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A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development programmes with social development objectives. Managed by Rick Davies, since 1997
Tweet If you click through and buy any of these books MandE NEWS earns a small commission on the sale. If you want to recommend other M&E books to be added to this list, use the Comment field below. If you want to search for other M&E related books on Amazon, use the search facility … Continue reading “Amazon books on monitoring and evaluation”
Tweet The purpose of this page To provide information on existing checklists of this kind. To collate and prompt ideas on how improved versions of a Evaluation Questions Checklist could be developed Rationale: The selection of evaluation questions is central to the design of an evaluation. If these choices are not the best possible, the … Continue reading “Evaluation Questions Checklists”
Tweet Edited by Stephen Bell and Peter Aggleton. Routledge 2016. View on Google Books “interpretive researchers thus attempt to understand phenomena through accessing the meanings participants assign to them” “…interpretive and ethnographic approaches are side-lined in much contemporary evaluation work and current monitoring and evaluation practice remains heavily influenced by more positivist approaches” “attribution is … Continue reading “Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social Development: Interpretive and Social Development Perspectives”
Tweet Pawson, Ray. 2013. The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto. UK: Sage Publications. http://www.uk.sagepub.com Chapter 1 is available as a pdf. Hopefully other chapters will also become available this way, because this 240 page book is expensive. Contents Preface: The Armchair Methodologist and the Jobbing Researcher PART ONE: PRECURSORS AND PRINCIPLES Precursors: From the … Continue reading “The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto”
Tweet by Sue C. Funnell, Patricia J. Rogers. March 2011. Available on Amazon. Product Description “Program Theory in Evaluation Practice is a ground–breaking reference that teaches how to develop an explicit causal model that links an intervention (project, program or policy) with its intended or observed impacts and using this to guide monitoring and evaluation. … Continue reading “Purposeful Program Theory: Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models”
Tweet Date: 5 – 9 July 2010 (5 full days) Venue: King’s College London Course Director: Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor, King’s College London International development evaluation is increasingly called upon to support evidence based policy making in the management of development programmes. Growing public pressure to secure better results from poverty reduction initiatives have generated … Continue reading “International Development Evaluation: Foundations and Practices”
Tweet From: Juha Uitto , via the MandE NEWS email list Folks, I’d like to draw your attention to a new book, ‘Evaluating Climate Change and Development‘, edited by Rob van den Berg and Osvaldo Feinstein. This to my knowledge is the first volume that systematically addresses issues relating to climate change from an evaluation point … Continue reading “Evaluating Climate Change and Development”
Tweet A three-day workshop jointly organised by Maastricht University and the University of Antwerp. Date: April 28-30, 2010 Venue: Institute of Development Policy and Management, Lange Sint Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium Focus In the past few years development organizations in both North and South have focused on improving evaluations of development interventions. As a … Continue reading “Workshop: Understanding the effects of development interventions: Theory-based impact evaluation in practice.”
Tweet Book by J. De Coninck, K. Chaturvedi, B. Haagsma, H. Griffioen, M. van der Glas Paperback: 220 pages Publisher: SAGE India (31 May 2008) Language English ISBN-10: 8178298570 ISBN-13: 978-8178298573. Also available on Amazon Effective planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) is essential for organisational survival and for sustainable development, but remains a challenge for … Continue reading “Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Organisations: Sharing training and facilitation experiences”
Tweet … Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World by Ben Ramalingam, Oxford University Press, 2013. Viewable in part via Google Books (and fully searchable with key words) Publishers summary: A ground breaking book on the state of the aid business, bridging policy, practice and science. Gets inside the black box of aid to highlight … Continue reading “Aid on the Edge of Chaos…”