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Advocacy Matters: Helping children change their world
This guide, written by Louisa Gosling and David Cohen for the International Save the Children Alliance, is designed to support organisations to run training workshops that will enable themComplexity Explorer
This webpage from the Santa Fe Institute provides a range of online courses and materials to improve the understanding and knowledge of complex systems science.Data Quality
This online course from the Global Health Learning Centre is designed to help learners understand what data quality is, why it is important, and what programs can do to improve it9 free books for learning data mining & data analysis
This list compiled by Alex Ivanovs brings together a range of books aimed at both beginners and those who are looking to fill in gaps in their knowledge.Workshop on the Councillor as Guardian of the Environment
This workshop, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is aimed at locally elected officials involved in environmental governance.Introduction to collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) in the program cycle
This free, one-hour online course by USAID gives an introduction to the Collaboration, Learning, Adapting (CLA) approach.Webinar recording: When the ‘field’ is online – qualitative data collection
This NVIVO webinar explores ways that researchers can adapt their research approach using online data collection when face to face fieldwork isn’t possible.AEA eStudy 045 - On-Demand access: Practical Regression Analysis for Evaluation
Presented by Jeff Wasbes, this on-demand webinar is suited both to those who are new to using quantitative methods in evaluation or and those who just need a little refresher to keep their skills sharp.Integrating environment into evaluations [video]
This Evaluation Practice Exchange Seminar was organized by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) in cooperation with the Footprint Evaluation project of BetterEvaluation and the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI).Planting the seeds for high-quality program evaluation in public health
This free e-text book, created as a collaboration between the evaluation staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Asthma Control Program and Fierro Consulting Inc., provides a practical introduction to program evalStakeholder mapping workshop
This workshop, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), aimed at locally elected officials involved in environmental governance allows participants to gain knowledge and experience of mapping to identify stakeholders.Using AI to disrupt business as usual for evaluation practitioners & firms
In this webinar, Intention 2 Impact, Inc. consultants Nina Sabarre, PhD and Blake Beckmann shared their perspectives about the potential, challenges, and opportunities of using AI for evaluation practice.Key performance indicators
A guide to thinking through the use of key performance indicators (KPIs).Communicating data findings equitably
In this webinar, Alissa Marchant and Shelli Golson-Mickens of Innovation Network discussed what it takes to communicate evaluation findings equitably.Focus group fundamentals
This webinar was presented by American University Measurement and Evaluation alum Tiffany Smith, in which she leads an interactive, practical session on "Focus Group Fundamentals."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.Using most significant change in final evaluations: A Mali case study
In this webinar, Ashley Bishop, American University alum and ME Technical Lead at Winrock International, discusses how she used the most significant change (MSC) approach in a final evaluation of a girl’s education project in Mali.Using Word & Excel to analyze qualitative data with Seth Tucker
Extracting meaningful findings from qualitative data requires an evaluator to have the right tools to able to organize, code, and immerse themselves in the data.Use participatory tools in evaluation research
How might you use participatory tools like the Bridge Model and Seasonal Calendars to collect data? And how can you do so virtually?Participatory evaluations
In this webinar, Jess Littman and Odile Drice David, MBA discussed why and how to integrate participatory methods into existing evaluations.The evaluation job search
In this webinar, AU Measurement & Evaluation alumni and students Shelli Golson-Mickens, Dennis Hood, Jess Littman, Maddison Staszkiewicz, and Miguel Teixeira discussed “The Evaluation Job Search.”