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  • EAA advocacy evaluation guide

    This guide, written by Cristina Mansfield for Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), presents a set of simple guidelines that can be used for evaluating advocacy initiatives.
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  • The value iceberg: weighing the benefits of advocacy and campaigning

    BetterEvaluation Discussion Paper 1 is a thought piece written by Rhonda Schlangen and Jim Coe (independent consultants), members of the BetterEvaluation Community, and is intended to promote discussion.
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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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  • 9 free books for learning data mining & data analysis

    This list compiled by Alex Ivanovs brings together a range of books aimed at both beginners and those who are looking to fill in gaps in their knowledge.
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  • Data collection & analysis video

    This video guide from UNICEF looks at the issues involved  in choosing and using data collection and analysis methods for impact evaluations.  
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  • Dabbling in the data

    The guide and toolkit, Dabbling in the Data, includes detailed instructions for teams to use to delve more deeply into quantitative and qualitative data.
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  • Eval C3

    EvalC3 is an organised set of tools for developing, exploring and evaluating predictive models of expected outcomes. This resource and the following information was contributed by  Rick Davies. 
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  • The advocacy iceberg - episode 1: the value iceberg

    The pilot episode of this new podcast by Jim Coe features an interview with Rhonda Schlangen, co author with Jim of The Value Iceberg, a BetterEvaluation Discussion Paper about how the important elements of
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  • Canva

    Canva is a very simple, free to use, online infographic creation platform. It has a drag and drop interface and a range of templates that you can adapt.
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  • Big data for development: challenges & opportunities

    This white paper by UN Global Pulse examines the use of Big Data in development contexts.
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  • Feminist evaluation approach is not just about women

    I am at the European Evaluation Society conference in Helsinki and I attended the gender and evaluation session to learn more about approaches and practices.
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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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  • Geospatial analysis in evaluation

    This blog from the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) highlights the role of geospatial data in understanding change in phenomena, and answering questions of relevance and effectiveness of development interventions.
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  • BetterEvaluation FAQ: How do you go about analyzing data that has been collected from respondents via a questionnaire?

    In this edition of the BE FAQ blog, we address a question that comes up quite often: How do you go about analysing data that has been collected from respondents via a questionnaire?
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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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  • Digital dividends in natural resource management

    The report sets out research findings on the "digital dividends" of various types of technology on natural resource management in low and middle-income countries.
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  • Advocacy and policy change: Theory and practice

    This book provides an evidence-based guide, toolkit and collection of evaluation cases for conducting effective advocacy and policy change evaluations.
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  • Amplifying nonprofit voices: Bridging the advocacy evaluation gap

    This evaluation research report aims to better understand nonprofit advocates' ability to evaluate their advocacy capacity, strategies, and tactics; identify their evaluation needs; and develop recommendations on advocate-friendly evaluatio
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  • Issues in assessing the policy influence of research

    This paper presents a methodology for assessing the influence of research on public policy.
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  • A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence

    Using a literature review and interviews, this paper aims to provide an overview of the different approaches to monitoring and evaluating policy influence.
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  • The Center for Evaluation Innovation

    The Center for Evaluation Innovation focuses on expanding evaluation practice in new directions and into new arenas.
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  • The Art of Assessing the Impact of Advocacy Work

    This paper explores the complex and changing nature of advocacy work, arguing that in many cases standardized forms of Monitoring & Evaluation/ Impact Analysis (M&E/IA) are likely to be inappropriate, as they will probably
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  • Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy influence

    This handbook from the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) is designed to support research institutions develop mon
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  • Assessing the impact of research on policy

    The authors of this review analyse various evaluation methods (including ethnographic and quantitative approaches, focus groups, process tracing, and network mapping and analysis) to find out which ones are the most suitable to evaluate the
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  • Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI)

    Founded in 1998 as a project of the Independent Sector, the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI, now the Council for Nonprofits Everyday Advocacy) is
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  • Advocacy impact evaluation

    This paper from Michael Quinn Patton presents a retrospective case study in which the  the potential influence of judicial advocacy efforts targeted at the Supreme Court is assessed.
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  • Overview of current advocacy evaluation practice

    This paper from the Center for Evaluation Innovation provides a detailed overview of advocacy evaluation with a focus on the approaches being used.
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  • Making change happen: Advocacy and citizen participation

    This paper provides an overview of issues related to advocacy and citizen participation, and may serve as a starting point for evaluation of the advocacy efforts of an organisation.
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  • Unique Methods in Advocacy Evaluation

    This document describes four unique advocacy evaluation methods for assessing advocacy and policy change. 
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  • Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program Tools

    The Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) provides a range of free online Continuous Progress Tools to support advocacy evaluation.. 
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  • The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy

    This article describes the challenges of evaluating advocacy organizations and outlines possible approaches that donors might use.
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  • Green Media Toolshed

    Green Media Toolshed is a website that aims to provide tools and training to improve the effectiveness of 'green' messages' to the public from environmental movements"Green Media Toolshed's goals are to:
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