US Congress Committee on Financial Services that looked into ‘The World Bank’s Disclosure Policy Review and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes’.

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

(from the Pelican email list) Dear all, In reaction to the message that I sent to you earlier today, Alnoor Ebrahim sent me a link to a recent hearing of the US Congress Committee on Financial Services that looked into 'The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review and the Role of Democratic Participatory ...

Evaluation in the UK third sector: current issues, future challenges

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Workshop Date: Thursday 8th October 2009 Time: 12.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: Toynbee Hall, Aldgate, London Twenty years ago, evaluation in the third sector was limited. There was very little support for third sector organisations wishing to evaluate their work, and self-evaluation was treated with suspicion by many. The situation ...

2009 Measuring Effectiveness conference – Melbourne

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Date: 17th - 18 September 2009 Venue: Anglis Conference centre, Melbourne Preparations for the fourth annual Measuring Effectiveness conference are currently underway. The conference will again be held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Angliss Conference Centre, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September, 2009. This year the conference theme is 'Community, ...

Dangerous Correlations: Aid’s Impact on NGOs’ Performance and Ability to Mobilize Members in Pakistan

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Masooda Banoa, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Accepted 22 November 2007. Available online 2 July 2008. Summary Based on a country-wide survey of 40 civil society organizations in Pakistan, this paper demonstrates that the policy of channeling development aid through NGOs in the South in the name of generating social capital and ...

Guidance on M&E for Civil Society Programs: Prepared for AusAID Program Managers

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

>A report< by Linda Kelly, Rosalind David, Chris Roche. December 2008 Introduction "AusAID supports a range of civil society programs across several countries. These include large scale bi-lateral programs as well as smaller projects focused on particular sectors and programs which support the work of non-Government Organisations (NGOs). Civil society work is ...

Participatory Impact Assessment: a Guide for Practitioners

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this experience, the guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in ...

Does Empowerment Work?

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

“Does Empowerment Work?: Underlying concepts and the experience of two community empowerment programs in Cambodia and Tanzania ” (2008), by Aldo Benini. This book length document "investigates the effectiveness in poor rural societies of a concept of modernity that has enjoyed an explosive ...

Impact assessment: Drivers, dilemmas and deliberations

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Prepared for Sightsavers International by Jennifer Chapman & Antonella Mancini jenny.chapman@tiscali.co.uk antonella.mancini@blueyonder.co.uk 9 pages 10th April 2008 "This paper investigates key debates and issues around impact assessment and performance measurement for UK development NGOs. It was originally written for Sightsavers to stimulate debate and thinking among staff, Board and senior management team. ...