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Filter search resultsDeveloping a performance story report
This guide outlines a step-by-step participatory process for developing a performance story report in the context of ‘performance story evaluation’ and natural resource management, but can be used for monitoring and in other contexts.ResourceCausal Attribution Video
This video guide, produced by UNICEF, outlines three broad strategies for causal attribution: 1) estimating the counterfactual; 2) checking the consistency of evidence for the causal relationships mResourceEnhancing evaluation use: Insights from internal evaluation units
This book, co-edited by Marlène Läubli Loud and John Mayne, offers invaluable insights from real evaluators who share strategies they have adopted through their own experiences in evaluation.ResourceIncorporating intersectionality in evaluation of policy impacts on health equity
This document introduces intersectionality theory and promotes the use of the intersection approach in the analyses of structural policies related to health inequalities.ResourceCausal criteria methods manual
This manual details the 8-step causal criteria framework, a method that can be used to integrate information from different data sources.ResourceUnderstanding ‘Theory of Change’ in international development: a review of existing knowledge
This paper from the Asia Foundation and The Justice and Security Research ProgrammeResourceWhat do we need for better monitoring?
This blog by Jo Hall and Patricia Rogers provides an update on the Global Partnership for Better Monitoring project.BlogBetterMonitoring draft framework - September 2021
BetterEvaluation is working with UNICEF to try and improve our collective understanding and practice of the monitoring function. The BetterMonitoring initiative focuses on trying to elevate the monitoring function to make it more visible and to provide…ThemeWeek 37: Why is equity so important in evaluation?
This is #3 in our series on visionary evaluation.BlogUser personas and user journeys - key parts of our UX process
A few months ago we started gathering data on the user experience (UX) of the BetterEvaluation website.BlogAES 2018 conference reflections: Power, values, and food
In this guest blog, Fran Demetriou (Lirata Consulting and volunteer M&E advisor for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Mentoring Program) shares her reflections from the recent Australasian Evaluation Society (AES)'s 2018 conference,BlogEvaluation design
This resource from the New South Wales Department of Environment provides guidance on designing and planning evaluations.ResourceAnalyzing cause and effect in environmental assessments: Using weighted evidence from the literature
This article describes the Eco Evidence analysis framework, a type of causal criteria analysis that uses available evidence to assess support for a hypothesis.ResourceUNDP 2021/2022 Human Development Report. Uncertain times, unsettled lives: Shaping our future in a transforming world
This report comprehensively considers human development at a time of a new ‘uncertainty complex’ created by layers of uncertainties interacting.ResourceChallenges for evidence-based environmental management: What is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?
This paper explores the use of the Eco Evidence framework in answering the question "what is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?" in environmental assessments.ResourceEnvironmental flows monitoring and assessment framework
This resource from the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology provides a framework for assessing environmental flow management plans.ResourceEvaluative thinking
This set of webpages and video from the Department of Education in New South Wales, Australia, provides background information on evaluative thinking and its use.ResourceThe core of evaluation: Evaluative thinking
This AEA365 blog by Tom Grayson provides a list of quotes from notable evaluation colleagues about the importance of evaluative thinking.ResourceEvaluative thinking: SAMEA webinar
In this webinar on evaluative thinking, Thomas Schwandt explores two perspectives on the topic.ResourceThe logical framework approach
This publication is part of a series of guidelines developed by AusAid in relation to activities design.ResourceLandscape analysis equity centered evaluation
This Southern-led research was facilitated by six Global South organizations from Latin America, Asia and Africa who joined forces to transform inequitable practices mainstreamed in the evaluation of international cooperation initiatives woResourceIntegrating a transformative equity criterion into evaluations for promoting transformative systemic change
This guide sets out the rationale for why transformative equity needs to be addressed by all evaluations, especially in the South African context of high inequality, and how this might be done during the commissioning, design and conduct ofResourceEquitable evaluation: Voices from the Global South
This book aims to drive conversation about "the role of evaluation in addressing inequality and fostering an equitable society in Africa".ResourceThe future of evaluation: Young and emerging evaluators as champions of cultural responsiveness
A recent essay competition for young and emerging evaluators (YEEs), jointly hosted by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), and EvalYouth, invited emerging evaluators to propose solutions for closing the gap…BlogReflection 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 fBlogEvaluation for equitable development results
This document comprises a range of Evaluation Working Papers (EWP) focused on evaluation for equitable development.ResourceReflections on meeting the challenge of communicating the validity of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) and getting influential voices and changemakers to listen
The following article was written by Ennie Flora Gatsi (MA), Rumbidza Tizora (MSc), and Joyce Muyengwa (MSc).BlogIncorporating people's values in development: Weighting alternatives
Timely information about people’s desires could improve policy-makers’ ability to allocate resources to maximum effect and monitor interventions and outcomes.ResourcePact's capacity development evaluation
Pact envisioned OPI filling a gap in traditional capacity development measurements, moving beyond measuring outputs toward capturing capacity development outcomes.ResourceHow 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.ResourceEssentials for evaluation entrepreneurship
In this webinar recording, Dr. Nina Sabarre, Founder & CEO of Intention 2 Impact (I2I), presented primary research, best practices, and lessons learned for #Evaluation Entrepreneurship.ResourceEquitable evaluation framework
What if evaluative practice was not only about something but for something? This session explored the origins and impetus for the Equitable Evaluation Framework and how its three principles ask evaluation to:Resource