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Dealing with complexity in development evaluation - A practical approach
This book offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can be undertaken in the real world of time, budget, data, and political constUtilization-Focused Evaluation: 4th edition
Useful for practitioners and students alike this book is both theoretical and practical. Features include follow-up exercises at the end of each chapter and a utilization-focused evaluation checklist.Evaluation report writing
What elements should you highlight in your evaluation reports? How can you craft your evaluation reports so they are both readable and useful for program managers? What is the right balance between narrative explanation and data visualization?Writing for professional audiences
American University’s Measurement & Evaluation program recently held a virtual workshop on Writing for Professional Audiences with Sherri McCarthy.Environment, climate change and assessment - towards a holistic view
This blog by Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility, points out that evaluation needs to take a new, holistic perspective to address serious environmental problems.Data ethics guidebook & toolkit
This data ethics guidebook and accompanying toolkit from Informing Change and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation deliver practical guidance and customizable tools for navigating ethical issues in research and evaluations.SAMEA knowledge compendium 2019
This resource, produced by the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) brings together a range of content about monitoring and evaluation practice.Evaluative thinking: SAMEA webinar
In this webinar on evaluative thinking, Thomas Schwandt explores two perspectives on the topic.Working with lived and living experience researchers: A practical framework
This blog provides guidance and examples on co-evaluating with lived and living experience (LLE) researchers.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.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 evaluatioWhen the world is in crisis, evaluation can provide answers
This session, presented as part of the 2023 gLocal Evaluation Week, explored different approaches to effectively address ecosystems' health and just transition in evaluations.Evaluation education in a world in transformation: The way forward
In this webinar, Dr Marcia Joppert presents the results of her doctoral dissertation; a study about mapping evaluation education opportunities globally and analysis of how they align with the skills of transformational evaluators and the neWhat is evaluation? (AEA statement)
A brief (4-page) overview that presents a statement from the American Evaluation Association defining evaluation as "a systematic process to determine merit, worth, value or significance".Making sense of evaluation: A handbook for everyone
This evaluation handbook, created by the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Unity (Superu), has been designed for those working in New Zealand's social sector who need to know more about how to measure and understand the effectiveness ofProfessionalization of evaluation competency framework for evaluators
This competency framework is designed to assist with strengthening professionalisation of evaluation in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.Key competencies for the monitoring function
This document sets out the functional competencies (skills, knowledge, attributes and behaviours) needed for effective monitoring.Evaluation competency framework for government
This document is a draft of the Evaluation Competency Framework (ECF) used by the South African Government.Competencies for development evaluation evaluators, managers, and commissioners
This paper from the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) provides a range of core competencies that evaluation managers and evaluators should possess wherever they work.A précis of the evaluation competency literature
This literature review, written by Robyn Bailey for the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA), outlines much of the literature that has been developed on evaluator competencies with a view to informing the development of a setEvaluator competencies 2011
This paper from the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA) outlines the purpose, use and principles behind the evaluator competencies developed to ensure cultural values are placed at the forefront of evaluation practice.Evaluator competencies: The South African Government experience
This article describes the South African government's process of developing evaluator competencies.The 2018 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Evaluator competencies
This document outlines the AEA's evaluator competency framework, developed through a collaborative process with members from 2015 to 2018.ThematicAnalysis.net
This website describes thematic analysis, "a range of qualitative research methods that are used for exploring and interpreting patterned meaning across datasets."Responsible data stewardship
This report from the Open Data Institute discusses key concepts including ‘data stewardship’, ‘data ethics’, ‘data justice’ ‘data for good’ ‘responsible data’, ‘data sovereignty’, ‘Indigenous data sovereignty’, and ‘data feminism’.Landscape analysis equity centered evaluation
This Southern-led research was facilitated by six Global South organizations from Latin America, Asia and Africa who joined forces to transform inequitable practices mainstreamed in the evaluation of international cooperation initiatives woCritical systems heuristics: A systematic review
This paper argues that critical systems heuristics (CSH) has been an influential approach, but one that is underutilised compared with other methods.What is impact evaluation?
This video lecture given by Professor Howard White for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) provides an introduction to the importance of impact evaluation.International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
The International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation is a network that brings together national and regional evaluation associations from around the world.Feminist evaluation and gender approaches: There’s a difference?
The purpose of this article is to provide readers with a historical overview and description of feminist evaluation and gender approaches.Use participatory tools in evaluation research
How might you use participatory tools like the Bridge Model and Seasonal Calendars to collect data? And how can you do so virtually?Using 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.