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Advocacy impact evaluation
This paper from Michael Quinn Patton presents a retrospective case study in which the the potential influence of judicial advocacy efforts targeted at the Supreme Court is assessed.
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AEA365: PE Standards Week: Thinking about standards past and present, at home and abroad
This blog, written by Brad Watts for AEA365, introduces the program evaluation standards week series of blogs and provides examples of different approaches to evaluation standards.
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Evaluation of international development interventions: An overview of approaches and methods
This guide, produced by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, aims to provide the reader with an accessible reference to evaluation approaches and methods used in international development contexts.
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La historia del desarrollo de una sopa de pescado
Explica los conceptos de insumos, productos, alcances e impactos diferenciando entre situaciones simples y complejas.
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Conducting after-action reviews and retrospects
This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on the use of after-action reviews to discuss successes and failures of a project in order to identify how accomplishments can be sustained and shortcomings overco
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Lessons learnt
Lessons learnt can take the form of describing what should or should not be done, or describing the outcome of different processes.
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Archive the evaluation report and data (if appropriate)
There are benefits of an archive of evaluation data and/or reports in the way they can be used.
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Manager's guide to evaluation
Introduction to randomized control trials
This video lecture given by Dr Annette Brown for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) describes how to create a valid counterfactual using randomize
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Professional Master in Evaluation of Development Programs and Projects
This program aims to enhance technical training in the evaluation field, particularly for public and private sector officials involved in programs and projects across various industries with an interdisciplinary approach.
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Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework
This discussion brief considers the benefits of using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) to assess the impact of research on agricultural poverty.
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Consensus decision making
Consensus decision is a decision-making method that involves reaching agreement between all members of a group with regards to a certain issue.
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Doing qualitative field research on gender norms with adolescent girls and their families
This research and practice note offers practical advice, examples and tools to ensure gender sensitivity in evaluation and research with adolescent girls, with a focus on qualitative research methods.
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Communicating & reporting evaluation processes & findings
This PowerPoint presentation by Hallie Preskill, gives an overview of communicating and reporting and provides examples of some of the tools that can be used to facilitate the process.
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Reflection on the review of the IEG@50 writing competition on culturally responsive evaluation
A recent essay competition, jointly hosted by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), and EvalYouth, invited emerging evaluators to propose solutions f
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National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) webinar: Engaging youth, addressing crisis, and building resilience (GEI and UNDP)
This National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) conference webinar explores the themes of youth engagement in national evaluation systems and the challenges associated with evaluating and strengthening these systems in crisis settings.
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C4D: Develop R,M&E capacity
Assessing the capacity, and support for the capacity development needs, of organizations and key partners and community groups and others involved in the R,M&E will help to increase the effectiveness, quality, rigour and utilisation of the overall R,M…
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Communication for Development (C4D)
California county scorecard of children's well-being
This website from Children Now provides an interactive display of statistics reporting on the wellbeing of children in California. It uses 38 indicators to rank child well-being in each of California's 58 Counties.
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Building Blocks of Impact Evaluation
This video guide, produced by UNICEF, summarises the different elements of impact evaluation and options for planning and managing its various stages.
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Reporting needs analysis
Conducting a needs analysis with your client to determine their reporting requirements.
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The Big Push Forward
This website provides a range of resources and discussion about approaches for assessing transformative development processes.
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Evaluation and Gender Mainstreaming in the European Social Fund
This webpage from The European Community of Practice on Gender Mainstreaming (Gender-CoP) provides details, including copies of all presentations, from the Conference on Evaluation
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Certificate in Program Evaluation
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Learning Exchange Fund overview and application form
The MEL team in the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program created a special fund to support structured learning and collaboration between its existing grantees.
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Analysis of variance and design of experiments
This online course from Penn State University, provides 12 lessons focusing on various aspects of this option.
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The remote partnering work book
Working in partnership is central to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and a very high percentage of partnerships linked to the SDGs are remote partnerships.
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Questionnaire
Ce site web fournit des informations détaillées sur ce qu'est une enquête, pourquoi et quand elle est utilisée, et comment elle peut être réalisée.
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Key concepts in evaluation
Evaluation can seem complicated at first, but understanding some key concepts will help you feel more confident and get the most out of your experiences.
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Evaluation career guide
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Instrumental variables
This method is used to estimate the causal effect of variables on an intervention.
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Using structured interviewing techniques
This paper from the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) explains structured interview techniques for GAO evaluators and how they should be incorporated when appropriate.
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The nonprofit taxonomy of outcomes: Creating a common language for the sector
This paper from the Urban Institute provides basic, generic outcomes and performance indicators that are easily adaptable for any program.
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52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 6: Facilitating evaluation decisions
There are many decisions to be made in an evaluation – its purpose and scope; the key evaluation questions; how different values will be negotiated; what should be the research design and methods for data collection and analysis; how
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