Archive for June, 2009
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Authors: Espen Villanger ; Alf Morten Jerve
Published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, Volume 1, Issue 2
June 2009 , pages 171 - 194
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Publication date: 12 May 2009 . Full report (PDF - 366KB)
Executive Summary
1. This brief review of the Department for International Development's (DFID) performance management arrangements during 2008 is a follow-up to our 2002 VFM report on the same topic. It responds to a request from DFID's Accounting Officer to re-visit ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Why, what and when to measure?
An opinion paper prepared for IIEP, by Alfredo Ortiz and Peter Taylor, INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (IDS), 25th July, 2008
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Abstract
Many capacity development (CD) programs and processes aim at long?term sustainable change,
which depends on seeing many smaller changes in at times almost invisible fields (rules, incentives,
behaviours, power, coordination etc.). Yet, most evaluation processes of CD tend to focus on short?
term outputs focused on clearly visible changes. This opinion paper will offer some ideas on how to
deal with this paradox, by examining how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) does, or could, make a difference to CD. It explores whether there is something different and unique about M&E of CD that
isn’t addressed by predominant methods and ways of thinking about M&E, and which might be
better addressed by experimenting with learning?based approaches to M&E of CD.
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION—WHAT SHOULD MONITORING &EVALUATION (M&E) TELL US ABOUT
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT (CD)? ................................. 1
2. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT MEANS AND ENDS—“WHAT ARE WE MEASURING AND WHEN
SHOULD WE MEASURE IT?” .... 5
2.1. IN SEARCH OF PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT .. 5
2.2. STANDING CAPACITY .... 10
3. WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM M & E OF CD DILEMMAS? ... 13
3.1. DEVELOPMENT BEING A PROCESS ALREADY IN MOTION ........ 13
3.2. LINEAR VERSUS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS (CAS) THINKING, PROGRAMMING AND MEASUREMENT ....... 14
3.3. ATTRIBUTION ... 17
3.4. DONOR ACCOUNTING FOCUS VERSUS OPEN ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Produced by the Value for Money Department, FCPD, February 2009.
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"The principal changes to the logframe from the earlier (2008) 4x4 matrix are:
• The Objectively Verifiable Indicator (OVI) box has been separated into its
component elements (Indicator, Baseline and Target), and Milestones added.
• Means of Verification has been separated into ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Date: 2-5.30pm 11th June 2009
Venue: NCVO offices, N1 9RL, London
For more information contact: Alex Jacobs <alex@keystoneaccountability.org>
Motion: this meeting believes that the logframe is the right tool for managing most NGO work
Logframes (Logical Framework Analysis) are very widely used in NGOs. But they split opinion sharply throughout the ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
EVALUATOR VIEWS OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE.
This paper was produced independently by Richard Blue, Cynthia Clapp-Wincek, and Holly Benner. MAY 2009
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"Findings derive from literature review, interviews with senior USG officials and primarily interviews with and survey responses from ‘external evaluators’—individuals who conduct ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
provided by Denis Jobin (IDEAS VP 2006-2009), in a posting on the MandE NEWS email list...
“Getting to Results: Evaluation Capacity Building and Development”
The IDEAS Global Assembly, Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 17-20, 2009.
The International Development Evaluation Association‘s Global Assembly focused on the issues involved in evaluation capacity building, and how ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
An Editorial in Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, Volume 5, Number 11, January 2009
In this short and readable paper Michael Scriven addresses "three categories of issues that arise about meta-evaluation: (i) exactly what is it; (ii) how is it justified; (iii) when and how should it be used? In the following, ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Date: October 5 - 16, 2009
Venue: Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
USAID's MEASURE Evaluation Project is pleased to announce the regional workshop on "Impact Evaluation of Population, Health and Nutrition Programs," for English speaking professionals. The workshop is sponsored by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Date: August 3-14, 2009
Venue: Pretoria, South Africa
USAID's MEASURE Evaluation Project is pleased to announce a training opportunity for the Anglophone Africa region. The School of Health Systems and Public Health at University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa is offering a regional workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs. ...
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