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The program manager's guide to evaluation
This comprehensive guide from the US Administration for Children and Families provides a step-by-step outline of the evaluation process from purpose to reporting.ESCAP M&E System: Monitoring & evaluation system overview and evaluation guidelines
This guide from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNSCAP) provides clear guidelines to users on planning, implementing and using the findings of evaluations of ESCAP programsHiring M&E staff: Guidelines and tools for locating and hiring strong monitoring & evaluation candidates
This guide, authored by Clara Hagens and Guy Sharrock for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the American Red Cross, outlines a step-by-step process for identifying evaluation needs and hiring staff to ensure quality proHealth Policy Project: Strengthening capacity in policy, advocacy, governance, and finance: A facilitator guide for organizational capacity assessments
The resource, developed by the Health Policy Project, is a self-assessment tool designed to align with an organization's mission concerning health policy, though the tool is useful more broadly outside the health sector.Ethics framework and guidelines: A guide for research funding organizations implementing participatory activities
This framework supports the ethical preparation, implementation, and evaluation of participatory processes in research funding and (applied) research & innovation (R&I).Evaluation in contexts of fragility, conflict and violence: Guidance from global evaluation practitioners
This guide offers practical advice for designing, conducting, and using evaluations in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts.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.Guidance note on evaluation and Do No Harm
This note provides guidance on incorporating the Do No Harm (DNH) principle into evaluations.Evaluating peacebuilding activities in settings of conflict and fragility
This document provides guidance for evaluating peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile settings.Addressing the lack of evaluation capacity in post-conflict Somalia
This study explores institutional evaluation in Somalia’s NGO sector, detailing how dominance by international organisations and insufficient local professional involvement significantly limit evaluation capacity and impacSynthesis of evaluations in South Sudan: Lessons learned for engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states
This article synthesizes evaluation reports from South Sudan to inform decision-making in fragile states, highlighting the need for better project design, flexibility, and long-term commitment to enhance sustainability andDecolonizing community development evaluation in Rakhine State, Myanmar
This paper explores the complexities of decolonising evaluation practices, highlighting that it's more than translation and local data collection.Information sheets: Evaluation advocates
This series of seven information sheets compiles examples and strategies from evaluation advocates on how they increased the engagement of the people with whom they were working on evaluation initiatives.Monitoring and accountability practices for remotely managed projects implemented in volatile operating environments
This report explores monitoring and accountability practices for remotely managed projects in volatile environments, highlighting a trend of remote management as a long-term approach rather than a temporary solution.Back to the drawing board: how to improve monitoring of outcomes
This paper explores challenges in outcome monitoring for humanitarian interventions, emphasizing the need for adaptive learning, better resource management, and overcoming sectoral silos.Discussion note: Third-party monitoring in non-permissive environments
This guidance note outlines the use of third-party monitoring (TPM) in non-permissive environments, providing strategies for effective data collection in inaccessible or insecure areas.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.Monitoring and evaluation: Five reality checks for adaptive management
This webpage outlines five key areas to enhance M&E for adaptive management in international development programs.Monitoring, evaluation and learning for fragile states and peacebuilding programs: Practical tools for improving program performance and results
This toolkit offers a structured approach for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in fragile and conflict-affected settings.Localization analysis framework
This resource from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) presents a "localization analysis framework" as an evaluation tool to measure a program’s alignment with a locally-led development approach and to identify key relevant barriers and enablers.Cadre d'analyse de la localisation
Cette ressource d’Affaires mondiales Canada (AMC) présente un cadre d’analyse de la localisation comme outil d’évaluation permettant de mesurer l’alignement d’un programme sur une approche de développement menée localement et d’identifier lReal-time evaluations of humanitarian action: An ALNAP guide
This ALNAP guide provides a structured approach for conducting real-time evaluations (RTEs) during humanitarian responses.Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world
This article explores how the term "stakeholder" can unintentionally reinforce colonial narratives and systemic inequities.Looped: Database of social development and humanitarian consulting firms
Looped is a global database of over 150 social development and humanitarian consulting firms, organised by sector (humanitarian, development, or both), areas of specialisation, location, and organisational size.The complexity evaluation toolkit
CECAN's Complexity Evaluation Toolkit helps evaluators navigate complex systems, address unpredictability in policy outcomes, and enhance decision-making across nexus domains like food, water, energy, and the environment.Evaluation budgeting (Adaptation fund guidance note)
This guidance note aims to support the preparation and implementation of evaluation budgets that are realistic and fit-for-purpose to finance reliable, useful, and ethical evaluations.Putting the people in the pictures first: Ethical guidelines for the collection and use of content (images and stories)
These guidelines emphasise ethical practices in filming, photography, and interviewing, prioritising contributors' rights and the impact on both individuals and audiences.Evaluation champions: A literature review
This article, from Alison Rogers and Amy Gullickson, explores the idea of evaluation champions within organisations, highlighting and advocating for an increased understanding of their role.Embedding evaluation in non-profit organisations: Lessons from evaluation advocates
This article shares findings from a study of evaluation advocates in Australian non-profit organisations who were trying to make evaluation a normal part of their operations.Competitive champions versus cooperative advocates: Understanding advocates for evaluation
This study explores how individuals working in Australian non-profit organisations act as evaluation advocates, promoting evaluation through motivation, collaboration, and alignment with organisational goals.Local Ownership in Evaluation: Moving from Participant Inclusion to Ownership in Evaluation Decision Making
This briefing paper explores how local ownership can be extended to evaluation processes, not just programme design or delivery.Tools for knowledge and learning: A guide for development and humanitarian organisations
This tool kit presents entry points and references to the wide range of tools and methods that have been used to facilitate improved knowledge and learning in the development and humanitarian sectors.