Archive for August, 2010

Measuring Up: HIV-related advocacy evaluation training pack (draft)

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

HIV-related advocacy evaluation training for civil society organisations. Produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Secretariat), International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), July 2010, 38 pages. Available as .pdf "This training pack is published by the Alliance and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and consists of two guides designed ...

Updated MSC bibliography

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

This page is intended to provide  an update of the bibliography in the 2005 Most Significant Change technique (MSC) Users Guide Please feel free to suggest additions to this list, through the Comment facility below, or by emailing the editor (Rick Davies) Papers Using Most Significant Change Stories to document the impact of ...

Designing Initiative Evaluation A Systems-oriented Framework for Evaluating Social Change Efforts

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2007. 48 pages. Available as pdf. "Purpose" "This document is designed for use by external evaluators who conduct initiative evaluations for theW.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) – and, hopefully, other foundations and government agencies. It presents a systems-oriented framework and four general designs for initiative and cluster evaluation. The ...

UK Evaluation Society 2010 Annual Evaluation Conference

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Evaluation in a turbulent world: Challenges, opportunities and innovation in evaluation practice Date: 22-23 November 2010 Venue: Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham Abstracts are now invited for this year's UKES Annual Evaluation Conference. The on-line submission form is available via the conference website www.profbriefings.co.uk/ukes2010 The closing date for receipt of submissions is 13 August ...

The American Evaluation Association annual conference: Evaluation Quality

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Date: November 10-13, 2010 Venue: San Antonio, Texas The American Evaluation Association invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 10, through Saturday, November 13, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. We'll be convening at the lovely Grand Hyatt San Antonio, right in ...

RESOURCE PACK ON SYSTEMATIZATION OF EXPERIENCES

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

ActionAid International, 2009, 104 pages.  Available as pdf 3.39Mb See also the associated AAI website on systematization "Systematization is a methodology that offers a way to do all of the above. It allows us to: Organise and document what we have learnt through our work Better understand the impact of our work and the ...

Critique of Governance Assessment Applications

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

GRDC Helpdesk Research Report by Sumedh Rao, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, July 2010. 16 pages. Available as pdf Query:  Identify the key literature that critiques the use and application of governance assessments.  Enquirer: DFID Contents 1. Overview 2. General critiques 3. Critiques of measurement 4. Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 5. African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) 6. ...

Narrative Research

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

David Snowden, 2010.  21 pages. Available as pdf, from the Cognitive Edge site "Narrative Research, ... lays the foundation for the use of narrative research and inquiry methods not only in the project but broadly in the field of research and consultancy.... Elements of it together with general material ...

Listen First: a pilot system for managing downward accountability in NGOs

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Alex Jacobs and Robyn Wilford. Development in Practice, Volume 20, Number 7, September 2010 Available as pdf "Abstract: This article reports on a research project intended to develop systematic ways of managing downward accountability in an international NGO. Innovative tools were developed and trialled in six countries. The tools comprised a ...

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Alnoor Ebrahim, V. Kasturi Rangan, Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School (2010) Working Paper 10-099 Available as pdf ABSTRACT "Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on ...