Kaye Stevens

This Footprint Evaluation case study explores the feasibility and value of considering environmental sustainability in the evaluation of personal protective equipment (PPE) provisioning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This blog by Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility, points out that evaluation needs to take a new, holistic perspective to address serious environmental problems.

In part one of this three-part webinar series, Andy Rowe and Patricia Rogers discuss what was learnt during the

In the last part of this three-part webinar series, Andy Rowe and Patricia Rogers introduce a typology being developed that will assist a wide range of evaluations in assessing the effect of interventions on natural systems and sustainabili

In part two of this three-part webinar series, Jane Davidson and Patricia Rogers discuss several ways to get sustainability on the evaluation agenda, even for projects that have no explicit environmental objectives and where there is no men

This report comprehensively considers human development at a time of a new ‘uncertainty complex’ created by layers of uncertainties interacting.

“Business-as-usual evaluation will not suffice.

This article invites evaluators to engage with the concept of the Rights of Nature: “recognizing ecosystems and natural communities not as property that can be owned but as entities that have an independent right to exist

This policy brief “outlines how biodiversity loss is a key driver of emerging infectious diseases and poses a variety of other growing risks to businesses, society and the global economy.

Strategy Testing (ST) is a monitoring system developed by The Asia Foundation to track programs that are using a highly iterative, adaptive approach to address complex development problems.

This code of good practice from the ISEAL Alliance is aimed at setting and codifying standards for the design and implementation of environmental and social systems.

This is a straightforward budget example that lists costs associated with four basic expenditure categories: staffing, materials and supplies, equipment and travel.  

This World Bank website provides links to a variety of briefs, conference papers, thematic programs and working papers on impact evaluation. 

This webpage from Charities Evaluation Services(CES), provides an overview to understanding why and how aims and objectives should be developed for

NodeXL for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 is a free open-source template that makes it easy to explore network graphs. 

This guide from The Urban Institute provides an overview of how Instrumental Variable Options work. It also provides links to two research examples at the end of the document.

Gephi is an open-source software package for visualizing and exploring networks and complex systemsGephi software can be used for: 

This checklist from USAID is designed to support staff to produce high quality, evidence based evaluation reports.

This publication "Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Responses" commonly referred to as the Sphere Handbook was developed by the 

This document provides readers with “good practice” examples of the various elements of an evaluation Scope Of Work (SOW) according to USAID.

This guide provides a non-technical introduction to RCTs.

Caring for our Country - MERI Strategy - is a website that breaks down the evaluation processes into four interrelated components: monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement.

This chapter provides guidance for USAID Missions, Regional Platforms, and Washington Bureaus and Offices, also known as USAID Mission/Offices, on Agency practices and standards used to determine how well Assistance Objectives (AOs) are ach

This guide examines the benefits and limitations of the rapid appraisal approach.

This template from the UK Department for International Development provides an overview of the minimum content required within Terms of Reference for development of an Evaluation Study.

This toolkit deals with transcribing your own, or your team’s, data. If you are considering sending your data to somebody else or an external transcribing agency, see the toolkit on outsourcing transcribing.

This site provides resources for Dotmocracy facilitators and more recent alternatives. 

This report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark presents the findings of the evaluation conducted into the collaboration between Denmark's Evaluation Department and the Research and Evaluation Divi

This toolkit draws on experiences of a study in which blog analysis was used alongside interviews to explore young people’s representations of their gap year experiences.

This guide from USAID has been designed to provide guidance on how to construct evaluation reports.

This document is a 44 page independent evaluation of AusAID's assistance to the Fiji Education sector over the period of 2003-2009.The success of the program was rated on the following criteria:

This guide explains the purpose, standards and what is required for a data quality assessment.

Evaluating Development Co-Operation Summary of Key Norms and Standards is a set of core principles for evaluation of development assistance adopted by the OECD DAC in 1991 and are at the heart of the Evaluation Network's approach to evaluat

This toolkit focuses on the issue of data integration within mixed options research.

This technical note from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) provides an overview to using a mixed-options approach for evaluation and outlines some of the important considerations that mu

This paper from USAID is aimed at providing guidance on the selection of effective performance indicators.

This slide show from Jane Davidson's presentation at the Auckland anzea symposium gives an overview of causation and modus operandi.

This toolkit describes the use of music elicitation in group research with Extreme Metal fans as a way of researching the music experiences and memories.

This guide defines baselines and targets and why they are both important. Using targets for performance management in a learning organization is detailed before differentiating the types of targets and how to express targets.

Produced as part of the Realities "toolkit" series, this document highlights some of the issues around ethics within the research team and suggests some helpful approaches to ethical working relationships.

This article from Paul Duignan is aimed at supporting evaluators decide which impact/outcome evaluation design is most appropriate to use.

This article examines the use of the Delphi technique as part of a Needs Assessment to inform an evaluation capability-building plan within a government department.

This guide provides a comprehensive summary of concept maps and how to use them.

This toolkit from Real Life Methods provides tips and advice on seeking informed consent to use digital photographs of

This module from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) outlines the process for creating and using different types of evaluation questions for a variety of purposes.

This series of lessons from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) aims to develop an understanding of various methods of collecting data for evaluations.

This site provides a step-by-step guide on how to identify appropriate questions for an evaluation.

This volume presents most of what needs to be known to manage or carry out an evaluation, using standardised terminology in three languages (English, Spanish and French) that contribute toward the OECD Development Aid Committee's efforts at

Page 17 of this guide from Imagine Canada provides an example of an evaluation budget for a one-year project evaluation.

This manual provides a step by step guide to the process of conducting a social network analysis by using Netdraw which is a free software tool that allows the visualisation of social networks.

This book from Torres, Preskill and Piontek has been designed to support evaluators to incorporate creative techniques in the design, conduct, communication and reporting of evaluation findings.

This document contains example questions, many of which are drawn from country, regional, sector or thematic global evaluations undertaken by the Evaluation Unit.

This website provides detailed information on what a survey is, why and when it is used, and how it can be performed.

In this guide each tool is presented in a user-friendly format to enable the practitioner to easily put it to use.

This tool from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides an overview of the most frequent reasons for undertaking programme evaluations.  The content is based on a review of evaluation li

This publication contains complete and authoritative information on the concepts, definitions, implementation and sources of data for the 48 official Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicators.

Ucinet 6 for Windows is a software package for analyzing and drawing social networks developed by Lin Freeman, Martin Everett and Steve Borgatti.  This software is available for a free 90 day trial period. 

This resource from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension provides an overview of the Delhi technique and its uses. Preparation, procedures, tips and letters are also used to explain its purpose and use.

This guide details the importance of a Terms of Reference (ToR) and examines key sections of what is to be included when developing a ToR.

This guide from Impact Alliance provides a description of the SWOT tool, outlines examples for different uses and applications, offers two different ways to conduct a SWOT analysis, and concludes with a description of how to interpret and a

This paper provides a detailed overview of the Delphi technique with a description of a group variation that involves face-to-face discussion. 

This guide produced by the Global Affairs Canada (formerly Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA)  was developed to support staff to write clear and simple

This tool makes use of qualitative information that is in the form of important distinctions or differences that people see in the world around them.

This paper from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension provides a guide using different types of sampling and outlines a range of strategies that can be used when drawing a sample.

Direct observation techniques allow for a more systematic, structured process, using well-designed observation record forms.

This USAID document advises how to conduct and apply the rapid appraisal technique known as key informant interviews.

The Tool Kit was developed to be a practical and useful guide to program evaluation for CHWs and CHW programs. 

This Realities toolkit on Email Interviews draws on the author's experience of using email interviews in a multi-option study of older music fans.

This book is intended to expand images of what can be accomplished through the Focused Conversation Method. This is done by demonstrating how many workplace tasks can be accomplished through the medium of focused conversation.

Footprint evaluation aims to embed consideration of environmental sustainability in all evaluations (and all monitoring systems), not only those with explicit environmental objectives.

Approach primarily intended to clarify differences in values among stakeholders by collecting and collectively analysing personal accounts of change.

Approach primarily intended to clarify differences in values among stakeholders by collecting and collectively analysing personal accounts of change.

This toolkit explores the use of telephone interviews in qualitative research. It discusses the practical and methodological advantages of the approach, including minimal travel time and cost and increased anonymity for participants.

This guide provides a series of tips on preparing an evaluation statement of work (SOW).

This toolkit from Real Life Methods provides a guide to using participant produced video in order to