Monday, September 26th, 2011
The beginnings of a list. Please suggest others by using the Comment facility below
Normative statements:
DFID Evaluation Quality Assurance templates for Entry level and Exit level. Entry level refers to TORs or evaluation plans, Exit level refers to draft evaluation reports. Circa 2011.
USAID Evaluation Policy, January 2011. See Section 4 on ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Available at ADB website
Background
This report summarizes the key findings and lessons of evaluation studies carried out in 2010, and provides trends in the success rates of ADB operations. It also reviews the recommendations from evaluation reports and the status of actions taken by ADB Management in response to these recommendations. ...
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Prepared by Miranda Cahn, Evaluation Advisor, Strategy, Advisory and Evaluation Group, NZAID, Wellington, August 2009. Available online
Executive Summary
Introduction
The New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) is committed to improving evaluative activity1, including evaluations and reviews. Since 2005 NZAID has undertaken annual desk studies of the evaluations and reviews completed by ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
The Quality of DFID's Evaluation Reports and Assurance Systems
Request for comments on reports ( by Roger Riddell, Burt Perrin and Richard Manning) commissioned by IACDI.
As part of its role in monitoring evaluation quality in DFID, IACDI commissioned a review to assess the quality of DFID's evaluation reports and its assurance ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
EVALUATOR VIEWS OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE.
This paper was produced independently by Richard Blue, Cynthia Clapp-Wincek, and Holly Benner. MAY 2009
See Full-Report or Policy_Brief (draft for comment)
"Findings derive from literature review, interviews with senior USG officials and primarily interviews with and survey responses from ‘external evaluators’—individuals who conduct ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
An Editorial in Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, Volume 5, Number 11, January 2009
In this short and readable paper Michael Scriven addresses "three categories of issues that arise about meta-evaluation: (i) exactly what is it; (ii) how is it justified; (iii) when and how should it be used? In the following, ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Final Report May 2008, Hanne Lund Madsen, HLM Consult
As a first step in the follow-up to the Assessment of the Administration of the Danish NGO Support, the Evaluation Department of the Ministry in cooperation with the Quality Assurance Department and the NGO Department wished to map the existing evaluation and monitoring ...
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