Archive for March, 2010

Addressing accountability in NGO advocacy: Practice, principles and prospects of self-regulation

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Michael Hammer, Charlotte Rooney, and Shana Warren ISSN 2043-7943 Briefing paper number 125, March 2010. One World Trust. "Global and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are the most distinct organisational form of civil society, and as such have become increasingly involved and influential in forming public opinion and policy through targeted and professional ...

The Implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Where do We Stand and How to Move Forward?

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Date: 15th -16th April 2010 Venue: Martin's Central Park Hotel, Boulevard Charlemagne 80, Brussels: The Paris Declaration (PD), adopted in 2005, lays down principles and procedures for enhancing the effectiveness of aid and specifies them in twelve targets supplied with monitorable indicators and to be achieved by 2010. ...

Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

by Todd Honeycutt, Issue Brief, November 2009, Number 1,  Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 4 pages Abstract: "Social network analysis (SNA) is a methodological approach to measuring and mapping relationships. It can be used to study whole networks, all of the ties within a defined group, or connections that ...

NETWORKING: CURRENT MODALITIES AND FUTURE SCENARIOS

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Final Report, October 2007, Hanne Lund Madsen, h.lund.madsen@email.dk For The Danish Child & Youth NGO Network, The Danish NGO Education Network, Thematic Forum, Gendernet, Aidsnet The overall aim of this study is to: Provide a solid basis for discussion of the future perspectives for NGO Networks including a synthesis and analysis of experiences ...

International Development Evaluation: Foundations and Practices

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Date: 5 – 9 July 2010 (5 full days) Venue: King's College London Course Director: Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor, King’s College London International development evaluation is increasingly called upon to support evidence based policy making in the management of development programmes. Growing public pressure to secure better results ...

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON METHODOLOGY IN PROGRAMME EVALUATION

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

7th to 9th April, 2010Date: Venue: Internet Overall Conference Theme International Trends in Programme Evaluation Methodology. Conference Aims The School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) aims to bring together contributions from programme evaluation theorists and practitioners working in both developed and developing country contexts. The ...

Analyzing the Effects of Policy Reforms on the Poor: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of World Bank Support to Poverty and Social Impact Analyses

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

World Bank, 2010 "The World Bank introduced the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) approach in fiscal 2002 to help governments and the Bank anticipate and address the possible consequences of proposed policy reforms, especially on the poor and vulnerable, and ...

UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Evaluation Office, UNICEF NYHQ , September 2004 >The UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards< have been created as a transparent tool for quality assessment of evaluation reports.  This document outlines what the Standards are, the rationale for each standard and how they are applied.  The Standards are used by UNICEF Evaluation Office to ...

Fit for the Future Conference: Measuring Impact, Communicating Results

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Fit for the Future Conference: Measuring Impact, Communicating Results, Date: 28 April 2010 Venue: London. Find out more and book here: http://www.charitycomms.org.uk/measuring_impact It’s not enough for charity communicators to simply tell the world about the great work their organisation does. Today charities are expected to demonstrate their impact. Knowing how well your charity ...

Publications on accountability of technological innovation

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

New publications by the One World Trust: "An Accountability Framework for Technological Innovation", ILAC Initiative (Institutional Learning and Change) Brief In this Brief, we offer recommendations to help an organization conducting technological research and design (R&D) to become more accountable. ...