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Personal SWOT Analysis Example
This example of a SWOT Analysis from Lucidchart uses two fictional characters, Superman and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, to demonstrate how the tool can be used to closely exaConcept Map Examples
This website from Lucidchart provides a range of examples of Concept Maps and allows the user to create their own or use one of the templates provided.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.Handbook for participatory action research, planning and evaluation
This guide, written by Jacques M Chevalier and Daniel J Buckles for Participatory Action Research, provides a set of tools and processes that can be used to engage people in complexCommunity Screenings for Participatory Video
This guide, written by Gareth Benest for InsightShare, provides advice running community screenings as part of a participatory video process.A new tool in the toolbox: using mobile text for food security surveys in a conflict setting
This blog post from Jean-Martin Bauer, Koffi Akakpo, Marie Enlund and Silvia Passeri for Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) analyses the results of a household food security assessment conducted for thRevised Evaluation Policy of UNICEF
This document form UNICEF outlines a revised policy for conducting evaluations.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 DFIValue for Money: A Plan to Develop a Methodology to Audit Environmental Issues
This paper, written by Ximena Mura Alvarez, outlines a strategy to create a Value For Money (VFM) methodology for including environmental issues as part of a VFM audit.The Big Push Forward
This website provides a range of resources and discussion about approaches for assessing transformative development processes.Measuring 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.Contemporary Thinking about Causation in Education Evaluation: A Dialogue with Tom Cook and Michael Scriven
In this presentation, Tom Cook and Michael Scriven for The Evaluation Center, discuss the latest methodological developments in using randomised-control trials in educational and other settings.Monitoring and evaluating policy influence and advocacy
The report was commissioned to help Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation staff approach the evaluation of their policy-advocacy work. It details the evolution of M&E in advocacy and policy influence, discusses the theories and approachesWill 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 otherThe Data Visualisation Catalogue
This website, developed by Severino Ribecca, provides a comprehensive catalogue of data visualisation methods.Innovation in Operations Assessment Recent Developments in Measuring Results in Conflict Environments
This publication, edited by edited by Andrew Williams, James Bexfield, Fabrizio Fitzgerald Farina and Johannes de Nijs for NATO looks at innovation within in the area of capability development particularlyO sistema de monitoramento e avaliação dos programas de promoção e proteção social do Brasil
Apresentação do sistema brasileiro de monitoramento e avaliação de programas sociais , como parte da cooperação Brasil-Africa .Evaluation Café
This web page, by Karsten Weitzenegger, provides a comprehensive guide to using evaluation or world cafe as a method for stakeholders to evaluate a program in a workshop style session.Criteria for selection of high-performing indicators
This checklist, created by Goldie MacDonald for The Evaluation Center, provides a set of criteria that can be used for identifying and selecting indicators for evaluation in collaboration with stakeholders.Criterios de selección de los indicadores de alto rendimiento
La lista de verificación incluye criterios basados en la práctica que deben tenerse en cuenta en la selección de los indicadores que se usarán para el monitoreo y la evaluación.Critères de sélection d’indicateurs de haute performance
La liste de contrôle comprend des critères centrés sur la pratique, à prendre en considération dans le choix des indicateurs à utiliser dans le suivi et l’évaluation.Contribution analysis
This paper, written by Franca Eirich and Anita Morrison for the Scottish Government, provides detailed guidance on contribution analysis and its use in Scottish settings.Uganda evaluation standards
This set of standards was developed by the Uganda Evaluation Association (UEA) in order to guide evaluations that take place in Uganda to ensure a good standard of practice is demonstrated by evaluators during evaluations.Outcome harvesting
"Outcome Harvesting is a utilisation-focused, highly participatory tool that enables evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of outcomes they have influenced when relationships of cause-effect aCosecha de alcances
Cosecha de Alcances es una herramienta centrada en la utilización y altamente participativo que permite a evaluadores, donantes y gerentes de proyectos y programas identificar, formular, verificar y dar sentido a los alcances en que han infStandards for Evaluation in the UN System
This set of standards and norms, developed by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), are designed to increase the professionalisation of evaluation and provide guidance on the deveQuestionnaire design: asking questions with a purpose
This guide, written by Ellen Taylor-Powell for Cooperative Extension, provides detailed guidance and examples for designing and writing questionnaires.Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide
This book, written by Rachel Glennerster & Kudzai Takavarasha, provides step-by-step guidance on running randomised impact evaluations of social programmes.Strong evaluation designs for programs with unexpected consequences
This webinar, presented by Jonathan Morell to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), looks at creating evaluation designs for programs that have unexpected consequences.Realist synthesis: an introduction
This guide, written by Ray Pawson, Trisha Greenhalgh, Gill Harvey and Kieran Walshe for the ESRC Research Methods Programme, provides an introduction to using realist synthesis, with a focus on h