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Filter search resultsExpectations about identifying and documenting “Lessons Learned”
This guide by Rick Davies offers advice on identifying and appropriately writing effective Lessons Learnt paragraphs.RessourceWhat is a lesson learnt?
A short one-page guide on identifying Lessons Learnt and best practices, which also offers tips on formulating Lessons Learnt paragraphs.RessourceUNICEF: Innovations, lessons learned and good practices
This archived page on UNICEF's website brings together a range of lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that have emerged from UNICEF's programs and evaluations over the five years to 2013.RessourceIdentifiying and documenting “Lessons Learned”: A list of references
Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS, managed by Rick Davies, have compiled a provisional list of Lessons Learnt resources.RessourceRead and contribute to evaluation journals
In this blog, Patricia Rogers explores how you can make the most of evaluation journals.BlogAddressing attribution through contribution analysis: Using performance measures sensibly
This article from the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation outlines the key steps involved with using contribution analysis as a tool to discover the contribution a program has made to particular outcomes.RessourceEvaluation journals
Evaluation journals play an important role in documenting, developing, and sharing theory and practice. They are an important component in strengthening evaluation capacity.MethodeContribution analysis - Social science methods series
This paper, written by Franca Eirich and Anita Morrison for the Scottish Government, provides detailed guidance on contribution analysis and its use in Scottish settings.RessourceContribution analysis
Contribution analysis is an evaluation approach that provides a systematic way of understanding an intervention's contribution to observed outcomes or impacts.ApproachLearning through and about contribution analysis for impact evaluation
This article from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) discusses the Centre for Development Impact's five-year journey in innovating and understanding contribution analysis as a primary method for impact evaluation.RessourceProcess tracing and contribution analysis: A combined approach to generative causal inference for impact evaluation
This article, written by Barbara Befani and John Mayne for the IDS Bulletin (Volume 45 Number 6), outlines how the combined use of contribution analysis (CA) with process tracing (PT) can shift the focus of impRessourceContribution 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.RessourceContribution 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.RessourceTools and tips for implementing contribution analysis
This learning brief offers practical lessons on applying contribution analysis to advocacy impact evaluations. Authors Laura Hopkins, ITAD Ltd., published by Center for Evaluation Innovation.RessourceContribution analysis and estimating the size of effects: Can we reconcile the possible with the impossible?
This paper explores how contribution analysis can be used to give a quantitative sense of a contribution's importance.RessourceContribution analysis in policy work: Assessing advocacy’s influence
This brief provides a background on contribution analysis and its applications, as well as walking through five case studies in which the authors have used contribution analysis to assess whether and how advocacy effortsRessourceIntroduction: Contribution, causality, context, and contingency when evaluating inclusive business programmes
This IDS Bulletin discusses approaches and methods for meaningful impact evaluation, building on real-world experiences with theory-based evaluation in inclusive business programmes.RessourceMaking rigorous causal claims in a real-life context: Has research contributed to sustainable forest management?
This article discusses an impact evaluation that examined the contribution of two forestry research centres - the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pourRessourceDesigning contribution analysis of participatory programming to tackle the worst forms of child labour
This Research and Evidence Paper presents the theory-based and participatory evaluation design of the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme.RessourceContribution analysis for adaptive management
This briefing note shares guidance on using contribution analysis for adaptative management by examining how the approach enables programmes to work with theories of change in a practical, reflexive way and how its findings can inform progrRessourceFinding and using causal hotspots: A practice in the making
This article from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is the second in a series discussing the use of contribution analysis (CA) for impact evaluation.RessourceCausal 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.RessourceAssessing the contribution to market system change of the private enterprise programme Ethiopia
This IDS Bulletin paper examines an impact evaluation of the "Making Markets Work for the Poor" (M4P) program in Ethiopia.RessourceThe triviality of measuring ultimate outcomes: Acknowledging the span of direct influence
This article, written by Giel Ton, Sietze Vellema and Lan Ge for the IDS Bulletin, argues that instead of using household surveys to assess the effects of programs the focus should be on detailed measurement of more immediateRessourceCausal Pathways 2023 Symposium and 2024 introductory sessions
This series of webinars was first presented at the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, which focused on "connecting, learning, and building a shared understanding of the evaluation and participatory practices that make causal pathways more visible"Ressource