Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Well, the beginnings of a list...
Please note: No guarantee can be given about the accuracy of information provided on the linked websites about the M&E software concerned, and its providers
Stand alone systems
PacPlan: "Results-Based Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Software and Process Solution"
Newdea - Monitoring and Evaluation Software, on YouTube
AidProject M+E for ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Michael Quinn Patton, August 2011. Sage publications
Publisher's description:
"Based on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Kim Forss, Mita Marra and Robert Schwartz, editors. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick. May 2011. Available via Amazon
"Problem-solving by policy initiative has come to stay. Overarching policy intiatives are now standard modus operandi for governmental and non-governmental organisations. But complex policy initiatives are not only reserved for the big challenges of ...
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
(via Bob Williams on EvalSys)
Systemic Approaches in Evaluation
Documentation of the Conference on 25-26 January 2011
"Development programs promote complex reforms and change processes. Such processes are often characterized by insecurity and unpredictability, posing a big challenge to the evaluation of development projects. In order to understand which ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2007. 48 pages. Available as pdf.
"Purpose"
"This document is designed for use by external evaluators who conduct initiative evaluations for theW.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) – and, hopefully, other foundations and government agencies. It presents a systems-oriented framework and four general designs for initiative and cluster evaluation. The ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
March 2010. Nobuko Fujita (Ed) Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) Available as pdf
"Editor’s Note: The 2010 Issues and Prospects of Evaluations for International Development employs systems concepts as clues to re-assess the conventional ways of conducting evaluations and to explore how development evaluation can potentially be ...
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Bob Williams and Iraj Imam (eds.)
EdgePress/American Evaluation Association (2007)
Systems Concepts in Evaluation: An Expert Anthology brings
together a wide range of systems concepts, methodologies and
methods and applies them to evaluation settings. This book
addresses the questions:
• What is a systems approach?
• What makes it different from other approaches?
• Why ...
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