Archive for the ‘New books’ Category
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Beth Osborne Daponte
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8439-7. Paperback.192 pages. July 2008, Jossey-Bass
Also available via Amazon
"The book introduces students and practitioners to all necessary concepts and tools used to evaluate programs and policies. It focuses on issues that arise when evaluating programs, using those offered by non-profit and governmental organizations serving different sectors (social ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(From ELDIS Poverty Reporter)
Authors: Gunewardena,D.
Produced by: Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka (2005)
Recently, conceptual advances in poverty measurement have been made:
acceptance of the multidimensionality of poverty
parallel use of monetary, capability, social exclusion and participatory approaches
better measurement of the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability
a rudimentary but growing agenda for the measurement ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
...has just been published by the Campaigning Effectiveness Programme at NCVO
The book, written by Jim Coe and Ruth Mayne, seeks to advance the case that simple and effective monitoring and evaluation can, if implemented well, become a powerful tool for social and political change. It is aimed at campaigners and ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Date: 6-10 October
Venue: College of Europe, Bruges Campus, Belgium
Dear Colleague,
The College of Europe and Jacobs and Associates Europe invite you to participate in our 5-Day Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) Training Course on the principles, procedures, and methods of RIA. This practical, hands-on, course ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
The objectives and the process
This page is intended as a public record of the development of Most Significant Change (MSC) training materials.
The aim is that interested people should be able to contact those listed below (via email to Rick Davies, or use the Comment box below) to get copies of ...
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Bob Williams and Iraj Imam (eds.)
EdgePress/American Evaluation Association (2007)
Systems Concepts in Evaluation: An Expert Anthology brings
together a wide range of systems concepts, methodologies and
methods and applies them to evaluation settings. This book
addresses the questions:
• What is a systems approach?
• What makes it different from other approaches?
• Why ...
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
(via Pelican email list)
Dear all
Niels has asked me to make you aware of a new publication that some
'Pelican-ers' might find relevant.
I have edited a book on how learning and monitoring can become better
'friends' than is currently usually the case. The book comes off the press
tomorrow. The full reference: Guijt, ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
(via the AIDS Alliance India website)
"A report based on an evaluation of a programme on “Community Driven Approaches to Address the Feminisation of HIV/AIDS in India” by means of the ‘Most Significant Change’ Technique: Using the participatory evaluation technique, Most Significant Change (MSC), this report derives its findings from the ...
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