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Twelve reasons why climate change adaptation M&E is challenging
This is the first guidance note in a series of three from the SEA Change Community of Practice and UKCIP that focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation projects.Selecting indicators for climate change adaptation programming
Written by Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn & Patrick Pringle, this note provides guidance on selecting appropriate indicators in program planning and assessment.Choosing visual properties for successful visualizations
This whitepaper, by Noah Iliinsky, IBM Visualisation Expert, covers the various visual properties of data visualisation and how to appropriately apply them to various types of data.Process Tracing - Draft Protocol
This protocol from Oxfam GB is aimed at supporting the understanding and use of process tracing when evaluating policy influencing interventions.The Joys of Using Haiku Deck to Make Gorgeous Slides
This blog post from Susan Kistler for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) provides guidance on using Haiku Deck for presentation slide decks.The seven secrets of good monitoring and evaluation
This is a webinar that was given by Jess Dart for Enabling Change and Innovation (archived link) on her seven secrets of good monitorinQualitative data analysis using data displays
This paper in the Nurse Researcher journal by Tracey Williamson and Andrew Long walks readers through the benefits of using a number of different types of data displays when presenting qualitatCan we obtain the required rigour without randomisation? Oxfam GB’s non-experimental Global Performance Framework
This paper, written by Karl Hughes and Claire Hutchings for the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), looks at Oxfam GB's practice of annual random selection of projects for evaluationUK Data Archive: Managing and Sharing Data
This document, created by the UK Data Archive, gives researchers an overview of the best practices involved in data management for long-term, accessible data storage, protection and archive.Real-time learning for social innovations: facilitating evaluation and strategy learning circles
This presentation, given by Carolyn Cohen for Matan/United Way Israel outlines the process for using Evaluation and Strategy Learning Circles.Estudio de casos
El estudio de casos tiene un potencial importante como método de investigación de la sociedad.Qualitative Methods in Rapid Turn-Around Health Services Research
This video presentation by Alison B. Hamilton for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) focuses on qualitative study design, data collection, and fundamentals of data analysis.Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Applied Social Research Methods)
This book focuses by Robert K. Yin on case study design and analysis as a distinct research tool with wide applicability.Designing and Conducting Research With Online Interviews
This first chapter of Janet Salmons' book, Cases in Online Interview Research, provides guidance to designing and conducting online interviews for research.Gender inequality and you
This edition of Evaluation Matters, from the African Development Bank, provides a range of discussion and case studies covering the key question: Does evaluation matter for gender and gender mainstreamiUsing Visual Communication to Increase Evaluation Utilization
This blog post from Nate Wilairat for Evergreen Data provides a range of tips for increasing evaluation utilization through the use of visual communication.Before & after slides: stay on the side of simplicity
This blog post from Stephanie Evergreen highlights the steps that were taken to revise the some presentation slides showing data.Presenting Graphs with the Slow Reveal
This blog post by Stephanie Evergreen demonstrates how to ensure that presentation slides introduce the components of complex graphics one at a time.Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
This guide from the OECD is aimed at improving program design, management and evaluation in areas of conflict and fragility.Conflict-sensitive monitoring and evaluation
This guide is Module 3 from Chapter 3 of Saferworld's resource packCase Study Research in Practice
This book, written by Helen Simons, guides the user in the design, implementation and communication of case study research.Young Lives Methods Guide: Introducing Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing
This guide describes how Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty, used Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) in place of paper based questionnaires.A Guide to Assessing Needs
This book, written by Ryan Watkins, Maurya West Meiers and Yusra Laila Visser for The World Bank, provides detailed guidance on needs assessment during the early stages of project development.Case selection techniques in Process-tracing and the implications of taking the study of causal mechanisms seriously
This paper by Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pedersen analyses the three variants of process tracing and goes on to develop guidelines for using each of them.Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines
In this book Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pedersen refine the definition of process tracing by breaking it into three different variants.Community Screenings for Participatory Video
This guide, written by Gareth Benest for InsightShare, provides advice running community screenings as part of a participatory video process.DFID’s Approach to Value for Money (VfM)
This guide from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) sets out the principles that are used to ensure value for money in DFIMeasuring the Un-Measurable: Solutions to Measurement Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-affected Environments
This guide, written by Vanessa Corlazzoli and Jonathan White for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), was developed to impSystems-oriented evaluation
In this presentation, Dr. Beverly Parsons for The Evaluation Center, outlines a framework for developing a systems-oriented evaluation.Will that successful intervention over there get results over here?
This blog post and its associated replies, written by Jed Friedman for the World Bank, describes a process of using analytic methods to overcome some of the assumptions that must be made when extrapolating results from evaluations to other12 Valuable Tips for Using Wordle in the Classroom
This blog post from 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning outlines 12 tips for using Wordle in the classroomHow to geotag images
This blog post by Darren Rowse for Digital Photography School provides detailed guidance on geotagging images.