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  • Tool kit on gender equality results and indicators

    This tool kit, written by Juliet Hunt for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and AusAID, aims to provide development practitioners with the knowledge and tools necessary to ensure gender perspectives are considered when developing intern
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  • Excel charts: Pie charts

    This webpage, written by Jorge Camoes for ExcelCharts, outlines the arguments for and against using pie charts and then provides detailed advice and some dos and don'ts for using them.
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  • My “home-made” evaluation tools to avoid gender (and equity) blindness by Sara Vaca

    In this AEA365 'Rad Resource' blog post, Sara Vaca discusses the importance and challenges of introducing a Gender perspective into evaluations - even when this is not included in the evaluation ToRs.
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  • 10 Techniques for building a google sheets dashboard

    This is a step-by-step guide for creating a dashboard with Google Sheets (a free, online spreadsheet application).
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  • EvalPartners website

    The EvalPartners website is both a source of knowledge about monitoring and evaluation practices and a network to connect practitioners from around the world.
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  • UNICEF: Statistics and Monitoring

    In collaboration with a wide range of partners, UNICEF gathers evidence on the situation of children and women around the world.
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  • WISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education

    WISE's website organises a large amount of statistics resources available on the web into one central place.
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  • How to manage gender-responsive evaluation

    This handbook, produced by the Independent Evaluation Office for UN Women, is aimed at supporting those who are implementing gender-respo
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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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  • The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)

    This slide show provides an overview of this option and lists the advantages and disadvantages of its use. There are also a number of examples of covariance and linear regression equations. 
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  • Contemporary thinking about causation in evaluation

    This paper was produced following a discussion between Thomas Cook and Michael Scriven held at The Evaluation Center and Western Michigan University’s Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program jointly hosted Evaluation Cafe´ event on
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  • Objectives-Based Evaluation (OBE) for impact investing

    Bob Picciotto is a former Director General of the Independent Evaluation Group which oversees evaluation in the International Finance Corporation, an agency dedicated to the promotion of private sector development in developi
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  • Week 29: Evaluation design and unintended consequences or, from firefighting to systematic action

    This week’s blog is from Jonny Morell, editor of Evaluation and Program Planning and author of
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  • BE FAQ: How do I prepare and distribute Request for Proposal and Terms of Reference documents?

    We often get email enquiries asking for advice about preparing the documents used to invite evaluators to assemble proposals for an evaluation.
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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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  • The environment and disease: Association or causation?

    In this original article from 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, Professor Emeritus of Medical Statistics, lays out what will ultimately come to be known as the Bradford Hill criteria.
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  • Read and contribute to evaluation journals

    In this blog, Patricia Rogers explores how you can make the most of evaluation journals.
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  • Open space world

    Open Space World is a global community resource supporting the use of the Open Space method by which groups of any size can create effective meetings and events.
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  • System Mapping: A case example

    Innovation Network has used syst
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  • Descriptive and multivariate statistics

    In this chapter from Exploring Crime Analysis Readings on Essential Skills, the key principles of descriptive and multivariate statistics are demonstrated so as to provide practitioners with the basic
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  • Internet questionnaire

    An internet questionnaire allows the collection of data through an electronic set of questions that are posted on the web. 
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  • Peer learning

    Peer learning refers to a practitioner-to-practitioner approach in which the transfer of tacit knowledge is particularly important (Andrews and Manning 2016).
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  • Negative programme theory

    Most programme theories, logic models and theories of change show how an intervention is expected to contribute to positive impacts; Negative programme theory, a technique developed by Carol Weiss, shows how it might produce negative impact
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  • Who counts? The power of participatory statistics

    This workshop by Jeremy Holland for the Institute of Development Studies was streamed live on May 1st, 2014.
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  • Designing participatory meetings and brownbags: A TOPS quick guide to linking development practitioners

    This short guide by the Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program and USAID focuses on identifying appropriate formats and approaches for presentations, group discussions and problem solving sessions to enhance
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  • Shaping international evaluation: A 30-year journey

    This book from Universalia Management Group presents major trends that have influenced international evaluation and provides an overview of the evolution of evaluation within specific sectors, such as the environment and agriculture.
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  • Evaluation journals

    Evaluation journals play an important role in documenting, developing, and sharing theory and practice. They are an important component in strengthening evaluation capacity.
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  • Frequency distribution tables

    This webpage from Statistics Canada demonstrates how to construct four different types of frequency distribution tables. Each example comes with clear instructions and a detailed example of the final product.
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  • Pact's capacity development evaluation

    Pact envisioned OPI filling a gap in traditional capacity development measurements, moving beyond measuring outputs toward capturing capacity development outcomes.
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  • Causal link monitoring

    Causal Link Monitoring (CLM) is an evaluation approach that combines implementation design and monitoring to support adaptive management of projects, helping project planners and managers to identify processes needed to achieve desired outcomes.
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  • Iterative design and monitoring for adaptive management: How causal link monitoring can help

    Development actors are embracing the concept and practice of adaptive management, using evidence to inform ongoing revisions throughout implementation.
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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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