Archive for December, 2008

Complexity in Aid Workshop series: Strategy in a complex world

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Date: January 14, 2009, all day (9-5) Venue: CAFOD offices in London (Stockwell). The world is becoming increasingly inter-related, complex and fast-changing and yet many organisations continue to use traditional methods for strategy development, organisation change and leadership - even when they have questionable success. Why is this? What has to happen ...

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Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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New DFID policy on Evaluation

Monday, December 8th, 2008

"DFID takes very seriously the responsibility to ensure high quality, independent evaluation of its programmes, to provide reliable and robust evidence to improve the value of its global work to reduce poverty. In December 2007 the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact was established to help DFID strengthen its evaluation processes. ...

TrainEval – Training for Evaluation in Development, 3rd course in March-July 2009

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Date: 10th March, 2008 Venue: Brussels, Belgium TrainEval is an advanced training programme for evaluation in development, which has been further adapted to the specific requirements of the European development cooperation and the EC evaluation approach. It has successfully been implemented for the first time since February 2008. The programme has been developed ...

One World Trust on Accountability of Research Organisations

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

"The Accountability Principles of Research Organisations (APRO) report provides a framework for establishing accountability good practices and principles for policy-oriented research organisations working in developing countries. It discusses how One World Trust's core principles of accountability - participation, transparency, evaluation and complaints handling - can be applied to research. In ...

Consultation Draft: “Better information: better aid” Accra, August 2008 

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Produced by aidinfo. aidinfo is an initiative to contribute to faster poverty reduction by making aid more transparent. This is a draft for consultation that summarises the evidence we have gathered so far. We welcome suggestions, additions, comments and corrections.

Ipact at the University of Aberdeen: Course on monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs (in Tanzania)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Date: 17th August to 2nd September, 2009 Venue: Arusha, Tanzania MS-Training Centre for Development Cooperation in collaboration with Ipact is organising a course in Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programmes 17th August to 2nd September, 2009 - Tanzania For any further information contact Dr Kasilma Yosh Email: kasilimay@mstcdc.or.tz Modalities: The registration ...

Ipact at the University of Aberdeen: Course on monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs (in Burkina Faso)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Date: 2nd -18th February 2009 Venue: GREFSaD et INSSA (Université polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso ), Burkina Faso GREFSaD et INSSA (Université polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso in collaboration with Ipact is organising a course in Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programmes 2 - 18 February 2009 In French (GREFSaD et INSSA (Université polytechnique ...

Evaluating international advocacy networks

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Two papers by Ricardo Wilson-Grau Evaluating the Effects of International Advocacy Networks, Ricardo Wilson-Grau and Martha Nu. "This "think piece" will first sketch the special challenges of evaluating the effects of the advocacy work of international social change networks. I will then present the approach to evaluating advocacy that I use. ...

Clear Horizon: Training events in Melbourne

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Date: April 2009 Venue: Melbourne, Australia Participatory Evaluation 2-Apr-2009 A common complaint in monitoring and evaluation... How to design an evaluation study? 3-Apr-2009 There is a natural tendency when planning ...