10th European Evaluation Society Biennial Conference, Helsinki, Oct 2012

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Date: 3-5 October 2012 Venue: Helsinki, Finland EVALUATION IN THE NETWORKED SOCIETY: NEW CONCEPTS, NEW CHALLENGES, NEW SOLUTIONS The Tenth Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society will be the international evaluation event of the year. It will be held in Helsinki, Finland during 3-5 October 2012 (pre-conference workshops 1- 2 October). ...

Next Generation Network Evaluation

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Paper published June 2010. Produced by Innovations for Scaling Impact and Keystone Accountability. Funded by the International Development Research Center and the Packard Foundation. (Download pdf version here) "Purpose: This paper reviews the current field of network monitoring and evaluation with the goal of identifying where progress has been made and ...

Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

by Todd Honeycutt, Issue Brief, November 2009, Number 1,  Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 4 pages Abstract: "Social network analysis (SNA) is a methodological approach to measuring and mapping relationships. It can be used to study whole networks, all of the ties within a defined group, or connections that ...

NETWORKING: CURRENT MODALITIES AND FUTURE SCENARIOS

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Final Report, October 2007, Hanne Lund Madsen, h.lund.madsen@email.dk For The Danish Child & Youth NGO Network, The Danish NGO Education Network, Thematic Forum, Gendernet, Aidsnet The overall aim of this study is to: Provide a solid basis for discussion of the future perspectives for NGO Networks including a synthesis and analysis of experiences ...

The Use of Social Network Analysis Tools in the Evaluation of Social Change Communications

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

by Rick Davies (April 2009). This paper was produced for the Communication for Social Change Consortium, as a contribution to their paper for UNAIDS on reviewing approaches to monitoring and evaluation and advocating an expanded monitoring and evaluation framework for social change communication. All rights to this paper are with the ...

Strengthening humanitarian networks: Applying the network functions approach

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Ben Ramalingam, Enrique Mendizabal and Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop April 2008 >This note< offers a simple, flexible and powerful methodology — the network functions approach (NFA) — that can be applied to analyse and strengthen humanitarian and development networks. Based on research undertaken at ODI and elsewhere, the NFA suggests there ...

Social Network Analysis And the Evaluation of Leadership Networks

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Bruce Hoppe, Ph.D. Connective Associates LLC bruce@connectiveassociates.com Claire Reinelt, Ph.D. Leadership Learning Community claire@leadershiplearning.org January 19, 2009 Abstract Leadership development practitioners have become increasingly interested in networks as a way to strengthen relationships among leaders in fields, communities, and organizations. This paper offers a framework for conceptualizing different types of leadership networks and uses case ...

Stakeholder analysis and social network analysis in natural resource management

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Christina Prell, Klaus Hubacekb, Mark Reed, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and  Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, 2009 Full text here Introduction Many conservation initiatives fail because they pay inadequate attention to the interests and characteristics of stakeholders. (Grimble and Wellard, 1997). As a consequence, ...

Evaluating international advocacy networks

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Two papers by Ricardo Wilson-Grau Evaluating the Effects of International Advocacy Networks, Ricardo Wilson-Grau and Martha Nu. "This "think piece" will first sketch the special challenges of evaluating the effects of the advocacy work of international social change networks. I will then present the approach to evaluating advocacy that I use. ...

Potential Human Rights Uses of Network Analysis and Mapping

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

>A report< to the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Skye Bender-deMoll April 28, 2008. 47 pages Abstract: This report investigates potential new tools and existing applications of network analysis and network mapping to assist or facilitate human rights work. It provides a ...