Archive for March, 2012

Analytic Rigour in Information Analysis – Lessons from the intelligence community?

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

This post was prompted by a blog posting by Irene Guijt about a presentation by Michael Patton at a workshop in Wageningen last week (which I also attended). The quotes below come from a webpage about Zelik, Patterson and Woods' Rigour Attribute Model , which outlines eight attributes of a ...

THEORY OF CHANGE REVIEW – A report commissioned by Comic Relief

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Cathy James, September 2011. 33 pages. Available as pdf. The review approach Comic Relief’s international grants team commissioned this review to capture staff and partners’ experiences in using theory of change; to identify others in development that are using theory of change and analyse their different approaches; and to draw together ...

Peacebuilding with impact: Defining Theories of Change

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Care International UK, January 2012. 12 pages. Available as pdf Executive Summary: "Focusing on theories of change can improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. A review of 19 peacebuilding projects in three confict-affected countries found that the process of articulating and reviewing theories of change adds rigour and transparency, clarifes project ...

Conference: Measuring Impact of Higher Education for Development

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

From: Monday 19th March 2012 to Tuesday 20th March 2012 Venue:  Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London Organisers: London International Development Centre (LIDC); Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Background: Higher education for international development has been, in recent years, a neglected area relative to other educational interventions. Yet higher education (HE) is necessary for ...

UKES CONFERENCE 2012 Evaluation for results: What counts? Who stands to gain? How is it done?

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

16 March 2012 The Macdonald Hotel, Birmingham [from UKES website] UKES conferences address leading issues of the day in programme and policy evaluation. The 2012 Annual Conference will address the current drive towards evaluation focused on results – frequently linked to 'Payment by Results' and what, in international development and elsewhere, is ...