27 Oct Symposium: NGO-IDEAs – grassroots based impact monitoring

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Date: 27 October 2011 Venue: Bonn, Germany Dear all, For the last three years, 14 German NGOs with 40 NGOs from Asia and Africa have been working to develop tools for assessing change and its causes, in short: impact monitoring that were to be specifically relevant for NGOs. Under the name of NGO-IDEAs, ...

DFID&UKES Workshop on Development and Evaluation: Practical Ways Forward.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

  Date:  WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2011 Venue: BIS Conference Centre, Victor ia, London Objectives: To examine the key contributions of evaluation to international development To provide an update on the accountability framework for evaluation in the UK To explore the role of professional development in building evaluation capacity THIS ONE DAY EVENT will raise important issues ...

Measuring Up: HIV-related advocacy evaluation training pack (draft)

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

HIV-related advocacy evaluation training for civil society organisations. Produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Secretariat), International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), July 2010, 38 pages. Available as .pdf "This training pack is published by the Alliance and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and consists of two guides designed ...

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 ...

Listen First: a pilot system for managing downward accountability in NGOs

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Alex Jacobs and Robyn Wilford. Development in Practice, Volume 20, Number 7, September 2010 Available as pdf "Abstract: This article reports on a research project intended to develop systematic ways of managing downward accountability in an international NGO. Innovative tools were developed and trialled in six countries. The tools comprised a ...

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Alnoor Ebrahim, V. Kasturi Rangan, Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School (2010) Working Paper 10-099 Available as pdf ABSTRACT "Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on ...

How Wide are the Ripples?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Report of the March 2010 workshop Prepared by Louise Clark, Kate Newman and Hannah Beardon "This report presents reflections from a workshop held in London on 18th and 19th March 2010. The workshop was part of a larger process of reflection and research, supported by IKM Emergent and called ‘How ...

Addressing accountability in NGO advocacy: Practice, principles and prospects of self-regulation

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Michael Hammer, Charlotte Rooney, and Shana Warren ISSN 2043-7943 Briefing paper number 125, March 2010. One World Trust. "Global and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are the most distinct organisational form of civil society, and as such have become increasingly involved and influential in forming public opinion and policy through targeted and professional ...

Accountability Toolkits for CSO Umbrella Groups in India, Belize, Uganda and the Pacific Region

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

(from the One World Trust 's "Accountability in Action" newsletter, January 2010) "Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have seen a significant change in their role and influence in society and politics. They are now major providers of essential services, influential advocates for marginalised groups and knowledgeable advisors on public policy. As ...

How wide are the ripples? The management and use of information generated from participatory processes in international non-governmental development organisations.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

In early 2009 five international development NGOs participated in reflection and discussion as part of a research project called ‘How wide are the ripples?’. The aim was to explore the flow and influence of knowledge produced in grassroots participatory processes within the international NGOs which commissioned or initiated process.  This ...