The BetterEvaluation Resource Library contains hundreds of curated and co-created resources related to managing, conducting, using, and strengthening capacity for evaluation.
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A resource guide for hosting conversations that matter at The World Café
This resource provides a detailed guide to creating conversations and networks around shared interests using the World Cafe.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 effectiveneRecommendation of the Council on public policy evaluation
This recommendation on public policy evaluation, created by the OECD, encourages governments to institutionalise public policy evaluation across all government areas.OECD-DAC principles for evaluation of development assistance
The OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation has updated the evaluation criteria definitions and principles for use after 25 years.Applying evaluation criteria thoughtfully
This guidance aims to help evaluators better understand the OECD-Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria and improve their use.Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating communities
This book from the Center for Digital Storytelling outlines the philosophy and practice involved with using digital storytelling in a development context.The prose and cons of poetic representation in evaluation reporting
"[T]his article… make[s] a case for and demonstrate[s] the use of poetic transcription as one form of presenting evaluation findings." (MacNeil, 2000 p. 359)WHO evaluation practice handbook
This handbook from the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides step-by-step guidance for conducting evaluations in WHO.Impact evaluation in practice
This book from the World Bank provides a detailed introduction to impact evaluations in the development field. It also provides several tools and approaches for conducting impact evaluations.How to design and manage equity-focused evaluations
This guide from UNICEF is divided into two parts. It begins by defining equity and its importance and relevance today.Evaluation reporting: A guide to help ensure use of evaluation findings
This guide addresses the issue of ensuring that evaluation findings are used by stakeholders.A short primer on innovative evaluation reporting
This book by Kylie Hutchinson presents a number of innovative ways of reporting, including different methods for presentations, narrative summaries, presenting findings visually and making use of digital outputs.Recommendations in evaluation
This presentation, given by Lori Wingate for the Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, takes a look at the 'why, what and how' of making recommendations in an evaluation.Qualitative 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 usiHow to manage an evaluation and disseminate its results
This guide from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) outlines the roles and responsibilities of evaluation managers during and after the evaluation has taken place.The magenta book: Guidance for evaluation
This guide, from H M Treasury, originally published in 2011 and updated in 2020, is the central guidance for all UK government departments on evaluation.Handbook on evaluation
This handbook, edited by Prof Dr Reinhard Stockmann, provides a systematic and comprehensive exploration into the planning, process, implementation and utilisation of evaluations.Evaluation and communication decision-making: A practitioner's guide
Designed for evaluators, communication planners, and project implementers interested in capacity development, this primer combines utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) design with communication planning.