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  • Knight lab - storytelling tools

    This suite of tools is useful for creating highly interactive, beautiful representations of data.
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  • RQ+ Research Quality Plus. A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Research

    This report describes a holistic approach and assessment framework for evaluating 'research' that goes beyond the traditional deliberative means (e.g., peer review) and often used analytics (e.g., bibliometrics).
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  • SAVE Toolkit: Technologies for monitoring in insecure environments

    In this toolkit from the SAVE research programme, users can find a detailed summary of technologies suited to monitoring in insecure environments, including applications, their pros and cons as well as many links to more detailed informatio
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  • UNICEF Webinar: Quasi-experimental design and methods

    What is the main difference between quasi-experiments and RCTs? How can I measure impact when establishing a control group is not an option?
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  • Canva

    Canva is a very simple, free to use, online infographic creation platform. It has a drag and drop interface and a range of templates that you can adapt.
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  • Transcribe

    Transcribe is a very useful tool if you need to transcribe a small amount of data and don't have access to some of the more professional, downloadable transcription software packages.
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  • Excel for evaluation

    This website, created by Ann Emery, provides a series of short videos on using Microsoft Excel to analyze data.
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  • Week 34: Alternatives to transcribing interviews

    Being able to compare alternatives is essential when designing an evaluation.
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  • Positioning participation on the power spectrum

    In the second blog in the 4-part series about participation in evaluation, Irene Guijt and Leslie Groves focus on making power relationships and values in 'participatory' evaluation processes explicit to avoid tokenistic participation.
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  • Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy influence

    This handbook from the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) is designed to support research institutions develop monitoring an
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  • Interviews

    Interviews are conversations between an investigator (interviewer) and a respondent (‘interviewees’, ‘informants’ or ‘sources’) in which questions are asked in order to obtain information.
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  • In-depth interviews

    An in-depth interview is a type of interview with an individual that aims to collect detailed information beyond initial and surface-level answers.
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  • Regression discontinuity

    Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental evaluation option that measures the impact of an intervention, or treatment, by applying a treatment assignment mechanism based on a continuous eligibility index which is a varia
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  • 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.
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  • Knowledge management and organizational learning

    This article provides an overview of knowledge management and it's role in organisational learning.
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  • Quasi-experimental methods for impact evaluations

    This video lecture, given by Dr Jyotsna Puri for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), demonstrates how the use of quasi-experimental methods can circumvent the challenge of creating
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