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Making choices in health: WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis
This detailed guide provides investigators with a rigorous technical discussion of the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) procedure, written from a public health perspective, as a method for assessing the efficiency of an intervention.Cost-effectiveness analysis, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) online guide offers a detailed and interactive introduction to the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) process. The guide covers the following:Guidance Note on Developing Terms of Reference (ToR) for Evaluations
This guide from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is aimed at providing support to staff in the creation of Terms of Reference for evaluation.Guideline for Preparing ToR for Evaluating Project / Program / Organization Performances / Results
This guide from CARE Ethiopia is designed to assist staff in developing Terms of Reference for evaluations.Guidance for the Development of Evaluation Terms of Reference
This guide from CARE Sierra Leone provides an outline of how Terms of Reference should be developed for CARE evaluation projects.Evaluation terms of reference guidelines
This guide from World Vision is part of their Learning through Evaluation with Accountability & Planning (LEAP) series. It provides detailed instructions for creating the various elements of a Terms of Reference document.Indicators for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals
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.USAID: Evaluation policy
"This policy is intended to provide clarity to USAID staff, partners and stakeholders about the purposes of evaluation, the types of evaluations that are required and recommended, and the approach for conducting, disseminating and using evaDECI: Final Technical Report
This Final Technical Report for the Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICTD (DECI) programme provides a final evaluation of the activities, outputs, outcomes and recommendations from the project.An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions
This guide provides a non-technical introduction to randomised controlled trials (RCTs).Selecting Impact/Outcome Evaluation Designs: A Decision-Making Table and Checklist Approach
This article from Paul Duignan is aimed at supporting evaluators in deciding which impact/outcome evaluation design is most appropriate to use.Development Impact Evaluation Initiative
This World Bank website provides links to a variety of briefs, conference papers, thematic programs and working papers on impact evaluation.Steps - Steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change
This tool from Margaret Sanger Center International provides a step-by-step process for planning, monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects.Template for evaluation plan
ContentsRandomised control trials for the impact evaluation of development initiatives: a statistician's point of view
This paper from the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative provides a range of technical and practical reflections on the use of randomised control trials in impact evaluation.Understanding influence: the episode studies approach
In this chapter from the book, The Politics of Trade, published by the International DevelopmThe role of research in pro-poor dairy policy shift in Kenya
This working paper forms part of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) and Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI’s) ‘Process and Partnership for Pro-poor Policy Change’, which seeks to identify and institutionalize innovJoint after-action review of our humanitarian response to the tsunami crisis
This paper outlines the findings from the Joint After Action Review conducted to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Useful Tools for Engaging Young People in Participatory Evaluation
In this guide each tool is presented in a user-friendly format to enable the practitioner to easily put it to use.Focus Groups - People and Participation.net
This webpage from People and Participation.net gives an overview of the focus group process including providing a number of case studies demonstrating their use.World Cafe - People and Participation
This guide provides detailed information on how to effectively use The World Cafe. Additional information covers suitable participants, cost / time requirements and appropriate circumstances of use.Bar Charts and Histograms
This website provides a clear explanation on how to make histograms and bar charts includng a nine minute video and exercises to test your understanding. ExcerptPensions, Poverty and Household Investments in Bolivia
This paper analyses the effect of the BONOSOL pension on the well-being of elderly Bolivians and finds a range of positive effects of the program on the lives of impoverished households.Impact evaluation in practice
This book from the World Bank provides a detailed introduction to impact evaluations in the development field. It also provides several tools and approaches for conducting impact evaluations.Developing a logic model or theory of change, community toolbox, University of Kansas
This chapter from the University of Kansas Work Group for Community Health and Development 'Community Toolbox' contains a detailed overview of logic models and theory of change development relevant to the related construction of the realistThe World Cafe toolkit
The World Cafe website offers several free tools for supporting the set-up and facilitation of a World Cafe session. The following tools are available for download on the World Cafe website:The River Chart
Developed by Geoff Parcell and Chris Collison in their book No More Consultants: We Know More Than We Think, “The River Diagram” is a useful tool designed for visualising the results of self-assessment and peer-learning data from multiUK Data Service Variable and Question Bank (formally the Survey Question Bank)
The UK Data Service Variable and Question Bank is an online repository of questionnaires and variables, from a large number of UK and cross-national social surveys dating to the mid-1990s.Appreciative inquiry commons
This website from is an online portal which aims to facilitate the sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry (AI)Participant produced video: Giving participants camcorders as a social research methods
This toolkit from Real Life Methods provides a guide to using participant-produced video to allow participants to record their everyday lives and reflect on those things that matter to them.Participatory Mapping: An innovative sociological method
This toolkit from Real Life Methods provides an introduction to the use of participatory maps in research.Informed consent in visual research
This toolkit from Real Life Methods provides tips and advice on seeking informed consent to use digital photographs of participants of a project.