Archive for September, 2009

3ie will award up to $10 million in research grants to improve development effectiveness

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Open Window Round 2 - Deadline: 27 November 2009 To enhance development effectiveness and ultimately improve people’s lives in developing countries, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) has launched a request for proposals (RFP) for quality impact evaluations. This RFP is the second round under 3ie’s Open Window, which accepts ...

Community Radio Performance Assessment System.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

[Via ELDIS blog] The Nepali Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) has launched a new manual entitled Community Radio Performance Assessment System. UNESCO is calling it the "most comprehensive set of indicators concerning community media is the result of a decade-long work of CRSC in promoting, enabling and facilitating the community ...

BOND Quality Group meeting: Managing partnerships

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Date: 8 October, Time: 13.30 to 17.00 Venue: VSO International, Carlton House, 27A Carlton Drive, Putney SW15 2BS, London, UK Topic: Managing Partnerships: what does it mean for quality and effectiveness? Many INGOs operate in partnership with national and local NGOs. The tools we use to manage these relationships have ...

New Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results

Friday, September 18th, 2009

We are pleased to inform you that the new Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results was launched by the Administrator on September 15th, 2009. The Evaluation Office, the Operations Support Group, and the Capacity Development Group of the Bureau for Development Policy collaborated in revising the publication. ...

Evaluation in the UK third sector: current issues, future challenges

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Workshop Date: Thursday 8th October 2009 Time: 12.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Toynbee Hall, Aldgate, London Twenty years ago, evaluation in the third sector was limited. There was very little support for third sector organisations wishing to evaluate their work, and self-evaluation was treated with suspicion by many. The situation ...

Six courses on program evaluation topics

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Date: October 19 - 24, 2009 Venue: Ottawa, Canada Registration Deadline - October 1 Classes are filling up -- so call us to hold space for you TEI and CES Collaborative Program This October, 2009, the Canadian Evaluation Society, National Capital Chapter (CES-NCC) and The Evaluators' Institute (TEI) will continue their collaboration to bring ...

trainings in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Date: 9-11 November 2009 Venue: Brussels 9-11 November 2009 (introductory- to intermediate level) & 12-13 November 2009 (advanced level) Evaluation of Humanitarian Action with ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action) 9-11 November 2009 This course is an introductory-to- intermediate level course and has the overall aim of making evaluations of ...

5-day Outcome Mapping Training and Workshop in Switzerland

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Date:  26 – 30 October 2009 Venue:  Filzbach GL near Zurich, Switzerland Agridea International is organising a training and workshop on Outcome Mapping in English language in Europe. Interested people working in development cooperation in southern and eastern countries as well as staff working in development and donor agencies in the North ...

“Text Analysis under Time Pressure. Tools for humanitarian and development workers”

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

By Aldo Benini "The purpose of this paper is to add simple productivity tools for text analysis, by publicizing existing ones and by adding one that I created. “Simple” is a relative term. As the diagram in the Summary ...

Online workshop: Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Date: 1st October and 1st of the month thereafter Venue: Online at http://pcmitraining.com/course/category.php?id=2 Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation is a four week interactive e-learning workshop for individuals who are new to the field of monitoring and evaluation or those who wish to formalise their existing understanding which has been developed through work ...