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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
"What is the data analyst to do when he is handed a dataset over whose design and formatting he had little control or none? For the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) in Geneva, Aldo Benini wrote two technical briefs - "How to approach a dataset - Part 1: Data preparation" and ...
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
(found via IFAD posting on Xceval)
[from the IFAD website] "The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) is making publicly available all the ratings on the performance of IFAD-supported operations evaluated since 2002. As such, IOE joins the few development organizations that currently make such data available to the public ...
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
GSDRC Help Desk Research Report, Siân Herbert 25.03.2013. Available as pdf
Question : What recent work has been done on assessing the quality and limitations of using perception surveys in fragile and conflict affected states?
Contents (10 pages in all)
1. Overview
2. Strengths of perception surveys
3. Limitations of perception surveys
4. Methodological approaches to ...
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have been cited in the past as examples of projects that are suitable for testing via randomised control trials. They are relatively simple interventions that can be delivered in a standardised manner. Or so it seemed.
Last year Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer wrote ...
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
(from The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, For Immediate Release, May 09, 2013)
Executive Order -- Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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MAKING OPEN AND MACHINE READABLE THE NEW DEFAULT
FOR GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
By the authority vested in me as ...
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Inspired by visitors'' positive responses to the imaginative use of flow charts I have wondered how else Theories of Change could be described. The following thought came to me early this morning!
(with apologies to South Park)
See 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Comics, at Mashable, for links to ...
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Complete with "If...and...then" logic and even feedback loops (indicating an iterative approach to problem solving). But where are the means of verification?
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Thanks to the designer who can be found here
See also: Total Eclipse of the Heart and three more in more abbreviated forms (including my current ...
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Christel Vermeersch, Elisa Rothenbühler, Jennifer Renee Sturdy, for the World Bank
Version 1.0. June 2012
Download full document: English [PDF, 3.83MB] / Español [PDF, 3.47MB] / Francais [PDF, 3.97MB]
View online: http://www.worldbank.org/health/impactevaluationtoolkit
"The Toolkit was developed with funding from the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF). The objective of the HRITF is to ...
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Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Findings from Comparative Policy Advocacy MEL Review Project
by Jim Coe and Juliette Majot | February 2013. Oxfam and ODI
Executive Summary & Full text available as pdf
"For organizations committed to social change, advocacy often figures as a crucial strategic element. How to assess effectiveness in advocacy is, therefore, important. The usefulness ...
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Centre for Global Development Working Paper 321 3/27/13 Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Alice Ng'ang'a, and Justin Sandefur
Available as pdf
Abstract
The recent wave of randomized trials in development economics has provoked criticisms regarding external validity. We investigate two concerns—heterogeneity across beneficiaries and implementers—in a randomized trial of contract teachers in ...
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