights and gender in its design, conduct, and reporting.
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  • How to manage an evaluation and disseminate its results

    This guide from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) outlines the roles and responsibilities of evaluation managers during and after the evaluation has taken place.
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  • Key informant attribution

    A method for testing causal reasoning by asking key informants.
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  • Causal Pathways introductory session: Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP)

    This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, by Fiona Remnant and James Copestake, discusses QuIP, a non-experimental goal-free approach to impact evaluation that can map and analyze causal mechanisms.
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  • The art and craft of bricolage in evaluation

    This CDI Practice Paper, by Tom Aston and Marina Apgar, makes the case for ‘bricolage’ in complexity-aware and qualitative evaluation methods.
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  • Causal link monitoring FAQs

    This resource provides answers to a selection of frequently asked questions about the Causal Link Monitoring (CLM) approach.
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  • Cases in outcome harvesting

    This report from The World Bank documents the pilot of a program that examines the use of outcome harvesting and the Bank's results management approach to understand how change happens in complex environments.
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  • Causal link monitoring brief

    Causal Link Monitoring (CLM) integrates design and monitoring to support adaptive management of projects.
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  • Using qualitative comparative analysis to explore causal links for scaling up investments in renewable energy

    This paper illustrates how qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) was used to identify causal pathways for scaling renewable energy to meet sustainable development and climate goals.
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  • Causal pathways

    A causal pathways perspective on evaluation focuses on understanding how, why, and under what conditions change happens or has happened.
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  • Outcome mapping + equity, gender, and social justice

    This paper introduces OM+, a new approach to thinking about and using Outcome Mapping (OM) for supporting transformative change through a focus on inclusion and leadership for equity, gender, and social justice.
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  • Budgeting for developmental evaluation (DE)

    An interview with internationally recognised evaluation expert Michael Quinn Patton by Heather Britt for BetterEvaluation, April 2012.  
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  • Causal link monitoring

    Causal link monitoring (CLM) is an approach to designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems that prioritise information for managing adaptively in complexity.
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  • From narrative text to causal maps: QuIP analysis and visualisation

    This paper focuses on analysing raw data to produce useful visual summaries, describing in detail the processes involved in a QuIP analysis.
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  • Transparency

    Transparency refers to the evaluation processes and conclusions being able to be scrutinised.
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  • Integrity

    Integrity refers to ensuring honesty, transparency, and adherence to ethical behaviour by all those involved in the evaluation process.
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  • 10 years of outcome mapping

    This webinar from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community (OMLC) presents the key findings from research conducted into the extent of Outcome Mapping use and the support required for its implementation.
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  • Mapeo de alcances

    El Mapeo de Alcances es un enfoque que ayuda a desentrañar la teoría de cambio de una iniciativa y proporciona un marco para recolectar información sobre los cambios inmediatos, básicos, que llevan a un cambio más prolongado y transformativo.
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  • Causal Pathways introductory session: Contribution analysis

    This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, by Drew Koleros, explored the use of contribution analysis as a theory-based approach to evaluation to unpack complexity within complex systems change evaluations.
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  • Community-led evaluation design

    A community develops an evaluation design, sometimes with facilitation or technical support.
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