Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Date: OCTOBER 1-5, 2012
Venue: HELSINKI, Finland
Conference website
EVALUATION IN THE NETWORKED SOCIETY: NEW CONCEPTS, NEW CHALLENGES, NEW SOLUTIONS
The Tenth Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society will be the international evaluation event of the year. It will be held in Helsinki, Finland during 3-5 October 2012 (pre-conference workshops 1- 2 October).
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Date: WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2011
Venue: BIS Conference Centre, Victor ia, London
Objectives:
To examine the key contributions of evaluation to international development
To provide an update on the accountability framework for evaluation in the UK
To explore the role of professional development in building evaluation capacity
THIS ONE DAY EVENT will raise important issues ...
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
A GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report, Date: 01.04.2011, 14 pages, available as pdf.
Query: To what extent have randomised control trials been used to successfully measure the results of empowerment and accountability processes or programmes?
Enquirer: DFID
Helpdesk response
Key findings: This report examines the extent to which RCTs have been used successfully to measure ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
Date: 25 July 2011 12:00-13:30 (GMT+01 (BST))
Venue: British Academy, London
This debate will explore possible tensions – and opportunities – when donors seek to reassure domestic publics that aid is being spent well, while also endeavouring to support the needs and priorities of aid recipient countries and their citizens.
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
- Exploring innovations in Australian NGO accountability for development effectiveness
by Chris Roche, ACFID research paper, 2010
From the Preface
"This research paper represents the latest chapter in a body of work, led by ACFID’s Development Practice Committee (DPC), focused on Australian NGO program quality and effectiveness. Over the past ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Source: Lindberg, S., 2010, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 117-142 VIA Governance and Social Development Resource Centre ]
Summary: What is the role of clientelism in African politics? How are MPs held accountable in Ghana? This article examines the daily accountability pressures and ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
....A question posed to the Research Helpdesk of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
"Key findings: DFID appears to have gone the furthest among aid agencies in developing the concept of ‘value for money’ (VFM). It is the only agency that explicitly uses the terminology frequently in its policies ...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
[from the IDS website]
McGee,R. and Gaventa, J. - 23-Nov-10
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Transparency and accountability have emerged over the past decade as key ways to address both developmental failures and democratic deficits. In the development context, the argument is that through greater accountability, ‘leaky ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
"In this essay, Andrew Natsios describes what he sees as the most disruptive obstacles to development work in agencies such as USAID: layers and layers of bureaucracy. He gives a first-hand account of how this “counter-bureaucracy” disfigures USAID’s development practice and even compromises U.S. national ...
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
"On the 22nd September, Rosalind Eyben organised a meeting of some seventy development practitioners and researchers worried about the current trend for funding organisations to support only those programmes designed to deliver easily measurable results, although these may not support transformative processes of positive and sustainable changes in people’s lives.
Following ...
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