Training: Monitoring and Evaluation for Results

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Date: May 11-15, 2009 Venue: Hotel Africa in Tunis, Tunisia SPONSORS World Bank Institute Evaluation Group (WBIEG) and Joint Africa Institute (JAI) TOPICS Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation Logic Models and Evaluation Questions Indicators and Measurement Research Designs Data Collection Reconstructing Baseline Data Sampling Data Analysis The Practice of Impact Evaluation Reporting Results and Utilization of Evaluations Managing Monitoring and Evaluation Functions

Training in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Date: 21st-24th June 2009 Venue: Belgium Channel Research and the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) are inviting participants for Training in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action, Belgium, 21st-24th June 2009 (actual training dates 22nd-24th June 2009). This course is an introductory-to-intermediate level course and has the overall aim of assisting ...

Results of the CONFERENCE ON IMPACT EVALUATION HELD IN CAIRO 29 MARCH – 2 APRIL

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

As documented on the conference website: KEY MESSAGES FROM THE CONFERENCE ON IMPACT EVALUATION HELD IN CAIRO  29 MARCH – 2 APRIL Zenda Ofir says "... papers presented at the conference will also be made available over the next week or two on the conference website at www.impactevaluation2009.org The draft NONIE ...

The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Authors Lisa Wyatt Knowlton (Ed.D.) and Cynthia C. Phillips (Ph.D.) Published October 2008. Available on Amazon.  Recommended by Jim Rugh Excerpt: "We approach logic models as important thinking and inquiry tools, and logic modeling as a process that contributes to clarity about a sequence of interactive relationships. Logic models display ...

Upcoming training opportunities with Jess Dart of Clear Horizon

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Date: 13-17th October 2008 Venue: Melbourne, Australia Upcoming training opportunities with Jess Dart of Clear Horizon. Build a People-Centred Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting & Improvement (MERI) Framework AU$800 Two days: 13th & 14th October Course Description: Increasingly, project teams are involved in designing monitoring, evaluation, frameworks. Having a strong program logic element, this people-centred approach uses ...

Aristotle and Plato at it again? Philosophical divergence within international aid project design and monitoring & evaluation

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Available from the AID-IT website Abstract: "International aid projects are broadly concerned with fostering change. Frequently, the 'theory of change' within an aid project is communicated using Logical Framework Analysis, or the 'logframe'. The logframe may be viewed from at least two philosophical perspectives-functionalist and interpretist. Functionalism is found to be ...

Customising definitions of outputs, outcomes and impact

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

(from the OM email list) I am continually challenged with the organisations with whom I work to define the terms we will use. They are by and large Northern donors and their grantees – development NGOs and social change networks. I find that the meaning of outcome and impact (and output) ...

Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Author: Coffman, Julia Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project Publication Date: September 2007 Abstract Are there shared elements-goals, outcomes, indicators-across different types of advocacy work? Can we create a common vocabulary for the advocacy evaluation field? The Composite Logic Model ("CLM") and associated materials was developed by Julia Coffman from Harvard Family Research ...

VisuaLyzer software: for visualising and analysing networks

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

There are now many different software packages available that can be used to visually represent networks, and to generate many different statistical measures of their structure. Unfortunately many of these involve a steep learning curve, and involve far more bells and whistles than I need.  VisuaLyzer is my favourite software ...

The Logical Framework: A list of useful documents

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Contents: 1. Explanations of the Logical Framework | 2. Wider discussions of Logic Models | 3. Critiques of the Logical Framework |  4. Alternative versions of the Logical Framework |  5. The Editor's concerns (about uses of the Logical Framework) | 6. Online survey on views and usage of the ...