Archive for October, 2010

Indices, Benchmarks, and Indicators: Planning and Evaluating Human Rights Dialogues

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Anna Würth, Frauke Lisa Seidensticker, German Institute for Human Rights, 2005. Available as pdf "In September 2001, the Swiss Government accepted a postulate by the Commission for Foreign Policy of the Federal Parliament. The postulate asked the government to develop the instrument of human rights dialogues within the human rights foreign ...

Results, risk assessment and management in development cooperation – Towards a Common Approach

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Date: 25 - 26 November 2010 Venue: Nordatlantens Brygge, Strandgade 91, Copenhagen (From ODI website) "The conference is organised by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and co-hosted by The Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute and the OECD/DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF). Development cooperation is ...

Helpdesk Research Report: Participatory M&E and Beneficiary Feedback

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

from the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre Date: 03.09.2010 Available as a pdf Query: Please identify the existing literature on participatory monitoring and evaluation, with a particular emphasis on gaining wide-ranging beneficiary feedback. Comment on the coverage, scalability, risks, benefits and applicability. Enquirer: Aid Effectiveness Team, DFID Contents 1. Overview 2. General Literature on ...

Aid Transparency Assessment

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

(from Karin Christiansen,Publish What You Fund ) "I am proud to share with you Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Assessment that we have been working on over the last year. This is the first global assessment of the transparency of 30 major donors across seven indicators from eight ...

Seminar: Complexity-oriented Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): from alternative to mainstream?

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Date: Wednesday 10 November 2010, 13.30-17.00 pm, Venue: Theatre Concordia, Hoge Zand 42, The Hague, The Netherlands The HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, PSO Capacity Building in Developing Countries, the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB), and Vredeseilanden/VECO ...

AusAID-DFID-3ie call for Systematic Reviews

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) have just launched a joint call for proposals for systematic reviews to strengthen the international community’s capacity for evidence-based policy making. AusAID, DFID and 3ie ...

Conference: Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Date: December 16-18, 2010 Venue: University of Brighton, UK The University of Brighton will be hosting a groundbreaking, EU funded, international conference on the theme of Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values, bringing together the leading thinkers, practitioners and organizations in these fields.  The ...

When is the rigorous impact evaluation of development projects a luxury, and when is it a necessity?

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

by Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes, Centre for Global Development, 10/11/2010  Download (PDF, 733 KB) "The authors study one high-profile case: the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive package intervention to spark sustained local economic development in rural Africa. They illustrate the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation in ...

The Katine Challenge: How to analyse 540+ stories about a rural development project

Monday, October 11th, 2010

The Guardian & Barclays funded and AMREF implemented, Katine Community Partnerships Project in Soroti District, Uganda is exceptional in some respects and all too common in others. It is exceptional in the degree to which its progress has been very publicly monitored since it began in October 2007. Not only have ...

Do we need a Minimum Level of Failure (MLF)?

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

This is the title of a new posting on the Rick on the Road blog, the editorial arm of Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS. It argues that improving aid effectiveness by identifying and culling out the worst performers is a different and possibly more appropriate strategy than identifying and replicating the ...