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How to design and manage equity-focused evaluations
This guide from UNICEF is divided into two parts. It begins by defining equity and its importance and relevance today.Logic models: Better thinking for better results
This paper from Wilder Research provides advice and a step-by-step process for creating logic models.How to build a logic model
This paper from Wilder Research provides a detailed explanation for building high quality logic models in four steps.Evaluation of the Aboriginal Research pilot program (Canada)
This resource reports on the evaluation of an Aboriginal Research pilot program to facilitate discussions about the renewal of the program.Review of the use of ‘Theory of Change’ in international development
This report, commissioned by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and authored by Isabel Vogel, reviews how theory of change is being used in the international development context.Facilitator's source book: Source book for facilitators leading theory of change development sessions
This guide, authored by Dana Taplin and Muamer Rasic for ActKnowledge, provides detailed guidance on facilitating theory of change workshops.Avaliação para o investimento social privado: Metodologias
Este livro reúne um conjunto de contribuições oriundas do Seminário Internacional Avaliação para o Investimento Social Privado: Metodologias.Theories and Indicators of Change: Concepts and Primers for Conflict Management and Mitigation
This guide, written by Eileen Babbitt, Diana Chigas and Robert Wilkinson for USAID, provides detailed guidance on using theories of change, with a particular emphasis on conflict management and mitigation.Theories of change and indicator development in conflict management and mitigation
This guide, written by Susan Allen Nan with Mary Mulvihill for USAID, provides a detailed discussion of the use of theories of change in conflict mitigation focusing on the role they can play in improved program design and implementatiA guide to assessing needs
This book, written by Ryan Watkins, Maurya West Meiers and Yusra Laila Visser for The World Bank, provides detailed guidance on needs assessment during the early stages of project development.The theory of change
This video lecture given by Professor Howard White for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) outlines the use and importance of a theory of change in impThe magenta book: Guidance for evaluation
This guide, from H M Treasury, originally published in 2011 and updated in 2020, is the central guidance for all UK government departments on evaluation.Theory of change
This guide, written by Patricia Rogers for UNICEF, looks at the use of theory of change in an impact evaluation.Mapping change: Using a theory of change of guide planning and evaluation
This guide, written by Anne MacKinnon and Natasha Arnott for GrantCraft, describes the process of developing a theory of change to support planning and evaluation.Making sense of evaluation: A handbook for everyone
This evaluation handbook, created by the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Unity (Superu), has been designed for those working in New Zealand's social sector who need to know more about how to measure and understand the effectiveneComo elaborar modelo lógico:roteiro para formular programas e organizar avaliação
Este documento apresenta uma descrição do modelo logico, sua aplicabilidade, e como desenvolver um modelo logico com a finalidade de aperfeiçoar programas e projetos.Crafting logic models
In this webinar, "Crafting Logic Models," Sue Cottrell shared her experiences creating logic models, providing an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach.How to improve results in situations of fragility, conflict, and violence: 12 recommendations
This strategy document details the World Bank's updated approach to FCV-affected countries.Evaluating peacebuilding activities in settings of conflict and fragility
This document provides guidance for evaluating peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile settings.Causality assessment for landscape interventions (CALI)
This resource introduces Causality Assessment for Landscape Interventions (CALI), an approach developed by UNDP to support adaptive management of projects that aim to reduce deforestation at the landscape or jurisdictional level.Best practices compendium on outcome budgeting
This resource from the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, Government of India, is designed to assist government entities in shifting from input and output-focused budgeting to an outcomes-oriented approach.How change happens
This open-access book by Duncan Green, with Tom Kirk, bridges the gap between academia and practice, bringing together research and the practical insights of activists to explore social and political change.Applying adaptive theory of change in fragile and conflict affected settings
This paper discusses adaptive management in fragile settings, highlighting flexible theories of change and real-time evaluations to adjust programs dynamically in response to evolving FCV challenges.Conflict analysis: Topic guide
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of conflict analysis, offering practical guidance, tools, and frameworks for understanding conflict dynamics and applying conflict-sensitive methods in project design andConflict sensitivity: Topic guide
This guide introduces conflict sensitivity and provides tools, approaches, and frameworks to help practitioners understand and mitigate unintended negative impacts of interventions in conflict-affected areas.Good practice note: Conflict sensitivity, peacebuilding and sustaining peace
This document offers guidance on integrating conflict sensitivity into programming to ensure that humanitarian and development activities do no harm and contribute to peacebuilding.Guidance for designing, monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding projects: Using theories of change
This guide focuses on how to design, monitor, and evaluate peacebuilding projects using theories of change.Guide to context analysis: Informing FAO decision-making – Approaches to working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts
This FAO guide focuses on context analysis in fragile and conflict-affected settings, offering a structured approach for designing conflict-sensitive interventions.How to guide to conflict sensitivity
This guide offers a framework for integrating conflict sensitivity into development and humanitarian programs.Measuring unintended effects in peacebuilding: What the field of international cooperation can learn from innovative approaches shaped by complex contexts
This paper explores how peacebuilding programs can identify unintended effects using adaptive management and participatory methods.Practical approaches to theories of change in conflict, security, and justice programmes - part II: Using theories of change in monitoring and evaluation
This guide offers practical advice for using theories of change in the monitoring and evaluation stages of conflict, security, and justice programmes.German development cooperation in fragile contexts
The report examines how varying definitions of fragility—covering state authority, administrative capacity, and legitimacy—shape development cooperation priorities, as well as the design and implementation of evaluations.