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Filter search resultsWhat is a Dashboard? Defining dashboards, visual analysis tools and other data presentation media
The Dashboard Insight website contains a number of useful articles, examples and guides on the subject of Organizational Dashboards.ResourceData dashboard as evaluation and research communication tool
This chapter by Veronica Smith aims to provide a sound framework and guidelines for evaluators, researchers, and program staff to design, develop, maintain, and use a data dashboard as an effective communication tool for monitoring progressResourceEvergreen Data
Stephanie Evergreen's website and blog provides ample reading and guidance on data visualization techniques, taking a research-based approach to effective communication of ideas.ResourceHow to Design Effective Dashboards
This one-hour webinar on How to Design Effective Dashboards from Infragistics aims to show viewers how to design dashboards that will help with business decisions.ResourceThe Complete Beginner’s Guide to Dashboard Design
This blog post by Abjhijit Rawool gives guidance on creating dashboards that are based around the users' needs. Though discussed in relation to web applications, the lessons are applicable more broadly.ResourceUSAID collaborating, learning and adapting in action case competition library
USAID's annual Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition captures case studies of USAID staff and implementing partners using a CLA approach for organizational learning and better development outcomes.ResourceDevelopmental evaluation: Diagnostic checklist
This checklist aims to help users assess whether Developmental Evaluation is a good fit for your situation.ResourceOPM's approach to assessing value for money
A clear and well-informed guide to evaluating value for money which addresses important issues including the limitations of using indicators epsecially for complex interventions, and the need to address unintended impacts and complicated caResource10 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).ResourceHow does the commissioning process hinder the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation?
Drawing on interviews with 19 UK evaluation commissioners and contractors, this paper investigates the role of evaluation commissioning in hindering the take-up of complexity-appropriate evaluation methods and explores ways of improving thiResourceThe hidden life of theories of change
One common criticism of Theory of Change is that it is often used as a framework that fixes agreements rather than as a living, guiding tool that helps reflection and adaptation.ResourceEvaluability assessment for impact evaluation
This document provides an overview of the utility of and specific guidance and a tool for implementing an evaluability assessment before an impact evaluation is undertaken.ResourceWhen and how to develop an impact-oriented monitoring and evaluation system
Many development programme staff have had the experience of commissioning an impact evaluation towards the end of a project or programme only to find that the monitoring system did not provide adequate data about implementation, context, baResourceSynchronizing monitoring with the pace of change in complexity
This discussion note from USAID argues for synchronizing monitoring with the pace of change as a key principle underlying complexity-aware monitoring.ResourceMaking adaptive rigour work: Principles and practices for strengthening monitoring, evaluation and learning for adaptive management
This briefing from the Global Learning for Adaptive Management (GLAM) initiative sets out key elements of an ‘adaptive rigour’ approach to adaptive management.ResourceComplexity-aware monitoring, evaluation & learning tools for social and behavior change interventions
This toolkit contains three tools to help design and evaluate complexity-aware social and behavior Change interventions. This resource and the following information was contributed by Lenette Golding.ResourceAdapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 - Part 1: Manage
Organisations around the world are quickly having to adapt their programme and project activities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. We’re starting a new blog series to help support these efforts.BlogAdapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 — Part 3: Frame
Evaluation needs to respond to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. As well as direct implications for the logistics of collecting data and managing evaluation processes, the pandemic has led to rapid changesBlogAdapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 – Part 4: Describe
We’re continuing our series, sharing ideas and resources on ways of ensuring that evaluation adequately responds to the new challenges during the pandemic.BlogOutcome monitoring in large multi-stakeholder research programmes: Lessons from PRISE
This guest blog by Tiina Pasanen and Kaia Ambrose discusses how the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies (PRISE) project approached the challenge of coming up with&nbsBlogWhat do we mean by ‘impact’?
International development is fixated with impact. But how do we know we’re all talking about the same thing?BlogDoes evaluation need to be done differently to support adaptive management?
Adaptive management is usually understood to refer to an iterative process of reviewing and making changes to programmes and projects throughout implementation.BlogLearning about learning in an adaptive programme
Last week, we started our focus on Adaptive Management with a blog post by Patricia Rogers that exploredBlogHow evaluation embraces and enriches adaptation: A UFE approach
In this guest blog, Sonal Zaveri (with input from the DECI team) discusses why aBlogData dashboard
Stephen Few defines a dashboard as: "A data dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, with the data consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the informaMethodUsing evaluation for adaptive management
Adaptive management refers to an approach to managing under conditions of ongoing uncertainty.MethodAn overview of monitoring and evaluation for adaptive management (working paper #1)
This paper is the first in the BetterEvaluation Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptive Management working paper series.ResourceWhat is adaptive management and how does it work? (working paper #2)
This is the second paper in the BetterEvaluation Working Paper Series, Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptive Management.ResourceReal-time evaluation (Working paper #4)
Real-time evaluation (RTE) has been practised and documented over the past 20 years, initially in humanitarian projects.ResourceAdapting evaluation in the time of COVID-19 — Part 2: Define
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to rapid changes in the activities and goals of many organisations, whether these relate to addressing direct health impacts, the consequential economic and social impacts or to the need to change the way thingBlogRapid evaluation
Rapid Evaluation is an approach designed to quickly and systematically conduct an evaluation when time or resources are limited.ApproachLearning to Make All Voices Count - Leveraging Complexity-Aware MEL to Pursue Change in Complex Systems
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