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Filter search resultsEvaluation and communication in practice (DECI-2 website)
The DECI-2 website features a searchable knowledge base with over 80 documents and an online guide directed primarily to communication practitioners.RessourceWISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education
WISE's website organises a large amount of statistics resources available on the web into one central place.RessourceCenter for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI)
Founded in 1998 as a project of the Independent Sector, the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI, now the Council for Nonprofits Everyday Advocacy) is now a natRessourceEvaluating your nonprofit's lobbyist
This guide provides eight key activities that organisations should use to evaluate the effectiveness of their lobbyist.RessourceIterative design and monitoring for adaptive management: How causal link monitoring can help
Development actors are embracing the concept and practice of adaptive management, using evidence to inform ongoing revisions throughout implementation.BlogBroadening the range of designs and methods for impact evaluations
The working paper, written by Elliot Stern, Nicoletta Stame, John Mayne, Kim Forss, Rick Davies and Barbara Befani for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), describes how theory-based, case-based and participatory meRessourceContribution 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 efforts made a difference.RessourceCausal link monitoring brief
Causal Link Monitoring (CLM) integrates design and monitoring to support adaptive management of projects.RessourceQuIP and the Yin/Yang of Quant and Qual: How to navigate QuIP visualisations
This discussion paper reviews how quantitative and qualitative processes are utilised in analysis and presentation of dataRessourceAttributing development impact: The qualitative impact protocol (QuIP) case book
This freely available, online book brings together case studies using an impact evaluation approach, the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP), without a control group that uses narrative causal statements elicited directly from intended projeRessourceComparing QuIP with thirty other approaches to impact evaluation
This resource outlines how the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) compares to 30 other impact evaluation approaches.RessourceRealist 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.ApproachRealist 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.ApproachRealist impact evaluation: An introduction
Realist impact evaluation is an approach to impact evaluation that emphasises the importance of context for programme outcomes.RessourceFrom 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.RessourceQuIP: Understanding clients through in-depth interviews
This practice note gives a step-by-step guide to developing and conducting in-depth interviews using the QuIP approach, and analysing the information and making conclusions based on what you have learned.RessourceBath social & developmental research ltd. (BSDR) website
BSDR is a non-profit research organisation set up by the authors of the QuIP - a small team of researchers from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) at the University of Bath - with the ambition to bring more research into practice.RessourceAssessing rural transformations: Piloting a qualitative impact protocol in Malawi and Ethiopia
This working paper reports on findings from four pilot studies of a protocol for qualitative impact evaluation of NGO-sponsored rural development projects in Malawi and Ethiopia.RessourceQuIP used as part of an evaluation of the impact of the UK Government Tampon Tax Fund (TTF)
The evaluation of the UK Government's Tampon Tax Fund (TTF), established in 2015, incorporated Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP) techniques to capture grantees' perspectives.RessourceQualitative impact assessment protocol (QuIP)
This easy-to-read briefing introduces the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) as a valuable, simple and cost-effective tool for assessing the impact of social investments and development interventions.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 impact evaluation from ‘assessingRessource