Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Cathy James, September 2011. 33 pages. Available as pdf.
The review approach Comic Relief’s international grants team commissioned this review to capture staff and partners’ experiences in using theory of change; to identify others in development that are using theory of change and analyse their different approaches; and to draw together ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Care International UK, January 2012. 12 pages. Available as pdf
Executive Summary: "Focusing on theories of change can improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. A review of 19 peacebuilding projects in three confict-affected countries found that the process of articulating and reviewing theories of change adds rigour and transparency, clarifes project ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Date: 17-18 October 2011
Venue: ANU, Canberra, Australia
Concept Note, Chris Roche & Linda Kelly, 4 August 2011
The Developmental Leadership Program (DLP)[1] addresses an important gap in international thinking and policy about the critical role played by leaders, elites and coalitions in the politics of development. At the core of DLP thinking ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
by Anand P. Gupta, Economic Management Institute, New Delhi, India
in Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2:4, 566-573, December 2010.
[Found courtesy of Public Financial Management Blog]
"In 2005, the Government of India launched an apparently excellent initiative – the Outcome Budget – with the objective of changing the culture of measuring performance in ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
A paper to the DFID Development Policy Committee. Available as pdf June 2011
Introduction
"1 The Strategy Unit brief of April 2008 envisaged that DFID should become more systematic in planning and implementing influencing efforts. Since then, procedures and guidance have been developed and there is an increasingly explicit use of influencing ...
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Iñigo Retolaza Eguren, HIVOS/DD/UNDP, May 2011 Available as pdf.
"This guide has been jointly published by Hivos and UNDP, and is aimed at the rich constellation of actors linked to processes of social development and change: bilateral donors, community leaders, political and social leaders, NGO’s representatives, community-base ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
by Sue C. Funnell, Patricia J. Rogers. March 2011. Available on Amazon.
Product Description
"Program Theory in Evaluation Practice is a ground–breaking reference that teaches how to develop an explicit causal model that links an intervention (project, program or policy) with its intended or observed impacts and using this ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
A three-day workshop jointly organised by Maastricht University and the University of Antwerp.
Date: April 28-30, 2010
Venue: Institute of Development Policy and Management, Lange Sint Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Focus
In the past few years development organizations in both North and South have focused on improving ...
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