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  • Developmental evaluation: Diagnostic checklist

    This checklist aims to help users assess whether Developmental Evaluation is a good fit for your situation.
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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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  • 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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  • Institutional history

    An institutional history (IH) is a narrative that records key points about how institutional arrangements – new ways of working – have evolved over time and have created and contributed to more effective ways to achieve project or programme
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  • Evaluation report checklist

    This checklist was developed by drawing upon and reflecting on The Program Evaluation Standards which were created for the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 1994.  
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  • Evaluation contract checklist

    This checklist is designed to help evaluators and clients identify key contractual issues that require agreement before an evaluation can commence.
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  • Evaluation plans and operations checklist

    This checklist from the Evaluation Checklists Project provides a guide to those interested in conducting a preliminary, formative metaevaluation.
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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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  • 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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  • CIPP evaluation model checklist

    Stufflebeam provides an explanation of what CIPP is, and a checklist designed to help evaluators evaluate programs with relatively long-term goals.
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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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  • Information request checklist

    This resource is a checklist designed to guide evaluators when starting a new project, ensuring they gather essential information to support their evaluation efforts.
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  • Evaluation request for proposals (RFP) checklist

    This resource provides a checklist to ensure that your Request for Proposals (RFP) for evaluation services yields high-quality submissions.
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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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  • Focus groups

    A focus group is a type of group interview designed to explore peoples attitudes.
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