Archive for December, 2009

Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2009: Presentations available

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

The presentations from this year's ME conference in Melbourne are available on the World Vision Australia website: http://www.worldvision.com.au/Learn/Conferences/MeasuringEffectiveness/2009_Presentations.aspx

Twitter feeds on M&E: A List

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

If you know of others, please leave a comment below @aeaweb/evaluation Contributors with significant focus on evaluation 3ieNews 3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor people in low- and middle-income countries by providing, and summarizing, evidence of what works

Perspectives on partnership: A literature review

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

By Douglas Horton, Consultant, Gordon Prain, International Potato Center, Graham Thiele, International Potato Center, November 2009. 101 pages Hard copy available via the IPC website Download pdf here Abstract This paper reports on a wide-ranging review of the literature on partnerships and other closely related forms of collaboration. It aims to contribute to knowledge of ...

Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

(from New York Times, found by Aldo Benini) By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS Published: NYT, November 20, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — The Trixie Telemetry company believes in hard, quantifiable truths. It believes that there is a right time and wrong time to breast-feed a baby. It believes that certain hours and rooms are better for ...

Evaluation in Conflict Prone Settings: Londonderry, June 2010

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Date: 7th - 11th June 2010 Venue: Londonderry, Northern Ireland As part of its 11th International Summer School, INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) will be running a course on Evaluation in Conflict Prone Settings. The course covers the basics of conducting evaluations of initiatives in conflict-prone settings. The focus of ...

ActionAid reports on “systematization”

Friday, December 18th, 2009

From the ActionAid website "Systematization is the reconstruction of and analytical reflection about an experience. Through systematization, events are interpreted in order to understand them… The systematization allows for the experience to be discussed and compared with other similar experiences, and with existing theories and, thus, contributes to an accumulation of ...

New INTRAC publications on M&E

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Tracking Progress in Advocacy - Why and How to Monitor and Evaluate Advocacy Projects and Programmes looks at the scope of, and rational for, engaging in advocacy work as part of development interventions, then focuses on the monitoring and evaluating of these efforts - offering reasons why and when these ...

Pathfinder : A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

(email from Pathfinder) Hi Rick. We recently published a new resource for the advocacy evaluation field.  Our new guide, Pathfinder : A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation, comes in three editions-one each for advocates, evaluators, and funders. All three editions, plus a bibliography of useful resources, are free to download ...

How wide are the ripples? The management and use of information generated from participatory processes in international non-governmental development organisations.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

In early 2009 five international development NGOs participated in reflection and discussion as part of a research project called ‘How wide are the ripples?’. The aim was to explore the flow and influence of knowledge produced in grassroots participatory processes within the international NGOs which commissioned or initiated process.  This ...

Card sorting methods: A List

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Card sorting is a simple and useful means of eliciting and aggregating qualitative data, in a participatory manner. Card sorting is also known as pile sorting, in the field of Cognitive Anthropology. This post will try to accumulate a list of  documents on this subject. How to Sort, by Harloff and ...