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    What are approaches?

    Approaches (on this site) refer to an integrated package of options (methods or processes). For example, 'Randomized Controlled Trials' (RCTs) use a combination of the options random sampling, control group and standardised indicators and measures.

    Appreciative enquiry

    A strengths-based approach designed to support ongoing learning and adaptation by identifying and investigating outlier examples of good practice and ways of increasing their frequency.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Beneficiary Assessment

    An approach that focuses on assessing the value of an intervention as perceived by the (intended) beneficiaries, thereby aiming to give voice to their priorities and concerns.

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    Case study

    A research design that focuses on understanding a unit (person, site or project) in its context, which can use a combination of qualitative and quantitative data.

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    Causal Link Monitoring 

    An approach designed to support ongoing learning and adaptation, which identifies the processes required to achieve desired results, and then observes whether those processes take place, and how.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Collaborative Outcomes Reporting

    An impact evaluation approach based on contribution analysis, with the addition of processes for expert review and community review of evidence and conclusions.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Contribution Analysis

    An impact evaluation approach that iteratively maps available evidence against a theory of change, then identifies and addresses challenges to causal inference.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Critical System Heuristics

    An approach used to surface, elaborate, and critically consider the options and implications of boundary judgments, that is, the ways in which people/groups decide what is relevant to what is being evaluated.

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    Democratic Evaluation

    Various ways of doing evaluation in ways that support democratic decision making, accountability and/or capacity.

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    A stakeholder involvement approach designed to provide groups with the tools and knowledge they need to monitor and evaluate their own performance and accomplish their goals.

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    Horizontal Evaluation

    A particular type of case study used to jointly develop an agreed narrative of how an innovation was developed, including key contributors and processes, to inform future innovation efforts.

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    Innovation History

    A way to jointly develop an agreed narrative of how an innovation was developed, including key contributors and processes, to inform future innovation efforts.

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    Institutional Histories

    A particular type of case study used  to create a narrative of how institutional arrangements have evolved over time and have created and contributed to more effective ways to achieve project or program goals.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Most Significant Change

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

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Outcome Harvesting

    An impact evaluation approach suitable for retrospectively identifying emergent impacts by collecting evidence of what has changed  and, then, working backwards, determining whether and how an intervention has contributed to these changes.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Outcome Mapping

    An impact evaluation approach which unpacks  an initiative’s theory of change, provides a framework to collect data on immediate, basic changes that lead to longer, more transformative change, and allows for the plausible assessment of the initiative’s contribution to results via ‘boundary partners’.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Participatory Evaluation

    A range of approaches that engage stakeholders (especially intended beneficiaries) in conducting the evaluation and/or making decisions about the evaluation​.

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    Participatory Rural Appraisal

    A participatory approach which enables  farmers to analyse their own situation and develop a common perspective on natural resource management and agriculture at village level. 

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    Positive Deviance

    A strengths-based approach to learning and improvement that involves intended evaluation users in identifying ‘outliers’ – those with exceptionally good outcomes - and understanding how they have achieved these.

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    Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol  (QUIP)

    An impact evaluation approach without a control group that uses narrative causal statements elicited directly from intended project beneficiaries.

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    Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT)

    An impact evaluation approach that compares results between a randomly assigned control group and experimental group or groups to produce an estimate of the mean net impact of an intervention.

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    Rapid Evaluation

    A Rapid Evaluation is an approach that uses multiple evaluation methods and techniques to quickly and systematically collect data when time or resources are limited.

    Many terms are used to describe these approaches, including real time evaluations, rapid feedback evaluation, rapid evaluation methods, rapid-cycle evaluation and rapid appraisal.  The common feature of these different models is the expedited implementation timeframes which generally range from 10 days to 6 months.

     

    Realist Evaluation

    An approach especially to impact evaluation which examines what works for whom in what circumstances through what causal mechanisms, including changes in the reasoning and resources of participants.

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    Social Return on Investment (SROI)

    An participatory approach to value-for-money evaluation that identifies a broad range of social outcomes, not only the direct outcomes for the intended beneficiaries of an intervention.

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    Success Case Method

    The Success Case Method (SCM) involves identifying the most and least successful cases in a program and examining them in detail. This approach was developed by Robert Brinkerhoff to assess the impact of organisational interventions, such as training and coaching, though the use of SCM is not limited to this context. It is a useful approach to document stories of impact and to develop an understanding of the factors that enhance or impede impact.

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    Utilisation-Focused Evaluation

    An approach to decision-making in evaluation that involves identifying the primary intended users and uses of an evaluation and then making all decisions in terms of the evaluation design and plan with reference to these.

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      • Document management processes and agreements
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      • Develop initial description
      • Develop programme theory / theory of change
      • Identify potential unintended results
    • Frame the boundaries for an evaluation
      • Identify primary intended users
      • Decide purpose
      • Specify key evaluation questions
      • Determine what 'success' looks like
    • Describe activities, outcomes, impacts and context
      • Sample
      • Use measures, indicators or metrics
      • Collect and/or retrieve data
      • Manage data
      • Combine qualitative and quantitative data
      • Analyse data
      • Visualise data
    • Understand Causes of outcomes and impacts
      • Check the results are consistent with causal contribution
      • Compare results to the counterfactual
      • Investigate possible alternative explanations
    • Synthesise data from one or more evaluations
      • Synthesise data from a single evaluation
      • Synthesise data across evaluations
      • Extrapolate findings
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      • Identify reporting requirements
      • Develop reporting media
      • Ensure accessibility
      • Develop recommendations
      • Support use
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    • Appreciative Inquiry
    • Beneficiary Assessment
    • Case Study
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    • Horizontal Evaluation
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    • Institutional Histories
    • Most Significant Change
    • Outcome Harvesting
    • Outcome Mapping
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    • Participatory Rural Appraisal
    • Positive Deviance
    • Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol
    • Randomized Controlled Trial
    • Rapid Evaluation
    • Realist Evaluation
    • Social Return on Investment
    • Success Case Method
    • Utilization-Focused Evaluation

    What are approaches?

    Approaches (on this site) refer to an integrated package of options (methods or processes). For example, 'Randomized Controlled Trials' (RCTs) use a combination of the options random sampling, control group and standardised indicators and measures.

    Appreciative enquiry

    A strengths-based approach designed to support ongoing learning and adaptation by identifying and investigating outlier examples of good practice and ways of increasing their frequency.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Beneficiary Assessment

    An approach that focuses on assessing the value of an intervention as perceived by the (intended) beneficiaries, thereby aiming to give voice to their priorities and concerns.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Case study

    A research design that focuses on understanding a unit (person, site or project) in its context, which can use a combination of qualitative and quantitative data.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Causal Link Monitoring 

    An approach designed to support ongoing learning and adaptation, which identifies the processes required to achieve desired results, and then observes whether those processes take place, and how.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Collaborative Outcomes Reporting

    An impact evaluation approach based on contribution analysis, with the addition of processes for expert review and community review of evidence and conclusions.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Contribution Analysis

    An impact evaluation approach that iteratively maps available evidence against a theory of change, then identifies and addresses challenges to causal inference.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Critical System Heuristics

    An approach used to surface, elaborate, and critically consider the options and implications of boundary judgments, that is, the ways in which people/groups decide what is relevant to what is being evaluated.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Democratic Evaluation

    Various ways of doing evaluation in ways that support democratic decision making, accountability and/or capacity.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Developmental Evaluation

    An approach designed to support ongoing learning and adaptation, through iterative, embedded evaluation.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Empowerment Evaluation

    A stakeholder involvement approach designed to provide groups with the tools and knowledge they need to monitor and evaluate their own performance and accomplish their goals.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Horizontal Evaluation

    A particular type of case study used to jointly develop an agreed narrative of how an innovation was developed, including key contributors and processes, to inform future innovation efforts.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Innovation History

    A way to jointly develop an agreed narrative of how an innovation was developed, including key contributors and processes, to inform future innovation efforts.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Institutional Histories

    A particular type of case study used  to create a narrative of how institutional arrangements have evolved over time and have created and contributed to more effective ways to achieve project or program goals.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Most Significant Change

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

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Outcome Harvesting

    An impact evaluation approach suitable for retrospectively identifying emergent impacts by collecting evidence of what has changed  and, then, working backwards, determining whether and how an intervention has contributed to these changes.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Outcome Mapping

    An impact evaluation approach which unpacks  an initiative’s theory of change, provides a framework to collect data on immediate, basic changes that lead to longer, more transformative change, and allows for the plausible assessment of the initiative’s contribution to results via ‘boundary partners’.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Participatory Evaluation

    A range of approaches that engage stakeholders (especially intended beneficiaries) in conducting the evaluation and/or making decisions about the evaluation​.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Participatory Rural Appraisal

    A participatory approach which enables  farmers to analyse their own situation and develop a common perspective on natural resource management and agriculture at village level. 

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Positive Deviance

    A strengths-based approach to learning and improvement that involves intended evaluation users in identifying ‘outliers’ – those with exceptionally good outcomes - and understanding how they have achieved these.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol  (QUIP)

    An impact evaluation approach without a control group that uses narrative causal statements elicited directly from intended project beneficiaries.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT)

    An impact evaluation approach that compares results between a randomly assigned control group and experimental group or groups to produce an estimate of the mean net impact of an intervention.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Rapid Evaluation

    A Rapid Evaluation is an approach that uses multiple evaluation methods and techniques to quickly and systematically collect data when time or resources are limited.

    Many terms are used to describe these approaches, including real time evaluations, rapid feedback evaluation, rapid evaluation methods, rapid-cycle evaluation and rapid appraisal.  The common feature of these different models is the expedited implementation timeframes which generally range from 10 days to 6 months.

     

    Realist Evaluation

    An approach especially to impact evaluation which examines what works for whom in what circumstances through what causal mechanisms, including changes in the reasoning and resources of participants.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Social Return on Investment (SROI)

    An participatory approach to value-for-money evaluation that identifies a broad range of social outcomes, not only the direct outcomes for the intended beneficiaries of an intervention.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Success Case Method

    The Success Case Method (SCM) involves identifying the most and least successful cases in a program and examining them in detail. This approach was developed by Robert Brinkerhoff to assess the impact of organisational interventions, such as training and coaching, though the use of SCM is not limited to this context. It is a useful approach to document stories of impact and to develop an understanding of the factors that enhance or impede impact.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

    Utilisation-Focused Evaluation

    An approach to decision-making in evaluation that involves identifying the primary intended users and uses of an evaluation and then making all decisions in terms of the evaluation design and plan with reference to these.

    Click an approach on the left to navigate to it

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      • Footprint evaluation
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      • Technology and evaluation in insecure settings
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