Friday, February 10th, 2012
The International Council on Human Rights Policy has produced two documents under the above named project(See here for details of the project):
No Perfect Measure: Rethinking Evaluationand Assessment of Human Rights Work. Report of a Workshop, January 2012. Contents: Introduction and Context,,A Brief History,,NGO Hesitations, The Shift, Assessing the Impact of ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
[from the Emergency Capacity Building Project website]
Published on 6 April 2011
The Department for International Development (DfID / UKAID) awarded a grant for the ECB Project to develop a new Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement. Lead by Dr. Vivien Walden from Oxfam, a team of ECB specialists from CRS, Save ...
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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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Friday, March 4th, 2011
Andrew Catley – John Burns – Dawit Abebe – Omeno Suji, Feintein International Centre, Tufts University, 2008. Available as pdf
"Purpose of this guide
The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this experience, this ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
[from NONIE Meeting 2011 website, posting by Howard White]
"There has been enormous progress in impact evaluation of development interventions in the last five years. The 2006 CGD report When Will be Ever Learn? claimed that there was little rigorous evidence of what works in development. But ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
Kate Schreckenberg, Izabel Camargo, Katahdin Withnall, Colleen Corrigan, Phil Franks, Dilys Roe, Lea M. Scherl and Vanessa Richardson.
Published: May 2010 - IIED, London, 124 pages
Summary
"Areas of land and sea are increasingly being marked out for protection in response to various demands: to tackle biodiversity loss, to prevent ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Report for the Inter-Agency Working Group on Joint Humanitarian Impact
Evaluation. Tony Beck January 2011
" Background and purpose
Since the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition there have been ongoing discussions concerning mainstreaming joint impact evaluation within the humanitarian system. With pressure to demonstrate that results are being achieved by humanitarian action, the question has ...
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
Date: Date: 23 November 2010
Venue: Venue: St Anne's College, Oxford, UK
There are many debates about the ‘So what?’ question, in terms of concerns about the actual impact of international cooperation. What is the development sector actually achieving in terms of improving the lives of the poor? Have we focused on ...
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
Via Xceval: No exactly breaking news (11 months later), but still likely to be of wide interest:
October 7, 2009
M-10-01
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Peter R. Orszag
Director
SUBJECT: Increased Emphasis on Program Evaluations
Rigorous, independent program evaluations can be a key resource in determining whether government programs are achieving ...
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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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