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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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  • Evaluation executive summaries & reports

    This blog by Stephanie Evergreen curates a number of examples of engaging executive summaries and evaluation reports. The focus is on highlighting effective visual design of these reporting formats.
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  • 52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 23: Tips for delivering negative results

     
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  • Checklist for straightforward evaluation reports

    This checklist by Kelly N. Robertson and Lori Wingate provides suggestions for the content and organization of long-form evaluation reports that are concise, easy to understand, and easy to navigate.
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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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  • Household vulnerability and resilience to economic shocks

    This project into Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks, a collaboration between RMIT University, Oxfam Australia, Deakin University and the University of the South Pacific, gives a good example of the way tha
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  • What makes a popular science video on YouTube

    This article by Dustin Welbourne and Will J Grant in The Conversation discusses ways to make a video about science popular and effective in its communication, highlighting a number of key features that are demonstrated through embedded exam
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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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  • Week 15: Fitting reporting methods to evaluation findings – and audiences

    This week we're sharing some ideas from Rakesh Mohan on ways of making evaluation reports more interesting. 
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  • Toonlet

    This web-based application makes it possible to draw cartoons, by creating characters and then placing them into the panels of a cartoon with appropriate text.
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  • Infographics

    An infographic (short for 'information graphic') represents data visually so that the information is able to be quickly and easily understood.
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  • Cartoons

    Cartoon images can be used by evaluators to an understanding of program impact, scenes of program implementation, main findings or issues.
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  • Graphic recording

    Graphic recording is the translation of conversations into images and text on large sheets of paper during meetings and events.
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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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  • Reporting style guide template

    This style guide template is designed to ensure consistency in formatting across various project documents, including evaluation plans, reports, and presentations.
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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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  • A short primer on innovative evaluation reporting

    This book by Kylie Hutchinson presents a number of innovative ways of reporting, including different methods for presentations, narrative summaries, presenting findings visually and making use of digital outputs.
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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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