Archive for May, 2009

a one day event designed to explore impact assessment …

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Date: Thursday 2nd July 2009 Venue: London EGO – Empowering Grassroots Organisations would like to invite you to...a one day event designed to explore impact assessment with leading speakers from the Third Sector On Thursday 2nd July 2009 in London, empACT will take on three key areas; we will: · explore the outcomes ...

Claremont Graduate University’s Evaluation Workshops Go On-Line

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Date: August 21-2, 2009 Venue: Claremont Graduate University, Southern California Professional Development Workshop Series Claremont Graduate University is proud to offer our annual line-up of acclaimed workshops for professionals, academics, and students who seek to hone their research and evaluation skills.  Presenters from across North America will gather in beautiful Claremont, California, to teach participants from academia, research institutes and ...

Social Network Analysis And the Evaluation of Leadership Networks

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Bruce Hoppe, Ph.D. Connective Associates LLC bruce@connectiveassociates.com Claire Reinelt, Ph.D. Leadership Learning Community claire@leadershiplearning.org January 19, 2009 Abstract Leadership development practitioners have become increasingly interested in networks as a way to strengthen relationships among leaders in fields, communities, and organizations. This paper offers a framework for conceptualizing different types of leadership networks and uses case ...

Vancouver Outcome Mapping Training Workshop – September 21-24

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Date: September 21-24 Venue: Vancouver Outcome Mapping is a practical, flexible and participatory approach to planning, monitoring and evaluation. First introduced by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in 2000, Outcome Mapping (OM) has been used in projects, programs and organizations around the world. A growing body of donor agencies, NGOs and ...

Stakeholder analysis and social network analysis in natural resource management

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Christina Prell, Klaus Hubacekb, Mark Reed, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and  Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, 2009 Full text here Introduction Many conservation initiatives fail because they pay inadequate attention to the interests and characteristics of stakeholders. (Grimble and Wellard, 1997). As a consequence, ...

Survey of Donor Approaches to Governance Assessment

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Published by the  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC), Size: 34 pages (358 KB) Full Text here Executive Summary Bilateral and multilateral development agencies have engaged intensively in assessing governance over the last decade. To explore opportunities for increased harmonization and alignment in this ...

Training in Most Significant Change Technique (MSC) in Oxford, UK

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Date: 28-29th July 2009 Venue: Oxford, UK MSC is a powerful tool for monitoring, evaluation and organisational learning. MSC goes beyond merely capturing and documenting participants’ stories of impact, to offering a means of engaging in effective dialogue about what you are achieving. Each story represents the storyteller’s interpretation of impact, which ...

International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Date: June 8 – July 3 Venue: Carleton University in Ottawa Canada On-line applications are now being accepted for IPDET 2009 (June 8 – July 3) at www.ipdet.org. It is time to apply for one to four weeks at the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET). Now entering its 9th year, the ...

3ie news: Working paper series launched

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

The first two 3ie working papers are now available: Working Paper No. 1, Reflections on some current debates in impact evaluation, ...

Live webcast event on Real World Evaluation with Jim Rugh and Michael Bamberger

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Date: Tuesday, May 12th Venue: Internet UNICEF CEE/CIS, WHO/PAHO and DevInfo, in partnership with IDEAS (International Development Evaluation Association) and IOCE (International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation), are pleased to announce the Live webcast ...