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This video guide, produced by UNICEF, outlines three broad strategies for causal attribution: 1) estimating the counterfactual; 2) checking the consistency of evidence for the causal relationships mResourceMulti-stakeholder partnerships: Building blocks for success
This report provides an evidence-based assessment of the performance of multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development concluding that the overall performance of partnerships is mixed at best, and discussing factors that increasResourceProving and Improving the Impact of Development Partnerships - 12 Good Practices for Results Measurement
This report summarises 12 good practices of results measurement in development partnerships with the private sector, and includes a number of case studies and practical examples.ResourcePartnership Indicators: Measuring the effectiveness of multi-sector approaches to service provision
This paper provides considerations for the creation of partnership indicators for tri-partite partnerships (private sector, public sector and civil society/NGOs) in water and sanitation provision for poor communities in developing countriesResourceDiscussion Paper: Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation
This discussion paper produced by the United Nations Development Programme discusses various innovations that are occurring in M&E, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.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.ResourceContemporary 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 onResourceSome nuts and bolts questions about coding
This guest blog by Helen Marshall springs from discussions of the Qualitative Interest Group (QIG) that Helen coordinates. QIG meets monthly in Melbourne Australia to discuss issues around researching with qualitative data.&nBlogOutcome 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&nbsBlogBradford Hill criteria for causal inference
Based on a presentation at the 2015 ANZEA Conference, this free downloadable book presents the Bradford Hill criteria and discusses some ways of using them in practice to draw causal conclusions.ResourceThe 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.ResourceEnvironmental flows monitoring and assessment framework
This resource from the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology provides a framework for assessing environmental flow management plans.ResourceMaking causal claims
This brief, authored by John Mayne for the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative argues the need for a different perspective on causality.ResourceImpact evaluation: A guide for commissioners and managers
This guide, written by Elliot Stern, aims to support managers and commissioners in gaining a deeper and broader understanding of impact evaluation.ResourceMulti-stakeholder partnerships guide - Online portal
This online portal includes over useful 60 tools and methods especially selected to support and evaluate multi-stakeholder partnership processes.ResourceDealing with paradox – Stories and lessons from the first three years of consortium-building
This case study documents and reflects upon the building of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (recently re-named START Network)ResourceCoding part 2: Thematic coding
This video tutorial from Graham H Gibbs (2010) provides an overview of thematic coding and examples to demostrate how it is done and how codes can be applied to the data.ResourceCoding part 1: Alan Bryman's 4 stages of qualitative analysis
In this web video, Graham R Gibbs provides an overview of qualitative analysis based on Alan Bryman's four stages of analysis.ResourceThe rigor of case-based causal analysis: Busting myths through a demonstration
This paper focuses on the utilisation of case-based designs for conducting causal analysis and dispelling two misconceptions about their use in the context of evaluation.ResourceAnalysing qualitative data using Microsoft Word
In this slide show, Jenna Condie, who is presenting a Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) workshop, explains how Word supports detailed coding, including developing detailed definitions of the codes and tracking comments and emerging iResourceHow can we assess the value of working in partnerships?
Tiina Pasanen (Overseas Development Institute) shares her reflections from the 2016 'M&E on the Cutting Edge' Conference Partnering for Success, and asks, how do we learn what type of partnerships work well, under what conditions anBlogUNICEF webinar: Overview: strategies for causal inference
What is causal attribution? Do you need a counterfactual to determine if something has caused a change? Professor Patricia Rogers provides an overview of how to determine causal attribution in impact evaluations.ResourceUsing Word & Excel to analyze qualitative data with Seth Tucker
Extracting meaningful findings from qualitative data requires an evaluator to have the right tools to able to organize, code, and immerse themselves in the data.ResourceThe art of coding with NVivo
During this virtual workshop, Dr. Penna presented how NVivo, qualitative data analysis software is used to code data, document the data analysis process, and present a visual presentation of the results to increase credibility.ResourceOutcome monitoring and learning in large multi-stakeholder research programmes: lessons from the PRISE consortium
This discussion paper outlines the key lessons to emerge from designing and applying an outcome monitoring system to the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies (PRISE) project.ResourceQualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice
The fourth edition of Michael Quinn Patton's Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods Integrating Theory and Practice, published by Sage Publications, analyses and provides clear guidance and advice for usiResourceMonitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically
This article explores the challenges of monitoring and evaluating politically informed and adaptive programmes in the international development field. Authors Thomas Aston, Chris Roche, Marta Schaaf & Sue Cant.ResourceThematic coding
Thematic coding is a form of qualitative analysis that involves recording or identifying passages of text or images that are linked by a common theme or idea allowing you to index the text into categories and therefore establish a “frameworMethod