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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Burt Perrin, Impact Evaluation Notes No. 2. April 2012 Rockefeller Foundation and Interaction. Available as pdf
Summary
This is the second guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This second guidance note, Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation, illustrates ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
On February 23rd, the Stanford Social Innovation Review asked its readers to predict the results of two randomised control trials (RCTs), before they become publicly available. Both studies "tested whether consulting services can help enterprises grow. In other words, with nothing more than advice, can small firms or microenterprises increase ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
February 21, 2012 blog posting by Johannes Linn, at Brookings
Found via @WorldBank_IEG tweet
"The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recently published a self-evaluation of its activities. Besides representing current thinking among evaluation experts at the World Bank, it also more broadly reflects some of the strengths and gaps in the ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
by Bertha Briceño, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank; Laura Cuesta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Orazio Attanasio, University College London
December 2011, 3ie Working Paper 14, available as pdf
"Abstract: As more resources are being allocated to impact evaluation of development programs,the need to map out the utilization and influence of evaluations has ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Mid-term results of a collective action research process.
Authors: Jan Van Ongevalle, Anneke Maarse, Cristien Temmink, Eugenia Boutylkova and Huib Huyse. Published January 2012
Praxis Paper 26, available as pdf
(Text from INTRAC website) "Written by staff from PSO and HIVA, this paper shares the first results of an ongoing collaborative action research ...
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
Blog posting by Hannah George on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 18:01 Found via @TimShorten
"The World Bank has taken landmark steps to make information accessible to the public and globally promote transparency and accountability, according to the first annual report on the World Bank’s Access to Information (AI) Policy.[20/02/2012 - links is ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
ODI Discussion paper, January 2012 4 pages
Authors: Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Maren Duvendack, Richard Mallett and Rachel Slater with Samuel Carpenter and Mathieu Tromme
This briefing paper reflects upon the use of systematic reviews in international development research. It attempts to identify where a systematic review approach adds value to development research and ...
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