Archive for July, 2012

UK centre of excellence for evaluation of international development

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

Prior Information Notice DFID is planning to establish a Centre of Excellence to assist with our commitment to use high quality evaluation to maximise the impact UK funded international development. DFID would like to consult with a wide range of research networks and experts in the field, and invite ideas and ...

DFID How To Note: Reviewing and Scoring Projects Introduction

Monday, July 16th, 2012

November 2011. Available as pdf. " Introduction This guidance is to help DFID staff, project partners and other stakeholders use the scoring system and complete the latest templates when undertaking an Annual Review (AR) or Project Completion Review (PCR - but formerly known as Project Completion Report)) for projects due for ...

Models of Causality and Causal Inference

Sunday, July 15th, 2012

by BarbaraBefani. An annex to BROADENING THE RANGE OF DESIGNS AND METHODS FOR IMPACT EVALUATIONS. Report of a study commissioned by the Department for International Development, APRIL 2012 ,  by Elliot Stern (Team Leader), Nicoletta Stame, John Mayne, Kim Forss, Rick Davies, Barbara Befani Introduction The notion of causality has given rise ...

DFID’s Approach to Impact Evaluation – Part I

Monday, July 9th, 2012

[from Development Impact: News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation.  Click here https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/node/838 to view full story. As part of a new series looking how institutions are approaching impact evaluation, DI virtually sat down with Nick York, Head of Evaluation and Gail Marzetti, Deputy Head, Research ...

AusAID: Establishment of Independent Evaluation Committee

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

[from AusAID website, 11 May 2012] Foreign Minister Bob Carr has announced the establishment of an Independent Evaluation Committee (IEC) to strengthen the independence and credibility of the work of the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE). Chaired by Jim Adams—a former Vice President of the World Bank—the Committee will oversee ODE in ...

Evaluating the impact of aid to Africa: lessons from the Millennium Villages

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

3 July 2012 17:00-18:30 (GMT+01 (BST)) - Public event, Overseas Development Institute and screened live online Register to attend "At the turn of the century, Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, in partnership with the United Nations, established integrated rural development projects, known as Millennium Villages in ten African countries. When they came ...