Archive for October, 2008

Participatory Impact Assessment: a Guide for Practitioners

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this experience, the guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in ...

Is Empowerment Efficient?: A Data Envelopment Analysis of 260 Local Associations in Bangladesh

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

"This report presents one of the first formal analyses, outside the microfinance area, of the efficiency (as different from the effectiveness) of a development NGO program. The author [Aldo Benini], who invites comments and suggestions, offers this summary: “Empowerment, a concept with a successful twenty-century cultural career, has been recognized for ...

GRDC Helpdesk Research Report: Monitoring and Evaluation of Participation in Governance

Monday, October 6th, 2008

M&E of Participation in Governance: Please identify toolkits, methodologies and indicators for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of programmes aimed at improving governance (particularly of urban infrastructure/services). Please highlight methods of relevance to NGOs for monitoring and evaluating poor people's participation in decision-making processes. Helpdesk response Key findings: There is generally very ...

Online Training: Introduction to Social Audit

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Date: Tuesday 28th October 2008 2.00pm to 4.00pm Venue: Online This two hour Social Audit introduction will include: Why Social Audit What type of organisation uses Social Audit What are the benefits of Social Audit The 4 stages of Social Audit Social Audit Governance Social Audit External View Social Audit Internal View Social Planning and Accounting Presenting the Social Audit This course ...

Michael Scriven teaches “An Introduction to Evaluation” online

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Date: Oct. 11-12 and Nov. 1-2, 2008 Venue: Claremont Graduate University, California Four Days of Evaluation Training with a Master in the Field: Michael Scriven teaches "An Introduction to Evaluation" Dr. Michael Scriven, one of the founders of Evaluation Science as a modern discipline, will be offering two 2-day courses on the foundations, ...

Upcoming training opportunities with Jess Dart of Clear Horizon

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Date: 13-17th October 2008 Venue: Melbourne, Australia Upcoming training opportunities with Jess Dart of Clear Horizon. Build a People-Centred Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting & Improvement (MERI) Framework AU$800 Two days: 13th & 14th October Course Description: Increasingly, project teams are involved in designing monitoring, evaluation, frameworks. Having a strong program logic element, this people-centred approach uses ...

Evaluation of Humanitarian Action with ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Date: 29-31 OCTOBER 2008 Venue: near Brussels This course is an introductory-to- intermediate level course and has the overall aim of making evaluations of humanitarian action more effective in contributing to the improved performance of interventions and to improve the quality of the evaluation process. The course is facilitated by Channel Research, ...

Training on Evaluation of Sustainability, by EASY-ECO Saarland

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Date: 20th to 24th October, 2008 Venue: Saarbrücken, Germany The next training opportunity within the EASY-ECO series of conferences and training courses will be held from 20th to ...

UKES Annual Conference 2008, October 2008

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Date: 23-24 October 2008 Venue: The Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel Changing Contexts for Evaluation and Professional Action UKES Annual Conference 2008 23-24 October 2008 The Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel Call for abstracts The UKES Annual Conference 2008 will be held on 23-24 October at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel, preceded on 22 October by a ...

The European Evaluation Society Conference, Lisbon 2008

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Date: 1-3 October 2008 Venue: Lisbon, Portugal 'Building for the future: Evaluation in governance, development and progress' Programme The conference will comprise keynote speakers, plenary and parallel sessions, networking opportunities and social events. The main programme will commence at 19.00 on Wednesday 1 October and close with a reception at 18.00 on Friday 3 October. The ...