Thursday, May 19th, 2011
(via Bob Williams on EvalSys)
Systemic Approaches in Evaluation
Documentation of the Conference on 25-26 January 2011
"Development programs promote complex reforms and change processes. Such processes are often characterized by insecurity and unpredictability, posing a big challenge to the evaluation of development projects. In order to understand which ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Utrecht Conference Report. Irene Guijt, Jan Brouwers, Cecile Kusters, Ester Prins and Bayaz Zeynalova. March 2011. Available as pdf
This report summarises the outline and outputs of the Conference ‘Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity’’, which took place on May 20-21, 2010. It also adds additional ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
[from the IDS Virtual Bulletin, March 2011]
Introduction
In this virtual Bulletin we bring together ten articles dating from across three decades. They all address Impact. From the outset, we ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
by John Kania and Mark Kramer, Standford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011. Available online and as pdf
The same work has also been the subject of a New York Times article "Coming Together to Give Schools a Boost By DAVID BORNSTEIN March 7, 2011. And further material is also available ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
Date: 29th March 2011
Venue: in the Netherlands
NOW CANCELLED. Further information will be provided when available
With pleasure we would like to announce an expert seminar with Dr. Michael Quinn Patton on 'Developmental evaluation - new kid on the evaluation block'.
Developmental evaluation is based on insights from complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Date: Wednesday 10 November 2010, 13.30-17.00 pm,
Venue: Theatre Concordia, Hoge Zand 42, The Hague, The Netherlands
The HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, PSO Capacity Building in Developing Countries, the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB), and Vredeseilanden/VECO ...
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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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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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Friday, February 19th, 2010
(Via Ben Ramalingam)
"The latest post on Aid on the Edge post compiles presentations and reports from meetings on evaluation and complexity (NORAD, Panos, Mokoro) that have taken place in the past few months and years, as well as planned meetings later this year"
The list:
Presentations given at a 2008 NORAD conference ‘Evaluating ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
PS: Videos of the event are now available: video_1.wmv video_2.wmv video_3.wmv . The EvaluationRevisited conference website also has a number of interesting post conference comments by different participants.
Date: 20-21 May 2010
Venue: Netherlands
On May 20-21, 2010, a conference on evaluation for development will be held in The Netherlands: “Evaluation Revisited: Improving ...
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