Impact Evaluation Toolkit: Measuring the Impact of Results Based Financing on Maternal and Child Health

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Christel Vermeersch, Elisa Rothenbühler, Jennifer Renee Sturdy, for the World Bank Version 1.0. June 2012 Download full document: English [PDF, 3.83MB] / Español [PDF, 3.47MB] / Francais [PDF, 3.97MB] View online: http://www.worldbank.org/health/impactevaluationtoolkit "The Toolkit was developed with funding from the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF). The objective of  the HRITF is to ...

Livestreaming of the Impact, Innovation & Learning conference, 26-27 March 2013

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

(via Xceval) Dear Friends You may be interested in following next week's Impact, Innovation and Learning conference, whose principle panel sessions are being live-streamed. Keynote speakers and panellists include: Bob Bob Picciotto (King's College, UKES, EES), Elliot Stern, Editor of 'Evaluation', Bruno Marchal (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp), John Grove (Gates Foundation), Ben Ramalingan ...

Impact Evaluation: A Discussion Paper for AusAID Practitioners

Friday, October 12th, 2012

"There are diverse views about what impact evaluations are and how they should be conducted. It is not always easy to identify and understand good approaches to impact evaluation for various development situations. This may limit the value that AusAID can obtain from impact evaluation. This discussion paper aims to support ...

DFID’s Approach to Impact Evaluation – Part I

Monday, July 9th, 2012

[from Development Impact: News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation.  Click here https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/node/838 to view full story. As part of a new series looking how institutions are approaching impact evaluation, DI virtually sat down with Nick York, Head of Evaluation and Gail Marzetti, Deputy Head, Research ...

LINKING MONITORING AND EVALUATION TO IMPACT EVALUATION

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Burt Perrin, Impact Evaluation Notes  No. 2. April 2012 Rockefeller Foundation and Interaction. Available as pdf Summary This is the second guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This second guidance note, Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation, illustrates ...

The Impact of Economics Blogs

Monday, October 31st, 2011

David McKenzie (World Bank, BREAD, CEPR and IZA) and Berk Özler (World Bank). Policy Research Working Paper 5783. August 2011. Available as pdf. See also the authors' blog about this paper. Introduction: Practically nonexistent a decade ago, blogs by economic scholars have become commonplace. Economics blogs, such as Freakonomics, Marginal Revolution, ...

Impact Evaluation for Development: Principles for Action

Monday, September 19th, 2011

IE4D Group, January 2011. Available as pdf "The authors of this paper come from a variety of perspectives. As scholars, practitioners, and commissioners of evaluation in development, research and philanthropy, our thematic interests, disciplines, geographic locale, and experiences may differ but we share a fundamental belief that evaluative knowledge has the ...

Measuring Impact on the Immeasurable? Methodological Challenges in Evaluating Democracy and Governance Aid

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

by Jennifer Gauck, University of Kent, Canterbury - Department of Politics, 2011. APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper. Available as pdf Abstract: "Recent debates over the quality, quantity and purpose of development aid has led to a renewed emphasis on whether, and in what circumstances, aid is effective in achieving development outcomes. A ...

Micro-Methods in Evaluating Governance Interventions

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

This paper is available as a pdf.  It should be cited as follows: Garcia, M. (2011): Micro-Methods in Evaluating Governance Interventions. Evaluation Working Papers. Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung. The aim of this paper is to present a guide to impact evaluation methodologies currently used in the field ...

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Impact Evaluation and Measuring Results

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. Issues Paper by Sabine Garbarino and Jeremy Holland March 2009 1 Introduction There has been a renewed interest in impact evaluation in recent years amongst development agencies and donors. Additional attention was drawn to the issue recently by a Center for Global Development (CGD) report calling ...