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California county scorecard of children's well-being
This website from Children Now provides an interactive display of statistics reporting on the wellbeing of children in California.Case study
This website from EuropeAid provides a detailed overview of case studies including why, when and how they are used and how they are carried out.Children in Crisis: Good Practices in Evaluating Psychosocial Programming
This guide from Save the Children aims to support staff in psychosocial program design and evaluation for projects involving children.Collecting Evaluation Data: An Overview of Sources and Methods
This guide from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension provides an overview of a variety of sources and methods that can be used for collecting data in an evaluation.A Question of Worth: Cost Analysis in Evaluation
This presentation from World Health Organization analyses the different methods of cost analysis including cost-benefit analysis and cost effectiveness analysis.Developing a Well-Reasoned Response to a Moral Problem in Scientific Research
This article analyses a process for developing a reasoned response to moral or ethical problems.The African evaluation guidelines: 2002
This paper from the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) provides a brief description of the guidelines and a series of checklists to assist with the planning, implementation and completion of the evaluatiUNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation
These guidelines from the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) were designed to ensure ethical practice takes place in evaluations involving all UN agencies.AES Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Evaluations
These guidelines from the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) were designed to ensure ethical behaviour and decision making are incorporated into evaluation practice.Australasian Evaluation Society Code of Ethics
This code of ethics from the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) is aimed at promoting ethical evaluation practice, supporting its members and maintaining AES standards.Two-way accountability: improving ethical evaluation practice in indigenous contexts
This presentation from Emma Williams at The Northern Institute of Charles Darwin University analyses the lack ethical guidelines for evaluation in Indigenous contexts and argues theGEF Evaluation Office ethical guidelines
These guidelines from the Global Environment Facility were developed to ensure ethical considerations were adopted in the case of conflict of interest situations and that the rights of stakeholders wBeyond informed consent: how is it possible to ethically evaluate Indigenous programs?
This paper from the North Australia Research Unit (NARU) of the Australian National University (ANU) analyses the ethical considerations of evaluating indigenous proProfessionnal Ethics and Standards for the Evaluation Community in the Government of Canada
This paper from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat outlines the professional standards expected of the evaluation community in Canada's Public Service with a particular emphDFID Ethics Principles for Research and Evaluation
This paper from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) outlines the principals on ethical practice in research and evaluation that must be adhered to on all projects funded by the departUtilization-Focused Evaluation for Agricultural Innovation
Drawn from Michael Quinn Patton's book Utilization-focused evaluation, this paper introduces this approach to evaluatUtilisation-focused evaluation (U-FE) checklist
Composed by Michael Quinn Patton in 2002 and updated in 2013, this is a comprehensive checklist for undertaking a utilisation-focused evaluation.Utilization-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.NSW Government evaluation toolkit
This web-based toolkit has been developed to help program managers in New South Wales (Australia) government agencies manage evaluations (including those undertaken by internal or external evaluators, or by a combination of both).Partner
This free tool from Partner is designed to support the analysis and interpretation of data related to the collaboration of people and organisations.Essentials of Utilization-Focused evaluation: A Primer
Drawing on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this book provides an overall framework and essHow can research organizations more effectively transfer research knowledge to decision makers?
This article from the Milbank Quarterly outlines an organisational framework for knowledge transfer which is aimed at ensuring research on health care is disseminaCausality: Models, Reasoning and Inference
This book offers a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation.The art of focused conversation
This paper from the Yukon Public Service Commission provides an overview of the process of having focused conversations to support positive workplace exchanges.Purposeful program theory: Effective use of theories of change and logic models
This book, by Sue Funnell and Patricia Rogers, discusses ways of developing, representing and using programme theory and theories of change in different ways to suit the particular situation.Critical systems heuristics
This chapter provides a detailed introduction to critical systems heuristics and the use of its central tool boundary critique.Partnerships for Environmental Public Health: Evaluation Metrics Manual
This manual from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is aimed at providing program staff and grantees examples of tangible metrics that can be used in the planning, implemeCollaborative outcome reporting technique (CORT)
This resource is a concise overview of the method developed by Dr Jess Dart, known as the Collaborative Outcome Reporting Technique (CORT). This method is characterized by two elements. They are:Addressing Attribution through Contribution Analysis: Using Performance Measures Sensibly
This article from the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation outlines the key steps involved with using contribution analysis as a tool to discover the contribution a program has made to particular outcomes.Template: Recording assessment using multiple lines and levels of evidence (mlle) criteria
This template can be used when doing a Multiple Lines and Levels of Evidence analysis, to record all the lines of evidence available for each evaluation question.Causal criteria methods manual
This manual details the 8-step causal criteria framework, a method that can be used to integrate information from different data sources.African Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
This publication is an analysis of six monitoring and evaluation (M&E) case studies from Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda.