Archive for December, 2009
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
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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3ieNews 3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor people in low- and middle-income countries by providing, and summarizing, evidence of what works
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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