Measuring Impact: Lessons from the MCC for the Broader Impact Evaluation Community

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

William Savedoff and Christina Droggitis, Centre for Global Development, Aug 2011. Available as pdf (2 pages) Excerpt: "One organization that has taken the need for impact evaluation seriously is the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The first of the MCC programs came to a close this fiscal year, and in the next year the ...

Learning how to learn: eight lessons for impact evaluations that make a difference

Friday, April 15th, 2011

ODI Background Notes, April 2011. Authors: Ben Ramalingam "This Background Note outlines key lessons on impact evaluations, utilisation-focused evaluations and evidence-based policy. While methodological pluralism is seen as the key to effective impact evaluation in development, the emphasis here is not methods per se. Instead, the focus ...

Learning in Development

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Olivier Serrat, Asian Development Bank, 2010 "Learning in Development tells the story of independent evaluation in ADB—from its early years to the expansion of activities under a broader mandate—points up the application of knowledge management to sense-making, and brings to light the contribution that knowledge audits can make to organizational learning. ...

The CES Learning and Innovation Prize is open for entries.

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Closing date 17 January 2011 Charities Evaluation Services is celebrating the ways in which charities use monitoring information or evaluation findings to improve their work and influence others with the new Learning and Innovation Prize. The Prize is aimed at highlighting the contribution that monitoring and evaluation makes ...

RESOURCE PACK ON SYSTEMATIZATION OF EXPERIENCES

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

ActionAid International, 2009, 104 pages.  Available as pdf 3.39Mb See also the associated AAI website on systematization "Systematization is a methodology that offers a way to do all of the above. It allows us to: Organise and document what we have learnt through our work Better understand the impact of our work and the ...

ActionAid reports on “systematization”

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 ...

Identifiying and documenting “Lessons Learned”: A list of references

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Editor's note: This is a very provisional list of documents on the subject of Lessons Learned, what they are, and how to identify and document them. If you have other documents that you think should be included in this list, please make a comment below. Note: This is not a list of ...