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  • The value iceberg: weighing the benefits of advocacy and campaigning

    BetterEvaluation Discussion Paper 1 is a thought piece written by Rhonda Schlangen and Jim Coe (independent consultants), members of the BetterEvaluation Community, and is intended to promote discussion.
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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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  • Reporting on outcomes: Setting performance expectations and telling performance stories

    This paper by John Mayne provides a practical guide to telling performance stories and setting expectations about what level of performance was expected.
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  • Week 48: The value iceberg

    Efforts to measure, quantify and compare the 'value' of different interventions have become popular as a way for social change organisations to decide how to use their time and money.
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  • Evaluations that make a difference: Stories from around the world

    What is the value of evaluation and can stories provide a good way of communicating evaluation findings?
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  • BetterEvaluation FAQ: How can you get stakeholders to articulate how they think a program or project works?

    In our last newsletter we drew attention to our method page on
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating communities

    This book from the Center for Digital Storytelling outlines the philosophy and practice involved with using digital storytelling in a development context.
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  • Evaluations that make a difference

    This collection gathers eight stories from around the world about evaluations that have made a difference to the lives of people.
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  • Storytelling

    This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on the use of storytelling as a way of effectively communicating both emotional and factual content to contextualise the ideas or experiences being shared. 
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  • Using sensemaker to understand girls' education in Ethiopia

    This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education among pastoralist communities in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
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  • Using SenseMaker in child-centred research

    This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education in Ethiopia.
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