Archive for the ‘Topic lists and items (M&E and...)’ Category

A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition Assessment, Education and Counseling of People Living With HIV

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project is pleased to announce the release of A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition Assessment, Education and Counseling of People Living With HIV. The guide provides guidance and tools to support programs in monitoring and evaluating ...

Impact assessment: Drivers, dilemmas and deliberations

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Prepared for Sightsavers International by Jennifer Chapman & Antonella Mancini jenny.chapman@tiscali.co.uk antonella.mancini@blueyonder.co.uk 9 pages 10th April 2008 "This paper investigates key debates and issues around impact assessment and performance measurement for UK development NGOs. It was originally written for Sightsavers to stimulate debate and thinking among staff, Board and senior management team. ...

Training on Evaluation of Sustainability, by EASY-ECO Saarland

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Date: 20th to 24th October, 2008 Venue: Saarbrücken, Germany The next training opportunity within the EASY-ECO series of conferences and training courses will be held from 20th to ...

The material and political bases of lived poverty in Africa: insights from the Afrobarometer

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The lived poverty index: strongly related to measurement of political freedoms Authors: M. Bratton (ed) Publisher: Afrobarometer, 2008 Full text of document (Via Eldis Development Reporter) Abstract: The Afrobarometer has developed an experiential measure of lived poverty called the Lived Poverty Index (LPI). It measures how frequently people go without basic necessities during the ...

Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(via Xceval email list) We are pleased to inform you that the Arabic version of the DAC Evaluation Network’s “Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management,” has been released. The glossary is now available in thirteen languages! The multilingual glossary serves to promote shared understandings and facilitate ...

Event: Navigating Complexity – An innovation dialogue

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Date: May 26-27, 2008 Venue: Wageningen International, Netherlands. [Ten presentations given at this event are now available online] What does complexity thinking mean for development interventions? This innovation dialogue offers a unique opportunity for exploring how emerging insights from the complexity sciences and systems thinking, combined with field practice, could reshape ...

Two MSC workshops: for first time and experienced users

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Date: 24-28 November 2008 Venue: New Delhi - India Dear Friends and Colleagues, We would like to inform you of the following forthcoming, PRAXIS-promoted training workshops: Innovations in the use of the “Most Significant Change” (MSC) Technique. REVIEW WORKSHOP: For Experienced Users. 24-25 November 2008, New Delhi - India. More info The “Most Significant Change” ...

Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Date: 2-4 September 2008 Venue: Accra, Ghana, In September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organizations, and civil society organizations from around the world will gather in Accra for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (2-4 September). Their common objective is to ...

Poverty and environment indicators

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Produced by: Capability and Sustainability Centre, University of Cambridge (2008) The aim of this report is to explain technical aspects in using and developing Poverty & Environment indicators (P&E) by providing a toolbox that will enable the readers to use indicators to mainstream environment into poverty reduction strategies. The document targets ...

National Audit Office: Good Governance Review on DFID’s Monitoring and Evaluation Arrangements

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The following information has been sent out by email ---------------------------- "The role and remit of the NAO The NAO is tasked with examining the economy, effectiveness and efficiency with which government departments have used public money. Our review will examine DFID's monitoring and evaluation framework and whether it influences decision making and operational activities. In this ...