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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
HIV-related advocacy evaluation training for civil society organisations.
Produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Secretariat), International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), July 2010, 38 pages. Available as .pdf
"This training pack is published by the Alliance and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and consists of two guides designed ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2007. 48 pages. Available as pdf.
"Purpose"
"This document is designed for use by external evaluators who conduct initiative evaluations for theW.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) – and, hopefully, other foundations and government agencies. It presents a systems-oriented framework and four general designs for initiative and cluster evaluation. The ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
ActionAid International, 2009, 104 pages. Available as pdf 3.39Mb
See also the associated AAI website on systematization
"Systematization is a methodology that offers a way to do all of the above. It allows us to:
Organise and document what we have learnt through our work
Better understand the impact of our work and the ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
GRDC Helpdesk Research Report by Sumedh Rao, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, July 2010. 16 pages. Available as pdf
Query: Identify the key literature that critiques the use and application of governance assessments. Enquirer: DFID
Contents
1. Overview
2. General critiques
3. Critiques of measurement
4. Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
5. African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)
6. ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
David Snowden, 2010. 21 pages. Available as pdf, from the Cognitive Edge site
"Narrative Research, ... lays the foundation for the use of narrative research and inquiry methods not only in the project but broadly in the field of research and consultancy.... Elements of it together with general material ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Alex Jacobs and Robyn Wilford. Development in Practice, Volume 20, Number 7, September 2010 Available as pdf
"Abstract: This article reports on a research project intended to develop systematic ways of managing downward accountability in an international NGO. Innovative tools were developed and trialled in six countries. The tools comprised a ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Alnoor Ebrahim, V. Kasturi Rangan, Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School (2010) Working Paper 10-099 Available as pdf
ABSTRACT
"Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on ...
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Produced by CTA, KIT, IICD. 2nd (2009) edition
PDF version available online
"About the Toolkit
The Smart Toolkit focuses on the evaluation of information projects, products and services from a learning perspective. It looks at evaluation within the context of the overall project cycle, from project planning and implementation to ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
OECD DAC NETWORK ON DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION, February 2010 Download a pdf copy
"The DAC Network on Development Evaluation is a unique international forum that brings together evaluation managers and specialists from development co-operation agencies in OECD member countries and multilateral development institutions. Its goal is to increase the effectiveness of international ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The DAC Network on Development Evaluation, OECD, 2010. Download a pdf copy
"Introduction
In June 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Network on Development Evaluation agreed to undertake a study of its members’ evaluation systems and resources. The study aims to take stock of how ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Quantifying qualitative outcomes from people’s own analysis. Insights for results-based management from the experience of a social movement in Bangladesh Dee Jupp Sohel Ibn Ali with contribution from Carlos Barahona 2010: Sida Studies in Evaluation. Download pdf
Preamble
Participation has been widely taken up as an essential element of development, but participation ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Paper published June 2010. Produced by Innovations for Scaling Impact and Keystone Accountability. Funded by the International Development Research Center and the Packard Foundation. (Download pdf version here)
"Purpose: This paper reviews the current field of network monitoring and evaluation with the goal of identifying where progress has been made and ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
March 2010. Nobuko Fujita (Ed) Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) Available as pdf
"Editor’s Note: The 2010 Issues and Prospects of Evaluations for International Development employs systems concepts as clues to re-assess the conventional ways of conducting evaluations and to explore how development evaluation can potentially be ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Date: 25-28 October 2010
Venue: The Lalit Hotel , New Delhi, India
“Making Evaluation Matter” is the theme of the conclave. The theme embodies an idea of evaluation that starts with relevance and context, with a strong understanding of who evaluation should serve.
The event will attract global thinkers engaged in cutting edge ...
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Copied from the DFID website, 3rd June 2010:
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"British taxpayers will see exactly how and where overseas aid money is being spent and a new independent watchdog will help ensure this aid is good value for money, International Development Secretary ...
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