GTZ/BMZ Evaluation and Systems Conference papers

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 ...

Evaluation Revisited – Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity

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 ...

IMPACT AND AID EFFECTIVENESS: Mapping the Issues and their Consequences

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 ...

Collective Impact

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 ...

Expert seminar with Dr MQ Patton ‘Developmental evaluation’

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, ...

Seminar: Complexity-oriented Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): from alternative to mainstream?

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 ...

Narrative Research

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 ...

Beyond Logframe: Using Systems Concepts in Evaluation

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 ...

Meetings on evaluation and complexity

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 ...

Conference: “Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity.”

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 ...