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This video guide from UNICEF looks at the issues involved in choosing and using data collection and analysis methods for impact evaluations.ResourceWebinar 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.ResourceCollecting data on sensitive issues
Image: Polling Booths, by PetroleumJelliffe on FlickrBlogAssessing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’: A Process-Tracing Study of the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index
This report applies a process-tracing approach to understand the policy impact of indicators and contributes to debates about assessing the impact of development research.ResourceComparative Hypothesis Testing Via Process Tracing
This article by by Ingo Rohlfing argues that the understanding of the doubly decisive test is misleading and that it lumps together the criteria of uniqueness and contradiction.Extract AbstractResourceBig data for development: challenges & opportunities
This white paper by UN Global Pulse examines the use of Big Data in development contexts.ResourceGoing Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies
This paper by Tasha Fairfield asks how policymakers can get around obstacles that prevent taxing economic elites.ResourceRethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Second Edition)
This second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry has the aim of redirecting ongoing discussions of methodology in social and political science.ResourceProcess tracing: Introduction and exercises
This document provides an overview of the method of process tracing and a series of examples and exercises to aid in its teaching .ResourceL’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…ResourceBest of AEA365: Approaching document review in a systematic way
In this blog post, Linda Cabral discusses document reviews and highlights the importance of conducting them systematically.ResourceThe most significant change: Using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation - insight guide
This article describes experiments done by Insight using participatory video(PV) for monitoring and evaluation, in particular the combination of Most Significant Change (MSC) ideas with PV.ResourcePress release example: Balancing accountability and improvement
This example of a press release discusses the release of a voluntary statewide survey about patients’ experiences with inpatient care at Massachusetts hospitals.ResourceSupporting good evaluation
This presentation and paper from the Bruner Foundation guides the reader through the evaluation process and provides a step by step process for commissioning an evaluation.ResourceCommunicating and reporting on an evaluation
This module helps private voluntary organization staff facilitate learning among individuals, groups, and organizations by communicating and reporting evaluation processes and findings more effectively.ResourceIncreasing participation in evaluation – Bruner Foundation guide
The "Increasing participation in evaluation" bulletin was developed by Anita Baker with Beth Bruner to help organizations integrate evaluative thinking into their organizational practice.ResourceMultimedia project evaluation rubric
This rubric from Teacherworld.com is designed for the evaluation of multimedia projects and it contains eleven criteria, with four grading options.ResourcePurposes of assessment - Keystone guide
This webpage from Keystone Accountability outlines the six major reasons that social organizations monitor, assess and report their performance and results.ResourceImpact evaluation steering committee: Terms of reference
These Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Impact Evaluation Steering Committee for the Research Into Use (RIU) programme outlines the functions, objectives and outputs of the steering committee.ResourceData collection methods for evaluation: Document review
This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a brief guide to using document review as a data collection method for evaluation.ResourceEvaluation in family support services
This online guide, written by Robyn Parker and published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, aims to prompt family support service providers to think carefully and systematically about evaluaResourceUNICEF webinar: Overview of data collection and analysis methods in Impact Evaluation
What is the value of using mixed methods in impact evaluation? What methods and designs are appropriate for answering descriptive, causal and evaluative questions?ResourceProcess tracing
Process tracing is a case-based and theory-driven method for causal inference that applies specific types of tests to assess the strength of evidence for concluding that an intervention has contributed to changes that have been observed orMethodUnderstanding process tracing
This 2011 paper, from David Collier, outlines a new framework for process tracing to achieve greater systemisation of qualitative methods. This version includes some reflections in 2019 on subsequent developments.ResourceProcess tracing and contribution analysis: A combined approach to generative causal inference for impact evaluation
This article, written by Barbara Befani and John Mayne for the IDS Bulletin (Volume 45 Number 6), outlines how the combined use of contribution analysis (CA) with process tracing (PT) can shift the focus of impResourceClearing 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 transpareResourceMaking rigorous causal claims in a real-life context: Has research contributed to sustainable forest management?
This article discusses an impact evaluation that examined the contribution of two forestry research centres - the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pourResourceCausal Pathways breakout session: Process tracing
This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, by Zoë Sutherland, explores process tracing and how it can be used to understand causal pathways.ResourceAssessing the contribution to market system change of the private enterprise programme Ethiopia
This IDS Bulletin paper examines an impact evaluation of the "Making Markets Work for the Poor" (M4P) program in Ethiopia.ResourceStraws-in-the-wind, hoops and smoking guns: What can process tracing offer to impact evaluation?
This discussion paper, written by Melanie Punton and Katharina Welle, looks at the potential use of Process Tracing in an impact evaluation context.ResourceProcess tracing as a practical evaluation method: Comparative learning from six evaluations
This 2020 paper by Alix Wadeson, Bernardo Monzani and Tom Aston presents and reflects on six evaluations where process tracing was used and identifies some key learnings.ResourceCausal Pathways 2023 Symposium and 2024 introductory sessions
This series of webinars was first presented at the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, which focused on "connecting, learning, and building a shared understanding of the evaluation and participatory practices that make causal pathways more visible"Resource