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  • The IDEAS guide and facilitators' guide

    The IDEAS Guide (Innovating, Designing, Evaluating and Applying to Small-scale projects) is a guide to the design and evaluation of small-scale media and communication projects where evaluation is built into the design of an initiative
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  • A cultural protocol for evaluation

    This resource explores important dimensions of cultural competency in evaluation. It focuses on cross-cultural understanding and culturally-appropriate attitudes and approaches.
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  • Six Thinking Hats

    This webpage from De Bono Consulting provides an overview of the six thinking hats and includes a range of free resources including guides and videos.
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  • Practical guide for engaging stakeholders in developing evaluation questions

    This guide from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was designed to support evaluators engage their stakeholders in the evaluation process.
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  • Evaluation question examples: Evaluation at country level, regional level, sector or thematic global evaluation

    This document contains example questions, many of which are drawn from country, regional, sector or thematic global evaluations undertaken by the Evaluation Unit.
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  • Evaluation questions: IPDET Handbook

    This module from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) outlines the process for creating and using different types of evaluation questions for a variety of purposes.
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  • Developing process evaluation questions

    This concise guide by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines evaluation questions and outlines the process needed to develop them. 
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  • Open space

    Open Space Technology (OST) is a group facilitation approach for small and large gatherings in which a central purpose, issue, or task is addressed, but which begins with a purposeful lack of any formal initial agenda.
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  • Formal meeting processes

    Studies have demonstrated that attendance at meetings and conferences, planning discussions within the project related to use of the program evaluation, and participation in data collection foster feelings of evaluation involvement among st
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  • Evaluation questions

    This site provides a step-by-step guide on how to identify appropriate questions for an evaluation.
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  • Six thinking hats

    The Six Thinking Hats method encourages participants to cycle through six different ways of thinking, using the metaphor of wearing different conceptual “hats”.
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  • World cafe

    The world café is a methodology for hosting group dialogue which emphasizes the power of simple conversation in considering relevant questions and themes.
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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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