Archive for January, 2011

Policy Practice Brief 6 – What Makes A Good Governance Indicator?

Monday, January 24th, 2011

January 2011, Gareth Williams http://www.thepolicypractice.com/papersdetails.asp?code=17 The rise to prominence of good governance as a key development concern has been marked by an increasing interest in measurement and the production of a huge range of governance indicators. When used carefully such indicators provide a valuable source of information on governance conditions and trends. ...

‘Realist evaluation – understanding how programs work in their context’; An expert seminar with Dr. Gill Westhorp; Wageningen, the Netherlands; 29-03-2011

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

FormDate: 29-03-2011 Venue: Wageningen, the Netherlands Dear colleague, With pleasure we would like to announce an expert seminar with Dr. Gill Westhorp on 29th March 2011: 'Realist evaluation - understanding how programs work in their context'. 'Realist evaluation (Pawson and Tilley, 1997) is one type of theory based evaluation.  It ...

2010 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

"The IFAD Office of Evaluation (IOE) has released its eighth Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI), based on evaluations carried out in 2009. The main objectives of the report are to highlight the results and impact of IFAD-funded operations, and to draw attention ...

Call for Abstracts – Forthcoming Sri Lankan Evaluation Association Conference June 6 -10, 2011

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Date: June 6 -10, 2011 Venue: Colombo, Sri Lanka Dear colleagues The Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA) will convene its fourth Evaluation conference in Colombo this coming June. The conference will start with two days of professional development workshops and will provide an opportunity for sharing knowledge and ideas ...

“The Truth Wears Off” & “More Thoughts on the Decline Effect”

Monday, January 17th, 2011

These two articles by Jonah Lehrer in the New Yorker (13/12/2010, 03/01/2011)  provide a salutary reminder of the limitations of experimental methods as a means of research, when undertaken by mere mortals, with their various limitations. They do not, in my reading, dismiss or invalidate the use of experimental methods, ...

The CES Learning and Innovation Prize is open for entries.

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Closing date 17 January 2011 Charities Evaluation Services is celebrating the ways in which charities use monitoring information or evaluation findings to improve their work and influence others with the new Learning and Innovation Prize. The Prize is aimed at highlighting the contribution that monitoring and evaluation makes ...

Impact Evaluation Conference: “Mind the Gap”: From Evidence to Impact

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Date: June 15-17 2011 Venue: Cuernavaca, Mexico Each year billions of dollars are spent on tackling global poverty. Development programs and policies are designed to build sustainable livelihoods and improve lives. But is there real evidence to show which programs work and why? Are government and donor policies ...