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- MPs report on Department for International Development Financial Management,
- How to monitor and evaluate anti-corruption agencies,
- Monitoring Policy Dialogue: Lessons From A Pilot Study,
- Asian Development Bank: 2011 Annual Evaluation Review,
- Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation,
- Impact Evaluation for Development: Principles for Action,
- Evaluation of Governance – A Study of the Government of India’s Outcome Budget,
- Measuring National Well-being: Measuring What Matters,
- Released: Australian Government’s response to the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness,
- The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy,
- Cost-Benefit Analysis in World Bank Projects,
- Evaluating Legislation and Other Non-Expenditure Instruments in the Area of Information Society and Media,
- MECHANISM EXPERIMENTS AND POLICY EVALUATIONS,
- Tools and Methods for Evaluating the Efficiency of Development Interventions,
- The “Real Book” for story evaluation methods,
- Synthesis Study of DFID’s Strategic Evaluations 2005 – 2010,
- Impact Evaluation in Practice,
- Evaluation Revisited – Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity,
- Purposeful Program Theory: Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models,
- Making Evaluations Matter: a Practical Guide for Evaluators.,
- Social Return On Investment: A practical guide for the development cooperation sector,
- UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) – online consultation,
- WEBINAR SERIES: EMERGING PRACTICES IN DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION,
- Do Less Transparent Donors Allocate Aid Differently?,
- Reflexive Monitoring in Action: A guide for monitoring system innovation projects,
- Launch of online database of research accountability tools,
- Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists,
- How Wide are the Ripples?,
- Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods,
- Stories vs. Statistics: The Impact of Anecdotal Data on Accounting Decision Making,
- NZAID 2008 Evaluations and Reviews: Annual Report on Quality, 2009,
- Addressing accountability in NGO advocacy: Practice, principles and prospects of self-regulation,
- Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation,
- Analyzing the Effects of Policy Reforms on the Poor: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of World Bank Support to Poverty and Social Impact Analyses,
- UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards,
- Publications on accountability of technological innovation,
- “Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity Building: Is it really that difficult?’,
- Evaluating Climate Change and Development,
- Meetings on evaluation and complexity,
- Invitation to submit research accountability tools and systems for online database,
- Challenges of Program Evaluation Practice in Africa,
- Accountability Toolkits for CSO Umbrella Groups in India, Belize, Uganda and the Pacific Region,
- Twitter feeds on M&E: A List,
- Perspectives on partnership: A literature review,
- Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?,
- ActionAid reports on “systematization”,
- Pathfinder : A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation,
- How wide are the ripples? The management and use of information generated from participatory processes in international non-governmental development organisations.,
- Open Aid: Public Online Monitoring for Better Aid,
- THE PITFALLS OF MONITORING & EVALUATION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS, WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT, GENDER EQUALITY: DO CURRENT FRAMEWORKS REALLY SERVE US?,
- [US] OMB Releases Plan to Elevate Performance Evaluation,
- A Transaction Cost-Based Approach to Partnership Performance Evaluation,
- 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’.,
- Quality Review consultation ends: 23rd October 2009,
- Strengthening humanitarian networks: Applying the network functions approach,
- 3ie will award up to $10 million in research grants to improve development effectiveness,
- Community Radio Performance Assessment System.,
- New Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results,
- “Text Analysis under Time Pressure. Tools for humanitarian and development workers”,
- Accountability Principles for Research Organisations,
- Theory-Based Impact Evaluation: Principles and Practice,
- Designing impact evaluations: different perspectives,
- Utilization-focused evaluation for agricultural innovation,
- ALNAP 8th Review of Humanitarian Action,
- Assessing aid impact: a review of Norwegian evaluation practice,
- NAO Review – DFID: Progress in improving performance management,
- Learning purposefully in capacity development ,
- Guidance on using the revised Logical Framework (DFID 2009),
- BEYOND SUCCESS STORIES: MONITORING & EVALUATION FOR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE RESULTS,
- A brief summary and links to IDEAS global assembly held in Jo-Burg, March 2009,
- IFAD “Evaluation Manual: Methodology and Processes.,
- Quantification of qualitative data in the water sector: The challenges,
- Survey of Donor Approaches to Governance Assessment,
- 3ie news: Working paper series launched,
- The Accountability Initiative,
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Impact Evaluation and Measuring Results,
- Review of results-based management at the United Nations,
- M&E Newsletters,
- Following the Money: Do Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys matter?,
- Dangerous Correlations: Aid’s Impact on NGOs’ Performance and Ability to Mobilize Members in Pakistan,
- Guidance on M&E for Civil Society Programs: Prepared for AusAID Program Managers,
- Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems. Better evidence, better policies, better development results,
- Who Answers to Women? GENDER & ACCOUNTABILITY,
- MAPPING OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION PRACTICES AMONG DANISH NGOS,
- The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results,
- One World Trust on Accountability of Research Organisations,
- Evaluating international advocacy networks,
- Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration,
- Is Empowerment Efficient?: A Data Envelopment Analysis of 260 Local Associations in Bangladesh,
- GRDC Helpdesk Research Report: Monitoring and Evaluation of Participation in Governance,
- AusAID first: Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2007,
- International Aid Transparency Initiative,
- [Video conference] From Rhetoric to Action: E-Government and Aid Effectiveness,
- Survey on Evaluation of US Government Foreign Assistance,
- Aristotle and Plato at it again? Philosophical divergence within international aid project design and monitoring & evaluation,
- Working Together to Make Aid More Effective,
- Social Audit Toolkit – 4th Edition,
- Producing Social Accountability? The Impact of Service Delivery Reforms,
- Discussion of the use of the OECD/DAC Criteria for International Development Evaluations,
- Customising definitions of outputs, outcomes and impact,
- Reducing World Poverty by Improving Evaluation of Development Aid,
- Potential Human Rights Uses of Network Analysis and Mapping,
- A Handbook Of Data Collection Tools: Companion To “A Guide To Measuring Advocacy And Policy”,
- Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model,
- Public consultation on DFID’s new performance frameworks with UNDP, UNFPA and UNAIDS,
- Outcome-Based Conditionality: Too Good To Be True?,
- Does Empowerment Work?,
- Efficient linking of lists in humanitarian data management,
- Tracing Power and Influence in Networks:Net-Map as a Tool for Research and Strategic Network Planning,
- A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition Assessment, Education and Counseling of People Living With HIV,
- The material and political bases of lived poverty in Africa: insights from the Afrobarometer,
- Poverty and environment indicators,
- National Audit Office: Good Governance Review on DFID’s Monitoring and Evaluation Arrangements,
- Online M&E training: Additional sources,
- SlideShare presentations on Monitoring and Evaluation: A List,
- Online training: M&E Fundamentals,
- Evaluation Essentials: Methods For Conducting Sound Research,
- Basic Necessities Survey versus Schreiner’s Simple Poverty Scorecard,
- Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Organisations: Sharing training and facilitation experiences,
- Systematic synthesis of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) project evaluation reports for evidence-based policy: a proof-of-concept study,
- Advancing the Standards, Practice, and Use of Evaluation,
- Miradi – adaptive management software for conservation projects,
- 2008 Reader on Measuring and Reporting Results,
- Improving poverty measurement in Sri Lanka,
- Net-Map Training in Washington,
- Checklist designed to guide evaluations of sustainability,
- Evaluation of Results Based Management at UNDP,
- DFID’s Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact (IACDI),
- Amazon books on monitoring and evaluation,
- Protected: April 2007 Wageningen MSC presentation materials,
- SlideShare presentations on Social Network Analysis: A list,
- AidProject M+E software,
- STEPS Toolkit: Steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change,
- Results Based Management Explained (by the ADB),
- The road to nowhere? Results based management in international cooperation,
- Improving health services through community score cards. A case study from Andhra Pradesh, India,
- SYSTEMS CONCEPTS IN EVALUATION: AN EXPERT ANTHOLOGY,
- Pathways for change: monitoring and evaluation,
- Horizontal Evaluation: Fostering Knowledge Sharing and Program Improvement within a Network,
- Evaluation Of Citizens’ Voice & Accountability – Review Of The Literature & Donor Approaches Report,
- Negotiated Learning: Collaborative Monitoring for Forest Resource Management,
- Stories of Significance: Redefining Change – An assortment of community voices and articulations,
- The utilisation of evaluations.,
- Results-based Management in CIDA,
- Networks and policy processes in international development: a literature review,
- Who Measures Change,
- Experiences of Uganda’s PPA in implementing and monitoring poverty reduction,
- Peer Review: A Tool for Co-operation and Change,
- Guide for the Development of Results-based Management and Accountability Frameworks,
- Results Based Management In The Development Co-Operation Agencies: A Review Of Experience Background Report,
Uncategorized
- The Ethnographic Explorer: Help Pages,
- Findings and recommendations from the Evaluation Methods Advisory Panel at WFP,
- The Australian Centre for Evaluation – plans, context, critiques,
- Connecting Foresight and Evaluation,
- Defining the Agenda: Key Lessons for Funders and Commissioners of Ethical Research in Fragile and Conflict Affected Contexts,
- Algorithmic Impact Assessment – Three+ useful publications by Data & Society,
- The revised UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluations (2020),
- On the usefulness of deliberate (but bounded) randomness in decision making,
- Mapping the Standards of Evidence used in UK social policy.,
- Computational Modelling: Technological Futures,
- The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values,
- Releasing the power of digital data for development. A guide to new opportunities,
- Brian Castellani’s Map of the Complexity Sciences,
- Linked Democracy Foundations, Tools, and Applications,
- Participatory modelling and mental models,
- Subjective measures in humanitarian analysis,
- PRISM: TOOLKIT FOR EVALUATING THE OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS ?OF SMALL/MEDIUM-SIZED CONSERVATION PROJECTS,
- Recent readings: Replication of findings (not), argument for/against “mixed methods”, use of algorithms (public accountability, cost/benefits, meta data),
- Why have evaluators been slow to adopt big data analytics?,
- Order and Diversity: Representing and Assisting Organisational Learning in Non-Government Aid Organisations.,
- Twitters posts tagged as #evaluation,
- REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES TO RANDOMIZATION AND THEIR SOLUTIONS,
- Riddle me this: How many interviews (or focus groups) are enough?,
- How to find the right answer when the “wisdom of the crowd” fails?,
- Integrating Big Data into the Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes,
- New books on the pros and cons of algorithms,
- The sources of algorithmic bias,
- Two useful papers on the practicalities of doing Realist Evaluation,
- The Value of Evaluation: Tools for Budgeting and Valuing Evaluations,
- Process Tracing and Bayesian updating for impact evaluation,
- Pathways to change: Evaluating development interventions with qualitative comparative analysis (QCA),
- A Review of Umbrella Fund Evaluation – Focusing on Challenge Funds,
- USAID: A GUIDE TO THE MODIFIED BASIC NECESSITIES SURVEY WHY AND HOW TO CONDUCT BNS IN CONSERVATION LANDSCAPES,
- Power calculation for causal inference in social science: Sample size and minimum detectable effect determination,
- Evaluating the impact of flexible development interventions,
- Learning about Analysing Networks to Support Development Work?,
- Basic Field Guide to the Positive Deviance Approach,
- Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change: a guide for facilitators,
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Valuable Approach to Add to the Evaluator’s ‘Toolbox’? Lessons from Recent Applications,
- IFAD Evaluation manual (2nd ed.),
- A visual introduction to machine learning,
- Hivos ToC Guidelines: THEORY OF CHANGE THINKING IN PRACTICE – A stepwise approach,
- Evaluation in the Extreme: Research, Impact and Politics in Violently Divided Societies,
- The sustainable development goals as a network of targets,
- Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work,
- How Useful Are RCTs in Evaluating Transparency and Accountability Projects ?,
- Social Network Analysis for [M&E of] Program Implementation,
- The median impact narrative,
- What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?,
- Participatory Approaches (to impact evaluation – a pluralist view),
- The use of Data Envelopment Analysis to calculate priority scores in needs assessments,
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis – A Rigorous Qualitative Method for Assessing Impact,
- Category refinement in humanitarian needs assessments,
- Impact Evaluation: A Guide for Commissioners and Managers,
- Beneficiary Feedback in Evaluation,
- Straws-in-the-wind, Hoops and Smoking Guns: What can Process Tracing Offer to Impact Evaluation?,
- Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?,
- Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool,
- How to interpret P values, according to xkcd :-),
- THE FUTURE OF EVALUATION: 10 PREDICTIONS (& you can add your votes),
- How Systematic Is That Systematic Review? The Case of Improving Learning Outcomes,
- The Checklist: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?,
- Predictive Analytics and Data Mining: Concepts and Practice with RapidMiner,
- Anecdote Circles: Monitoring Change in Market Systems Through Storytelling,
- DIGITAL HUMANITARIANS: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response,
- Better Value for Money. An organising framework for management and measurement of VFM indicators,
- MAKING EVALUATION SENSITIVE TO GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS Different approaches,
- Process evaluation of complex interventions. UK Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance,
- Looking for case studies of beneficiary feedback in evaluation,
- The use of Rasch scales in monitoring, gender analysis and attitude measurement,
- Evidence of the Hawthorne effect – worth knowing about and watching out for,
- Why evaluations fail: The importance of good monitoring (DCED, 2014),
- DCED publications on M&E, M&E audits and the effectiveness of M&E standards,
- Reframing the evidence debates: a view from the media for development sector,
- CDI conference proceedings: Improving the use of M&E processes and findings,
- Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – 9 new articles in pdfs,
- Review of evaluation approaches and methods for interventions related to violence against women and girls (VAWG),
- Incorporating people’s values in development: weighting alternatives,
- Composite measures of local disaster impact – Lessons from Typhoon Yolanda, Philippines,
- How Shortcuts Cut Us Short: Cognitive Traps in Philanthropic Decision Making,
- Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide,
- Working with messy data sets? Two useful and free tools,
- “Quality evidence for policymaking. I’ll believe it when I see the replication”,
- DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE AND RANDOMISED MEDIA ASSISTANCE,
- Independent Commission for Aid Impact publishes report on “How DFID Learns”,
- Rapid Review of Embedding Evaluation in UK Department for International Development,
- Do you have a Data Management Plan?,
- Reflections on research processes in a development NGO: FIVDB’s survey in 2013 of the change in household conditions and of the effect of livelihood trainings,
- Meta-evaluation of USAID’s Evaluations: 2009-2012,
- LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings,
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) An application to compare national REDD+ policy processes,
- Twelve reasons why climate change adaptation M&E is challenging,
- Monitoring and evaluating civil society partnerships,
- The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age,
- Aid on the Edge of Chaos…,
- Learning about Measuring Advocacy and Policy Change: Are Baselines always Feasible and Desirable?,
- THE CHALLENGES OF EVIDENCE,
- Learning about Theories of Change for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Research Uptake,
- Evidence-Based Policy and Systemic Change: Conflicting Trends?,
- Utilization Focused Evaluation A primer for evaluators,
- Rapid needs assessments: Severity and priority measures,
- Planning Evaluability Assessments: A Synthesis of the Literature with Recommendations,
- Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies: Politics, Ethics and Methods,
- How to do a rigorous, evidence – focused literature review in international development,
- How should we understand “clinical equipoise” when doing RCTs in development?,
- Impact evaluation of natural resource management research programs: a broader view,
- The Impact and Effectiveness of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives,
- How Feedback Loops Can Improve Aid (and Maybe Governance),
- The Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluation,
- Monitoring the composition and evolution of the research networks of the CGIAR Research Program (RTB),
- Participatory Impact Assessment (1998),
- ICAI Year 4 Workplan Consultation opens today,
- Who’s Afraid of Administrative Data? Why administrative data can be faster, cheaper and sometimes better,
- A guide for planning and strategy development in the face of complexity,
- Human Rights and Impact Assessment,
- Evaluation of Humanitarian Action: A Pilot Guide,
- Data preparation and analysis in rapid needs assessments,
- IFAD’s independent evaluation ratings database,
- Perception surveys in fragile and conflict affected states,
- Evaluating simple interventions that turn out to be not so simple,
- Comic book Theories of Change?,
- “Hey Jude” Theory of Change…,
- Impact Evaluation Toolkit: Measuring the Impact of Results Based Financing on Maternal and Child Health,
- Oxfam study of MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING IN NGO ADVOCACY,
- Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education,
- 3ie Public Lecture: What evidence based development has to learn from evidence based medicine? What we have learned from 3ie’s experience in evidence based development,
- The (endangered) art of monitoring in development programmes,
- Sustainable development: A review of monitoring initiatives in agriculture,
- Improving the Evaluability of INGO Empowerment and Accountability Programmes,
- Livestreaming of the Impact, Innovation & Learning conference, 26-27 March 2013,
- Evaluability – is it relevant to EBRD? (and others),
- EvalPartners International Forum on Civil Society’s Evaluation Capacities (report on),
- Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis,
- Collaborative Evaluations Step by Step,
- What counts as good evidence?,
- The impact of statistics classes ;-),
- Duggan & Bush on Evaluation in Settings Affected by Violent Conflict: What Difference Does Context Make?,
- “Big Data for Development: Opportunities & Challenges”,
- PROCESS TRACING: Oxfam’s Draft Protocol,
- Do we need more attention to monitoring relative to evaluation?,
- Quality in policy impact evaluation: understanding the effects of policy from other influences,
- Dealing with complexity through “actor-focused” Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PME),
- Pan Africa-Asia Results-Based M&E Forum, Bangkok, Nov 2012 – Presentations now available,
- Papers and discussion on the evaluation of climate change mitigation,
- Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility: Improving Learning for Results,
- DRAFT DFID Evaluation Policy – Learning What Works to Improve Lives,
- Making causal claims,
- Evaluating the impact of knowledge brokering work,
- Guidance for designing, monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding projects: using theories of change,
- Impact Evaluation: A Discussion Paper for AusAID Practitioners,
- Oxfam GB’s new Global Performance Framework + their Effectiveness Review reports,
- Tools and Methods for Evaluating the Efficiency of Development Interventions,
- European Evaluation Society Conference Helsinki, 1-5 October, 2012 – docs available,
- Learning about Gender Equality,
- The precarious nature of knowledge – a lesson that we have not yet learned?,
- Review of the use of ‘Theory of Change’ in International Development,
- UNDERSTANDING ‘THEORY OF CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A REVIEW OF EXISTING KNOWLEDGE,
- UK centre of excellence for evaluation of international development,
- DFID How To Note: Reviewing and Scoring Projects Introduction,
- Models of Causality and Causal Inference,
- DFID’s Approach to Impact Evaluation – Part I,
- AusAID: Establishment of Independent Evaluation Committee,
- Addressing attribution of cause and effect in small n impact evaluations: towards an integrated framework,
- Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials,
- BROADENING THE RANGE OF DESIGNS AND METHODS FOR IMPACT EVALUATIONS,
- MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe?,
- Where do European Institutions rank on donor quality?,
- LINKING MONITORING AND EVALUATION TO IMPACT EVALUATION,
- Analytic Rigour in Information Analysis – Lessons from the intelligence community?,
- THEORY OF CHANGE REVIEW – A report commissioned by Comic Relief,
- Peacebuilding with impact: Defining Theories of Change,
- Assessing the immediate impact of impact studies – using an online survey,
- Evaluating the Evaluators: Some Lessons from a Recent World Bank Self-Evaluation,
- BEHIND THE SCENES: MANAGING AND CONDUCTING LARGE SCALE IMPACT EVALUATIONS IN COLOMBIA,
- Dealing with complexity through Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation,
- World Bank – Raising the Bar on Transparency, Accountability and Openness,
- Making systematic reviews work for international development research,
- New journal on Systematic Reviews,
- Randomised controlled trial testing the effects of transparency on health care in Uganda,
- 3ie’s proposes a Commitment to Evaluation Indicator (c2e),
- 3ie and the Funding of Impact Evaluations,
- RealWorld Evaluation Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints,
- First reports published by UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact,
- The Impact of Economics Blogs,
- THE EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE: NORMATIVE PRESCRIPTIONS VS. EMPIRICAL RESULTS,
- Commons Select Committee to Scrutinise the DFID’s Annual Report & Resource Accounts,
- Measuring Impact on the Immeasurable? Methodological Challenges in Evaluating Democracy and Governance Aid,
- Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: A list,
- Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution and Beyond.,
- Can we obtain the required rigour without randomisation? Oxfam GB’s non-experimental Global Performance Framework,
- Evaluation and Assessment of Poverty and Conflict Interventions (EAPC),
- Systematic review: What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people?,
- The evaluation of peacebuilding: Four new reports,
- Comic: The problem with averaging star ratings,
- Assessing the impact of blogs: Some evidence and analysis,
- Measuring Impact: Lessons from the MCC for the Broader Impact Evaluation Community,
- The Canadian M&E System: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Development,
- The Evaluation of the Paris Declaration: Phase II Report,
- Measuring Results: A GSDRC Topic Guide,
- RCTs for empowerment and accountability programmes,
- Cultural cognition and the problem of science communication,
- A comic’al perspective on methodology issues,
- DPC Policy Discussion Paper: Evaluating Influencing Strategies and Interventions,
- Micro-Methods in Evaluating Governance Interventions,
- Improving Peacebuilding Evaluation A Whole-of-Field Approach,
- Connecting communities? A review of World Vision’s use of MSC,
- Walking the talk: the need for a trial registry for development interventions,
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Impact Evaluation and Measuring Results,
- “Intelligence is about creating and adjusting stories”,
- Evidence of the effectiveness of evidence?,
- Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement – Rapid Onset Natural Disasters,
- A CAN OF WORMS? IMPLICATIONS OF RIGOROUS IMPACT EVALUATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES,
- Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation,
- Theory of Change: A thinking and action approach to navigate in the complexity of social change processes,
- Capturing Change in Women’s Realities A Critical Overview of Current M&E Frameworks and Approaches,
- GTZ/BMZ Evaluation and Systems Conference papers,
- UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact – Work Plan,
- WRITING TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR AN EVALUATION: A HOW-TO GUIDE,
- Towards a Plurality of Methods in Project Evaluation: A Contextualised Approach to Understanding Impact Trajectories and Efficacy,
- Promoting Voice and Choice: Exploring Innovations in Australian NGOAccountability for Development Effectiveness,
- Learning how to learn: eight lessons for impact evaluations that make a difference,
- NAO report: DFID Financial Management Report,
- Sound expectations: from impact evaluations to policy change,
- IMPACT AND AID EFFECTIVENESS: Mapping the Issues and their Consequences,
- Behavioral economics and randomized trials: trumpeted, attacked and parried,
- Common Needs Assessments and humanitarian action,
- Collective Impact,
- Critical Study Of The Logical Framework Approach In The Basque Country,
- Beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Changing norms and meeting targets,
- USAID Evaluation Policy,
- The future of UK aid: Changing lives, delivering results: our plans to help the world’s poorest people,
- Participatory Impact Assessment: A guide for practitioners,
- Five challenges facing impact evaluation,
- Eight lessons from three years working on transparency,
- Learners, practitioners and teachers Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy inluence,
- Using stories to increase sales at Pfizer,
- Nature Editorial: To ensure their results are reproducible, analysts should show their workings.,
- Social assessment of conservation initiatives: A review of rapid methodologies,
- Learning in Development,
- Joint Humanitarian Impact Evaluation: Report on consultations,
- A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence,
- The Evaluation of Storytelling as a Peace-building Methodology,
- Policy Practice Brief 6 – What Makes A Good Governance Indicator?,
- 2010 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations,
- “The Truth Wears Off” & “More Thoughts on the Decline Effect”,
- The CES Learning and Innovation Prize is open for entries.,
- What Accountability Pressures do MPs in Africa Face and How Do They Respond? Evidence from Ghana,
- Monitoring and Evaluating Civil Service Performance,
- Value for Money: How are other donors approaching ‘value for money’ in their aid programming?,
- Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the welfare impact of policy-orientated research in agriculture,
- Alain de Botton, on the ambivalence of “Success”,
- Review of Impact and Effectiveness of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives,
- House of Commons International Development Committee interviews DFID,
- AusAID media release: Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness,
- Current discussions on aid effectiveness: An ad hoc list,
- Indices, Benchmarks, and Indicators: Planning and Evaluating Human Rights Dialogues,
- Helpdesk Research Report: Participatory M&E and Beneficiary Feedback,
- Aid Transparency Assessment,
- AusAID-DFID-3ie call for Systematic Reviews,
- When is the rigorous impact evaluation of development projects a luxury, and when is it a necessity?,
- The Katine Challenge: How to analyse 540+ stories about a rural development project,
- Do we need a Minimum Level of Failure (MLF)?,
- The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development,
- The Big Push Back (and push forward),
- “Instruments, Randomization and Learning about Development”,
- “Britons think development aid for poor countries is wasted”,
- Stories from Aidland: Dancing to the Tune,
- DFID Draft Structural Reform Plan July 2010,
- US Office of Management and Budget: Increased emphasis on Program Evaluations,
- Measuring Up: HIV-related advocacy evaluation training pack (draft),
- Designing Initiative Evaluation A Systems-oriented Framework for Evaluating Social Change Efforts,
- RESOURCE PACK ON SYSTEMATIZATION OF EXPERIENCES,
- Critique of Governance Assessment Applications,
- Narrative Research,
- Listen First: a pilot system for managing downward accountability in NGOs,
- The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance,
- Smart Tools: For evaluating information projects, products and services,
- EVALUATING DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION: SUMMARY OF KEY NORMS AND STANDARDS. SECOND EDITION,
- DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS – A STUDY OF NETWORK MEMBERS,
- Measuring Empowerment? Ask Them,
- Next Generation Network Evaluation,
- Beyond Logframe: Using Systems Concepts in Evaluation,
- “Full transparency and new independent watchdog will give UK taxpayers value for money in aid”,
- “Impact 2.0: Collaborative technologies connecting research and policy”,
- NETWORKING: CURRENT MODALITIES AND FUTURE SCENARIOS,
- Knowledge Management in an Organization of the Poor,
- PAQI How-to-do-it Annex,
- New INTRAC publications on M&E,
- Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government.,
- The Use of Social Network Analysis Tools in the Evaluation of Social Change Communications,
- Metaevaluation revisited, by Michael Scriven,
- Social Network Analysis And the Evaluation of Leadership Networks,
- Stakeholder analysis and social network analysis in natural resource management,
- What should be found within an M&E framework / plan?,
- Prediction Matrices,
- Consultation Draft: “Better information: better aid” Accra, August 2008 ,
- Participatory Impact Assessment: a Guide for Practitioners,
- Impact assessment: Drivers, dilemmas and deliberations,
- Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management,
- Monday Developments issue on NGO accountability,
- The Social Framework as an alternative to the Logical Framework,
- Pre-2008 contents of the MandE NEWS website (part 2),
- VisuaLyzer software: for visualising and analysing networks,
- Networks and evaluation,
- Predicting the achievements of the Katine project,
- Uploaded files: A miscellanous list,
- A digression on complexity and networks…,
- Rick Davies’ comments posted on other blogs and websites,
- Making government budgets more accessible and equitable,
- Results Based Management (RBM): A list of resources,
- Monitoring government policies A toolkit for civil society organisations in Africa,
Conferences
- The Fallacy of AI Functionality,
- Making impact evaluation matter: Better evidence for effective policies and programmes,
- International Energy Policies & Programmes Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC) conference 9-11 September 2014,
- Conference: Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity and Change,
- DCED Global Seminar on Results Measurement 24-26 March 2014, Bangkok,
- AEA Conference: Evaluation in Complex Ecologies,
- Conference: Measuring Impact of Higher Education for Development,
- Conference: Evaluation in a Complex World -Balancing Theory and Practice,
- Conference about “The Future of Evaluation in Modern Societies”, Germany.,
- UKES CONFERENCE 2012 Evaluation for results: What counts? Who stands to gain? How is it done?,
- Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation ‘as if Politics Mattered’,,
- The Oslo Governance Forum – Governance Assessments for Social Accountability,
- 2012 European Evaluation Society Conference in Helsinki,
- Conference on ICT for Monitoring & Evaluation,
- Australasian Evaluation Society 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence,
- International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities.,
- 10th European Evaluation Society Biennial Conference, Helsinki, Oct 2012,
- SLEvaluationAssoc 2011 International Conference in Colombo,
- INTRAC, PSO & PRIA Monitoring and Evaluation Conference,
- Call for Abstracts – Forthcoming Sri Lankan Evaluation Association Conference June 6 -10, 2011,
- Impact Evaluation Conference: “Mind the Gap”: From Evidence to Impact,
- Results, risk assessment and management in development cooperation – Towards a Common Approach,
- Seminar: Complexity-oriented Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): from alternative to mainstream?,
- Conference: Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values,
- Conference: Systemic Approaches in Evaluation,
- Measuring Results for Dutch Development Aid, Approaches and Future Directions,
- UK Evaluation Society 2010 Annual Evaluation Conference,
- The American Evaluation Association annual conference: Evaluation Quality,
- The Global Evaluation Conclave: Making Evaluation matter,
- VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON METHODOLOGY IN PROGRAMME EVALUATION,
- Fit for the Future Conference: Measuring Impact, Communicating Results,
- 2010 ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATORS NETWORKING FORUM,
- Conference: “Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity.”,
- European Evaluation Society Conference – Evaluation in the Public Interest – Participation, Politics and Policy,
- American Evaluation Association – Call for Proposals,
- Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2009: Presentations available,
- The UK Evaluation Society Conference 2009,
- The 9th European Evaluation Society International Conference,
- The Child Rights in Practice: Measuring our Impact conference,
- Measuring Change II: Expanding Knowledge on Monitoring and Evaluation in Media Development,
- American Evaluation Association (AEA) Annual Conference,
- Pan African Monitoring and Evaluation Conference,
- Outcomes monitoring and IT: Finding the best solution,
- EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009: Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development (16-18 October 2009),
- Results of the CONFERENCE ON IMPACT EVALUATION HELD IN CAIRO 29 MARCH – 2 APRIL,
- IPEN Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine,
- Valuing impact: Building an Association of Nonprofit Analysts,
- 2009 Measuring Effectiveness conference – Melbourne,
- Symposium: “Getting to Results: Evaluation Capacity Building and Development”,
- INVITATION: Building the Evidence to Reduce Poverty – launch of the public consultation on DFID’s new Evaluation Policy,
- PERSPECTIVES ON IMPACT EVALUATION: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness,
- IPEN Conference on “Ensuring effective performance through evaluation”,
- Measuring Effectiveness – Participation, Empowerment and Downward Accountability,
- 4th UK Social Networks conference,
- AfrEA-NONIE-3ie International Conference on Impact Evaluation for Development Effectiveness,
- Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness,
- Conference: What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small,
- Conference: EVALUATING THE COMPLEX,
- Conference: Policy and programme evaluation in Europe: Cultures and prospects,
- Symposium: Policy and Programme Evaluation in Europe : cultures and prospects,
- 3rd annual Measuring Effectiveness conference:’Participation, Empowerment and Downward Accountability’.,
- UKES Annual Conference 2008, October 2008,
- The European Evaluation Society Conference, Lisbon 2008,
- The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF 3),
- Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making,
- Conference: Evaluation 2008 – Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice,
Training
- Free relevant well organised online courses: Statistics, Model Thinking and others,
- International Summer School on Evaluation Research,
- trainings in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action,
- The Implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Where do We Stand and How to Move Forward?,
- International Development Evaluation: Foundations and Practices,
- INTRAC courses on M&E in 2010,
- Training on M&E in South Africa in 2010,
- The 2010 International Program for Development Evaluation Training,
- Training: Logical Framework Analysis for Programme & Project Planning,
- *Outcome Mapping Training in Switzerland – June 28 to July 2, 2010,
- Evaluation in Conflict Prone Settings: Londonderry, June 2010,
- Training: “Impact Oriented Project Planning and Monitoring”,
- “Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation with Special Application to Population and Health”,
- Training: MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TECHNIQUE (Indonesia),
- Most Significant Change Training in Melbourne 1-2 December,
- Executive education course, “Evaluating Social Programs” in Santiago, Chile,
- Training: Evaluation of Humanitarian Action,
- Six courses on program evaluation topics,
- trainings in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action,
- 5-day Outcome Mapping Training and Workshop in Switzerland,
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Programmes University of Pretoria,
- Pilot training course on the DCED Standard for results measurement,
- Training in the Most Significant Change Evaluation Technique (Cardiff, UK),
- International Course on Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation – Navigating and Managing for Impact,
- Evaluation of Conflict Sensibility, Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Programmes,
- Vancouver Outcome Mapping Training Workshop – September 21-24,
- Training in Most Significant Change Technique (MSC) in Oxford, UK,
- International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET),
- Training: Monitoring and Evaluation for Results,
- Training: Monitoring and Evaluation for Results,
- Training in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action,
- Training: Foundations of Monitoring and Evaluation,
- On-line training in Monitoring and Evaluation using Results Based Project Management,
- Summer School On Monitoring And Evaluation Of International Programmes And Public Policies,
- PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION WORKSHOP,
- Results-based Management, Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology Workshop,
- International Course on ‘Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation. Managing and Learning for Impact”,
- TrainEval – Training for Evaluation in Development, 3rd course in March-July 2009,
- Ipact at the University of Aberdeen: Course on monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs (in Tanzania),
- Ipact at the University of Aberdeen: Course on monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs (in Burkina Faso),
- Clear Horizon: Training events in Melbourne,
- Clear Horizon: Training events in Melbourne,
- Clear Horizon: Training events in Melbourne and Jogjakarta,
- IMA International training events: Brighton, UK,
- IMA International training events: Brighton, UK,
- IMA International training events: Capetown, South Africa,
- IMA International training events: Bangkok, Thailand,
- IMA International training events: Brighton, UK,
- EASY-ECO Saarland Training on Evaluation of Sustainability,
- Online Training: Introduction to Social Audit,
- Michael Scriven teaches “An Introduction to Evaluation” online,
- Upcoming training opportunities with Jess Dart of Clear Horizon,
- Monitoring and Evaluation for Results – Vienna, Austria,
- Evaluation of Humanitarian Action with ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action),
- Training in Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Programmes,
- Training on Evaluation of Sustainability, by EASY-ECO Saarland,
- M&E training to be provided by Development Alternatives, India,
- Quality COMPAS and Dynamic COMPAS course organized by Groupe URD at its head office,
- M&E training to be provided by Mosaic,
- M&E training to be provided by MDF-ESA,
- M&E training to be provided by IMA International,
- Training: Evaluating the quality of humanitarian projects,
- The May 2008 Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School,
- next Outcome Mapping training workshop in Europe,
- Developing MSC training materials…,
- Training providers,
Types of Events
- INTRAC M&E Workshop: Practical Responses to Current Monitoring and Evaluation Debates,
- “Evaluation and Inequality: Moving Beyond the Discussion of Poverty” International Development Evaluation Association Global Assembly,
- 27 Oct Symposium: NGO-IDEAs – grassroots based impact monitoring,
- Workshop: Case Studies in Development Evaluation: Validity, Generalisation and Learning,
- DFID&UKES Workshop on Development and Evaluation: Practical Ways Forward.,
- ISO International Workshop Agreement (IWA) on Evaluation Capacity Development,
- Randomised controlled trials, mixed methods and policy influence in international development – Symposium,
- ‘Realist evaluation – understanding how programs work in their context’; An expert seminar with Dr. Gill Westhorp; Wageningen, the Netherlands; 29-03-2011,
- Expert seminar with Dr MQ Patton ‘Developmental evaluation’,
- INTRAC workshop: Accountability without Impact?,
- Using impact evaluation to improve development,
- Workshop: Understanding the effects of development interventions: Theory-based impact evaluation in practice.,
- Workshop: Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System,
- International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) First Annual Conference,
- BOND Quality Group meeting: Managing partnerships,
- Evaluation in the UK third sector: current issues, future challenges,
- Online workshop: Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation,
- BOND Quality Group – Debate on logframes,
- Impact Evaluation of Population, Health and Nutrition Programs,
- A Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs,
- a one day event designed to explore impact assessment …,
- Live webcast event on Real World Evaluation with Jim Rugh and Michael Bamberger,
- Webcast: STRENGTHENING COUNTRY-LED M&E SYSTEMS,
- Meeting: Complexity and evaluation,
- Complexity in Aid Workshop series: Strategy in a complex world,
- The MandE NEWS email list now has 2000+ members!,
- Annual Praxis Commune on Participatory Development,
- Event: Navigating Complexity – An innovation dialogue,
- Two MSC workshops: for first time and experienced users,
- ODI Seminar: Exploring the Science of Complexity in Aid Policy and Practice,
- Event: Does UK development aid work?,
- Workshop: Standards & Practices in Evaluating Development,
Consultations
- ICAI Seeks Views on Revised Evaluation Framework,
- Open consultation Triennial review of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI),
- AusAID’s Information Publication Scheme: Draft Plan & Consultation,
- DfID Seeks Suggestions for Implementing Aid Transparency Initiative,
- New DFID policy on Evaluation,
- ParEvo – a web assisted participatory scenario planning process,
Lists of sources re ...
- Participatory Modelling: Beginnings of a list,
- Dealing with missing data: A list,
- Livelihoods Monitoring and Evaluation: A Rapid Desk Based Study,
- A list of M&E training providers,
- Value for money: A list,
- Updated MSC bibliography,
- Social Network Analysis software: A list,
- Social Network Analysis and Evaluation: A List,
- The Logical Framework: A list of useful documents,
- M&E blogs: A List,
Debate
- Evaluating the impact of aid to Africa: lessons from the Millennium Villages,
- The Big Push forward: The Australian Debate (Oct 2011),
- Is Australian Aid Fair Dinkum? A Forum On The Independent Review Of Aid Effectiveness,
- A results take-over of aid effectiveness? How to balance multiple or competing calls for more accountability,
Books
- Systems Mapping: How to build and use causal models of systems,
- “Doing Good Better” by William Macaskill,
- Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis,
- “The Checklist Manifesto”, another perspective on managing the problem of extreme complexity,
- Calling Bullshit: THE ART OF SKEPTICISM IN A DATA-DRIVEN WORLD,
- Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned,
- Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future,
- The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World,
- Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work,
- THE MODEL THINKER What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You,
- Reflecting the Past, Shaping the Future: Making AI Work for International Development,
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,
- The Politics of Evidence: From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence,
- OPM’s approach to assessing Value for Money,
- Bit by Bit Social Research in the Digital Age,
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.,
- Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions A Practical Guide,
- The Tyranny of Metrics,
- Analyzing Social Networks,
- The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science,
- Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms,
- How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business [and elsewhere],
- Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social Development: Interpretive and Social Development Perspectives,
- Feminist Evaluation & Research: Theory & Practice,
- The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto,
- Who Counts? The power of participatory statistics,
- Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units,
- A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences,
- On prediction, Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise”,
- Approches et pratiques en évaluation de programmes,
- Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation,
- What Causes What & Hypothesis testing: Truth and Evidence,
- Integrated Monitoring: A Practical Manual for Organisations That Want to Achieve Results,
- Magenta Book – HM Treasury guidance on evaluation for Central Government (UK),
- An introduction to systematic reviews,
- Social Psychology and Evaluation,
- Diversity and Complexity,
Journal article
- Simple but not simplistic: Findings from a theory-driven retrospective evaluation of a small projects program,
- Techniques to Identify Themes (in text/interview data),
- An Institutional View of Algorithmic Impact Assessments,
- Five ways to ensure that models serve society: A manifesto,
- Predict science to improve science,
- Nature editorial: “Tell it like it is”,
- Mental models for conservation research and practice,
- Computational Modelling of Public Policy: Reflections on Practice,
- Wiki Surveys: Open and Quantifiable Social Data Collection,
- Case-Selection [for case studies]: A Diversity of Methods and Criteria,
- Multiple Pathways to Policy Impact: Testing an Uptake Theory with QCA,
- Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable,
- Special Issue on Systematic Reviews – J. of Development Effectiveness,
- A move to more systematic and transparent approaches in qualitative evidence synthesis,
- New Directions for Evaluation: Promoting Valuation in the Public Interest: Informing Policies for Judging Value in Evaluation,
- “Six Years of Lessons Learned in Monitoring and Evaluating Online Discussion Forums”,
- What shapes research impact on policy?,
Unpublished paper
- Process Tracing as a Practical Evaluation Method: Comparative Learning from Six Evaluations,
- The impact of impact evaluation,
- Bayesian belief networks – Their use in humanitarian scenarios An invitation to explorers,
- Representing Theories of Change: Technical Challenges with Evaluation Consequences,
- Searching for Success: A Mixed Methods Approach to Identifying and Examining Positive Outliers in Development Outcomes,
- Where there is no single Theory of Change: The uses of Decision Tree models,