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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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