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  • Participatory video and the most significant change. A guide for facilitators

    The toolkit is designed to support you in planning and carrying out evaluations using participatory video (PV) with the most significant change (MSC) technique, or PVMSC for short.
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  • Dr. Richard Kreuger on qualitative listening

    In this interview in The Listening Resource blog (August 29th, 2013), Susan Eliot talks to Dr.
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  • Webinar recording: When the ‘field’ is online – qualitative data collection

    This NVIVO webinar explores ways that researchers can adapt their research approach using online data collection when face to face fieldwork isn’t possible.
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  • Strategy development: Most significant change (MSC)

    This guide to the Most Significant Change approach, by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), provides an overview, a detailed description of the process, and an example of the technique in action.
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  • International advocacy evaluation community of practice's webinar

    In this webinar from the International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice demonstrates how Most Significant Change and Participatory Video were used to e
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  • Some nuts and bolts questions about coding

    This guest blog by Helen Marshall springs from discussions of the Qualitative Interest Group (QIG) that Helen coordinates. QIG meets monthly in Melbourne Australia to discuss issues around researching with qualitative data.&n
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  • L’évaluation en contexte de développement

    Ce manuel est destiné aux personnes souhaitant s’initier à l’évaluation de programmes, en particulier en contexte de développement et de coopération internationale. À cet égard, tout en déroulant le fil d’une démarche évaluative classique, il présente…
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  • Memos and journals for analysis

    Memos and journals are useful tools to support reflection, record-keeping, and rigour throughout qualitative data analysis.
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  • Using Most Significant Change to measure impact

    Evaluators often struggle to measure impact in cases where using an experimental design is not feasible.
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  • Most significant change: Learning to learn

    This webpage from the South Australian Government's Learning to Learn (L2L) program offers an overview of the study and practice of the Most Significant Change (MSC) approach.
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  • The most significant change technique

    This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) outlines the process for using Most Significant Change in evaluation. It provides a step by step process that can be followed to ensure its effective implementation.
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  • Most significant change

    The Most Significant Change (MSC) approach involves generating and analysing personal accounts of change and deciding which is the most significant – and why.
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  • Introduction to qualitative research methodology

    This manual, written by Karina Kielmann, Fabian Cataldo and Janet Seeley, aims to give readers of a non-scientific background an introduction to key theoretical concepts and methodologies in qualitative research.
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  • Clearing the fog: New tools for improving the credibility of impact claims

    This IIED Briefing Paper shows that the methods of process tracing and Bayesian updating can facilitate a dialogue between theory and evidence that allows for the assessing of the degree of confidence in ‘contribution claims’ in a transpare
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  • Discussion note: Complexity aware monitoring

    USAID’s Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research (LER) has produced a Discussion Note: Complexity-Aware Monitoring, intended for those seeking cutting-edge solutions to monitoring complex aspects of strategies and projects.  
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  • The 'Most Significant Change' technique - A guide to its use

    Essential reading for anyone seeking to use the 'Most Significant Change' (MSC) technique.
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  • Técnica del “Cambio Más Significante” (MSC, por sus siglas en inglés) - Guía para su uso

    La técnica del cambio más significante (MSC, por sus siglas en inglés) es una forma de monitoreo y evaluación participativa.
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  • モスト・シグニフィカント・チェンジ (MSC)手法

    モスト・シグニフィカント・チェンジ(MSC)手法は、参加型モニタリング・評価手法の一つである。 記録すべき変化の決定やデータ分析の過程に、多くの利害関係者(ステーク ホルダー)が関与することから、参加型と言える。また、プログラム・サイクルの全工程 で実施され、プログラムを実施管理するうえで有効な情報を提供することから、モニタリ ング手法と言える。さらに、プログラム全体の業績を評価するうえで有用であり、インパ クトや効果に関する情報を提供してくれる。
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  • Thematic coding

    Thematic coding is a form of qualitative analysis that involves recording or identifying passages of text or images that are linked by a common theme or idea allowing you to index the text into categories and therefore establish a “framewor
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