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• What is evaluation?
• Manage evaluation
• Choose methods and processes
• Strengthen evaluation capacity

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About BetterEvaluation

• About us
• Our principles
• Governance
• Our Theory of Change
• Our capacity strengthening approach
• Our research and innovation

Manage

• Understand and engage with stakeholders
• Establish decision making processes
• Decide who will conduct the evaluation
• Determine and secure resources
• Define ethical and quality evaluation standards
• Document management processes and agreements
• Develop evaluation plan, framework or policy
• Review evaluation (do meta-evaluation)
• Develop evaluation capacity

Define

• Develop initial description
• Develop program theory/logic model
• Identify potential unintended results

Frame

• Identify primary intended users
• Decide purposes
• Specify the key evaluation questions
• Determine what 'success' looks like

Describe

• Sample
• Use measures, indicators or metrics
• Collect and/ or retrieve data
• Manage data
• Combine qualitative and quantitative data
• Analyse data
• Visualise data

Understand Causes

• Check the results support causal attribution
• Compare results to the counterfactual
• Investigate possible alternative explanations

Synthesise

• Synthesise data from a single evaluation
• Synthesise data across evaluations
• Generalise findings

Report & Support Use

• Identify reporting requirements
• Develop reporting media
• Ensure accessibility
• Develop recommendations
• Support use

• Appreciative Inquiry
• Beneficiary Assessment
• Case study
• Causal Link Monitoring
• Collaborative Outcomes Reporting
• Contribution Analysis
• Critical System Heuristics
• Democratic Evaluation
• Developmental Evaluation
• Empowerment Evaluation
• Horizontal Evaluation
• Innovation History
• Institutional Histories

• Most Significant Change
• Outcome Harvesting
• Outcome Mapping
• Participatory Evaluation
• Participatory Rural Appraisal
• Positive Deviance
• Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol 
• Randomised Controlled Trials
• Realist Evaluation
• Social Return on Investment
• Success Case Method
• Utilisation-Focused Evaluation

Types of evaluation:

• Evaluability assessment
• Impact evaluation
• Sustained and emerging impact evaluation (SEIE)​

Cross-cutting themes:

• Complexity
• Evaluation and children
• Evaluation practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander settings
• Feminist evaluation
• Gender analysis
• Network evaluation
• Using technologies for evaluation in insecure settings

Sector:

• Agriculture
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Humanitarian action

Types of intervention:

• Capacity development
• Impact investing
• Organisational performance
• Policy influence and advocacy