Archive for September, 2011

On evaluation quality standards: A List

Monday, September 26th, 2011

  The beginnings of a list. Please suggest others by using the Comment facility below Normative statements: DFID Evaluation Quality Assurance templates for Entry level and Exit level. Entry level refers to TORs or evaluation plans, Exit level refers to draft evaluation reports. Circa 2011. USAID Evaluation Policy, January 2011. See Section 4 on ...

Workshop: Case Studies in Development Evaluation: Validity, Generalisation and Learning

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Venue: University of Copenhagen Date: May 21-23, 2012 Invitation and Call for Papers to International Workshop Centre for Social Science Development Research The Evaluation Department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Centre for Social Science Development Research at Institute of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen are pleased ...

Asian Development Bank: 2011 Annual Evaluation Review

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Available at ADB website Background This report summarizes the key findings and lessons of evaluation studies carried out in 2010, and provides trends in the success rates of ADB operations. It also reviews the recommendations from evaluation reports and the status of actions taken by ADB Management in response to these recommendations. ...

Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Michael Quinn Patton, August 2011. Sage publications Publisher's description: "Based on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, ...

Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation ‘as if Politics Mattered’,

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Date: 17-18 October 2011 Venue: ANU, Canberra, Australia Concept Note, Chris Roche & Linda Kelly, 4 August 2011 The Developmental Leadership Program (DLP)[1] addresses an important gap in international thinking and policy about the critical role played by leaders, elites and coalitions in the politics of development. At the core of DLP thinking ...

Impact Evaluation for Development: Principles for Action

Monday, September 19th, 2011

IE4D Group, January 2011. Available as pdf "The authors of this paper come from a variety of perspectives. As scholars, practitioners, and commissioners of evaluation in development, research and philanthropy, our thematic interests, disciplines, geographic locale, and experiences may differ but we share a fundamental belief that evaluative knowledge has the ...

Commons Select Committee to Scrutinise the DFID’s Annual Report & Resource Accounts

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

13 September 2011 "The International Development Committee is to conduct an inquiry into the Department for International Development’s Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11 and the Department’s Business Plan 2011-15. Invitation to submit Written Evidence The Committee will be considering Changes since the election to DFID's, role, policies, priorities and procedures; The implications of changes for ...

The Oslo Governance Forum – Governance Assessments for Social Accountability

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

  Date: 3-5 October 2011 Venue: Oslo, Norway  ABOUT THE OSLO GOVERNANCE FORUM The Oslo Governance Forum (OGF) is an initiative of the Oslo Governance Centre and the Democratic Governance Group of UNDP. The Forum will facilitate exchange of innovative experiences, knowledge and policy options among international development practitioners, academic institutions, government representatives and ...

Evaluation of Governance – A Study of the Government of India’s Outcome Budget

Monday, September 12th, 2011

by Anand P. Gupta,  Economic Management Institute, New Delhi, India in Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2:4, 566-573, December 2010. [Found courtesy of Public Financial Management Blog] "In 2005, the Government of India launched an apparently excellent initiative – the Outcome Budget – with the objective of changing the culture of measuring performance in ...

Measuring Impact on the Immeasurable? Methodological Challenges in Evaluating Democracy and Governance Aid

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

by Jennifer Gauck, University of Kent, Canterbury - Department of Politics, 2011. APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper. Available as pdf Abstract: "Recent debates over the quality, quantity and purpose of development aid has led to a renewed emphasis on whether, and in what circumstances, aid is effective in achieving development outcomes. A ...