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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Saturday, February 9th, 2013
From AEA365:| A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators. Posted: 08 Feb 2013 12:51 AM PST
"We are Colleen Duggan, Senior Evaluation Specialist, International Development Research Centre (Canada) and Kenneth Bush, Director of Research, International Conflict Research (Northern Ireland). For the past three years, we have been collaborating on a joint exploratory ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Original paper by Steven Teles, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, and Mark Schmitt, Roosevelt Institute. Published with support provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Found courtesy of @alb202
A version of this paper was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in May 2011 and is available ...
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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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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Michael Hammer, Charlotte Rooney, and Shana Warren
ISSN 2043-7943 Briefing paper number 125, March 2010. One World Trust.
"Global and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are the most distinct organisational form of civil society, and as such have become increasingly involved and influential in forming public opinion and policy through targeted and professional ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
From the ActionAid website
"Systematization is the reconstruction of and analytical reflection about an experience. Through systematization, events are interpreted in order to understand them… The systematization allows for the experience to be discussed and compared with other similar experiences, and with existing theories and, thus, contributes to an accumulation of ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Tracking Progress in Advocacy - Why and How to Monitor and Evaluate Advocacy Projects and Programmes looks at the scope of, and rational for, engaging in advocacy work as part of development interventions, then focuses on the monitoring and evaluating of these efforts - offering reasons why and when these ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
(email from Pathfinder) Hi Rick. We recently published a new resource for the advocacy evaluation field. Our new guide, Pathfinder : A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation, comes in three editions-one each for advocates, evaluators, and funders. All three editions, plus a bibliography of useful resources, are free to download ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
Two papers by Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Evaluating the Effects of International Advocacy Networks, Ricardo Wilson-Grau and Martha Nu. "This "think piece" will first sketch the special challenges of evaluating the effects of the advocacy work of international social change networks. I will then present the approach to evaluating advocacy that I use. ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Author: Jane Reisman, Anne Gienapp, and Sarah Stachowiak
Publisher: Organizational Research Services
Publication Date: 2007
Abstract
What are examples of data collection tools for evaluating advocacy?
This handbook of tools is a companion to ORS' "A Guide To Measuring Advocacy And Policy". The data collection tools included in the handbook have actually ...
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