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- March 14 Findings and recommendations from the Evaluation Methods Advisory Panel at WFP (Uncategorized)
- March 13 Simple but not simplistic: Findings from a theory-driven retrospective evaluation of a small projects program (Journal article, Process tracing, Qualitative methods)
- December 18 Algorithmic Impact Assessment – Three+ useful publications by Data & Society (Uncategorized)
- October 13 Releasing the power of digital data for development. A guide to new opportunities (Uncategorized)
- September 27 Free Coursera online course: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) (Qualitative methods, Training, Video)
- March 25 Process Tracing as a Practical Evaluation Method: Comparative Learning from Six Evaluations (Unpublished paper)
- February 4 A broken system – why literature searching needs a FAIR revolution (Blog, Journal article)
- September 24 Bayesian belief networks – Their use in humanitarian scenarios An invitation to explorers (Unpublished paper)
- September 1 Representing Theories of Change: Technical Challenges with Evaluation Consequences (Unpublished paper)
- July 31 Participatory approaches to the development of a Theory of Change: Beginnings of a list (Participatory ToC development)
- June 12 Participatory Modelling: Beginnings of a list (Lists of sources re ..., Participatory Modelling)
- February 27 Wiki Surveys: Open and Quantifiable Social Data Collection (Journal article, Video, Website)
- February 10 Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. (Books)
- November 18 PRISM: TOOLKIT FOR EVALUATING THE OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS ?OF SMALL/MEDIUM-SIZED CONSERVATION PROJECTS (Uncategorized)
- January 24 Integrating Big Data into the Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes (Uncategorized)
- February 9 Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change: a guide for facilitators (Uncategorized)
- December 4 Hivos ToC Guidelines: THEORY OF CHANGE THINKING IN PRACTICE – A stepwise approach (Uncategorized)
- November 25 Evaluation in the Extreme: Research, Impact and Politics in Violently Divided Societies (Uncategorized)
- September 24 How Useful Are RCTs in Evaluating Transparency and Accountability Projects ? (Uncategorized)
- August 19 What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance? (Uncategorized)
- August 10 The use of Data Envelopment Analysis to calculate priority scores in needs assessments (Uncategorized)
- June 6 Qualitative Comparative Analysis – A Rigorous Qualitative Method for Assessing Impact (Uncategorized)
- April 25 Straws-in-the-wind, Hoops and Smoking Guns: What can Process Tracing Offer to Impact Evaluation? (Uncategorized)
- March 3 How Systematic Is That Systematic Review? The Case of Improving Learning Outcomes (Uncategorized)
- January 16 Research on the use and influence of evaluations: The beginnings of a list (Evaluation Use, Lists of sources re ...)
- December 25 The Checklist: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? (Uncategorized)
- December 20 Predictive Analytics and Data Mining: Concepts and Practice with RapidMiner (Uncategorized)
- December 19 Anecdote Circles: Monitoring Change in Market Systems Through Storytelling (Uncategorized)
- December 19 DIGITAL HUMANITARIANS: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response (Uncategorized)
- November 26 Better Value for Money. An organising framework for management and measurement of VFM indicators (Uncategorized)
- November 26 MAKING EVALUATION SENSITIVE TO GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS Different approaches (Uncategorized)
- November 19 Livelihoods Monitoring and Evaluation: A Rapid Desk Based Study (Lists of sources re ..., Livelihoods)
- November 10 Process evaluation of complex interventions. UK Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance (Uncategorized)
- October 25 The use of Rasch scales in monitoring, gender analysis and attitude measurement (Uncategorized)
- October 16 Evidence of the Hawthorne effect – worth knowing about and watching out for (Uncategorized)
- September 17 DCED publications on M&E, M&E audits and the effectiveness of M&E standards (Uncategorized)
- August 9 Reframing the evidence debates: a view from the media for development sector (Uncategorized)
- June 2 Composite measures of local disaster impact – Lessons from Typhoon Yolanda, Philippines (Uncategorized)
- May 27 Making impact evaluation matter: Better evidence for effective policies and programmes (Conferences, Types of Events)
- May 27 International Energy Policies & Programmes Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC) conference 9-11 September 2014 (Conferences, Types of Events)
- April 14 “Quality evidence for policymaking. I’ll believe it when I see the replication” (Uncategorized)
- March 21 Conference: Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity and Change (Conferences)
- March 17 Rapid Review of Embedding Evaluation in UK Department for International Development (Uncategorized)
- January 31 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) An application to compare national REDD+ policy processes (Uncategorized)
- January 6 DCED Global Seminar on Results Measurement 24-26 March 2014, Bangkok (Conferences, Types of Events)
- December 6 Learning about Measuring Advocacy and Policy Change: Are Baselines always Feasible and Desirable? (Uncategorized)
- November 29 Learning about Theories of Change for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Research Uptake (Uncategorized)
- October 7 Planning Evaluability Assessments: A Synthesis of the Literature with Recommendations (Uncategorized)
- September 24 Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies: Politics, Ethics and Methods (Uncategorized)
- September 20 How to do a rigorous, evidence – focused literature review in international development (Uncategorized)
- September 2 How should we understand “clinical equipoise” when doing RCTs in development? (Uncategorized)
- August 21 Impact evaluation of natural resource management research programs: a broader view (Uncategorized)
- August 14 The Impact and Effectiveness of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (Uncategorized)
- August 5 INTRAC M&E Workshop: Practical Responses to Current Monitoring and Evaluation Debates (Types of Events, Workshops)
- May 10 US Govt Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information (Protected, Uncategorized)
- April 29 AEA resources on Social Network Analysis and Evaluation (Social Network Analysis & Evaluation, Website)
- April 16 Open consultation Triennial review of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) (Consultations)
- April 2 Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education (Uncategorized)
- March 20 Improving the Evaluability of INGO Empowerment and Accountability Programmes (Uncategorized)
- March 20 Livestreaming of the Impact, Innovation & Learning conference, 26-27 March 2013 (Uncategorized)
- March 12 EvalPartners International Forum on Civil Society’s Evaluation Capacities (report on) (Uncategorized)
- March 4 Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Uncategorized)
- February 9 Duggan & Bush on Evaluation in Settings Affected by Violent Conflict: What Difference Does Context Make? (Uncategorized)
- January 22 Quality in policy impact evaluation: understanding the effects of policy from other influences (Uncategorized)
- December 14 Dealing with complexity through “actor-focused” Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PME) (Uncategorized)
- December 4 Pan Africa-Asia Results-Based M&E Forum, Bangkok, Nov 2012 – Presentations now available (Uncategorized)
- November 26 Where there is no single Theory of Change: The uses of Decision Tree models (Unpublished paper)
- November 13 Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility: Improving Learning for Results (Uncategorized)
- October 24 Free relevant well organised online courses: Statistics, Model Thinking and others (Training, Uncategorized)
- October 18 Guidance for designing, monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding projects: using theories of change (Uncategorized)
- October 10 Oxfam GB’s new Global Performance Framework + their Effectiveness Review reports (Uncategorized)
- October 9 Special Issue on Systematic Reviews – J. of Development Effectiveness (Journal article, Uncategorized)
- October 8 Tools and Methods for Evaluating the Efficiency of Development Interventions (Uncategorized)
- October 3 European Evaluation Society Conference Helsinki, 1-5 October, 2012 – docs available (Uncategorized)
- September 15 The precarious nature of knowledge – a lesson that we have not yet learned? (Uncategorized)
- August 31 A move to more systematic and transparent approaches in qualitative evidence synthesis (Journal article)
- August 1 UNDERSTANDING ‘THEORY OF CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A REVIEW OF EXISTING KNOWLEDGE (Uncategorized)
- June 20 Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials (Uncategorized)
- June 13 Evaluating the impact of aid to Africa: lessons from the Millennium Villages (Debate, Types of Events)
- March 29 Analytic Rigour in Information Analysis – Lessons from the intelligence community? (Uncategorized)
- February 28 Assessing the immediate impact of impact studies – using an online survey (Uncategorized)
- February 27 “Six Years of Lessons Learned in Monitoring and Evaluating Online Discussion Forums” (Journal article)
- February 23 Evaluating the Evaluators: Some Lessons from a Recent World Bank Self-Evaluation (Uncategorized)
- February 21 BEHIND THE SCENES: MANAGING AND CONDUCTING LARGE SCALE IMPACT EVALUATIONS IN COLOMBIA (Uncategorized)
- February 17 World Bank – Raising the Bar on Transparency, Accountability and Openness (Uncategorized)
- February 16 Conference: Measuring Impact of Higher Education for Development (Conferences, Types of Events)
- February 13 Conference: Evaluation in a Complex World -Balancing Theory and Practice (Conferences, Types of Events)
- January 18 Randomised controlled trial testing the effects of transparency on health care in Uganda (Uncategorized)
- January 12 Conference about “The Future of Evaluation in Modern Societies”, Germany. (Conferences, Types of Events)
- January 11 UKES CONFERENCE 2012 Evaluation for results: What counts? Who stands to gain? How is it done? (Conferences, Types of Events)
- December 26 RealWorld Evaluation Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints (Uncategorized)
- October 30 THE EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE: NORMATIVE PRESCRIPTIONS VS. EMPIRICAL RESULTS (Uncategorized)
- October 18 27 Oct Symposium: NGO-IDEAs – grassroots based impact monitoring (Types of Events, Workshops)
- September 22 Workshop: Case Studies in Development Evaluation: Validity, Generalisation and Learning (Types of Events, Workshops)
- September 19 Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
- September 19 Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation ‘as if Politics Mattered’, (Conferences, Types of Events)
- September 14 Commons Select Committee to Scrutinise the DFID’s Annual Report & Resource Accounts (Uncategorized)
- September 13 The Oslo Governance Forum – Governance Assessments for Social Accountability (Conferences, Types of Events)
- September 7 Measuring Impact on the Immeasurable? Methodological Challenges in Evaluating Democracy and Governance Aid (Uncategorized)
- September 5 Is Australian Aid Fair Dinkum? A Forum On The Independent Review Of Aid Effectiveness (Debate, Types of Events)
- August 30 DFID&UKES Workshop on Development and Evaluation: Practical Ways Forward. (Types of Events, Workshops)
- August 21 Systematic review: What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? (Uncategorized)
- August 11 Measuring Impact: Lessons from the MCC for the Broader Impact Evaluation Community (Uncategorized)
- August 9 Australasian Evaluation Society 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence (Conferences, Types of Events)
- July 27 DPC Policy Discussion Paper: Evaluating Influencing Strategies and Interventions (Uncategorized)
- July 15 A results take-over of aid effectiveness? How to balance multiple or competing calls for more accountability (Debate, Types of Events)
- July 15 ISO International Workshop Agreement (IWA) on Evaluation Capacity Development (Types of Events, Uncategorized, Workshops)
- July 15 10th European Evaluation Society Biennial Conference, Helsinki, Oct 2012 (Conferences, Types of Events)
- June 8 Walking the talk: the need for a trial registry for development interventions (Uncategorized)
- June 6 Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Impact Evaluation and Measuring Results (Uncategorized)
- May 22 A CAN OF WORMS? IMPLICATIONS OF RIGOROUS IMPACT EVALUATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES (Uncategorized)
- April 26 Impact Evaluation in Practice
- April 15 Learning how to learn: eight lessons for impact evaluations that make a difference (Uncategorized)
- March 25 Behavioral economics and randomized trials: trumpeted, attacked and parried (Uncategorized)
- March 14 Beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Changing norms and meeting targets (Uncategorized)
- February 17 Nature Editorial: To ensure their results are reproducible, analysts should show their workings. (Uncategorized)
- February 11 Social assessment of conservation initiatives: A review of rapid methodologies (Uncategorized)
- February 2 INTRAC, PSO & PRIA Monitoring and Evaluation Conference (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- January 17 Call for Abstracts – Forthcoming Sri Lankan Evaluation Association Conference June 6 -10, 2011 (Conferences, Types of Events)
- January 4 Impact Evaluation Conference: “Mind the Gap”: From Evidence to Impact (Conferences, Types of Events)
- December 20 Expert seminar with Dr MQ Patton ‘Developmental evaluation’ (Types of Events, Workshops)
- December 6 What Accountability Pressures do MPs in Africa Face and How Do They Respond? Evidence from Ghana (Uncategorized)
- December 6 Value for Money: How are other donors approaching ‘value for money’ in their aid programming? (Uncategorized)
- December 3 Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the welfare impact of policy-orientated research in agriculture (Uncategorized)
- December 1 Review of Impact and Effectiveness of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (Uncategorized)
- October 30 Indices, Benchmarks, and Indicators: Planning and Evaluating Human Rights Dialogues (Uncategorized)
- October 29 Results, risk assessment and management in development cooperation – Towards a Common Approach (Conferences, Types of Events)
- October 20 Seminar: Complexity-oriented Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): from alternative to mainstream? (Conferences, Types of Events)
- October 18 Conference: Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values (Conferences, Types of Events)
- October 14 When is the rigorous impact evaluation of development projects a luxury, and when is it a necessity? (Uncategorized)
- October 11 The Katine Challenge: How to analyse 540+ stories about a rural development project (Uncategorized)
- September 14 Do Less Transparent Donors Allocate Aid Differently?
- September 6 US Office of Management and Budget: Increased emphasis on Program Evaluations (Uncategorized)
- September 1 Measuring Results for Dutch Development Aid, Approaches and Future Directions (Conferences, Types of Events)
- August 23 Designing Initiative Evaluation A Systems-oriented Framework for Evaluating Social Change Efforts (Uncategorized)
- August 20 The American Evaluation Association annual conference: Evaluation Quality (Conferences, Types of Events)
- August 16 The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance (Uncategorized)
- July 13 EVALUATING DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION: SUMMARY OF KEY NORMS AND STANDARDS. SECOND EDITION (Uncategorized)
- July 4 Guidance on Terms of Reference for an Evaluation: A List (Evaluation Terms of Reference, Lists of sources re ...)
- June 14 The Global Evaluation Conclave: Making Evaluation matter (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- May 19 How Wide are the Ripples?
- March 30 The Implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Where do We Stand and How to Move Forward? (Training, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- March 24 International Development Evaluation: Foundations and Practices (Training, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- March 24 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON METHODOLOGY IN PROGRAMME EVALUATION (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- March 10 UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards
- March 4 Fit for the Future Conference: Measuring Impact, Communicating Results (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- February 26 2010 ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATORS NETWORKING FORUM (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- February 19 Evaluating Climate Change and Development
- February 19 Meetings on evaluation and complexity
- February 10 Conference: “Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity.” (Conferences, Types of Events)
- February 6 European Evaluation Society Conference – Evaluation in the Public Interest – Participation, Politics and Policy (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- January 31 The 2010 International Program for Development Evaluation Training (Training, Types of Events, Uncategorized, Workshops)
- January 31 Workshop: Understanding the effects of development interventions: Theory-based impact evaluation in practice. (Types of Events, Uncategorized, Workshops)
- January 12 Workshop: Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System (Types of Events, Uncategorized, Workshops)
- January 11 Training: Logical Framework Analysis for Programme & Project Planning (Training, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- January 1 *Outcome Mapping Training in Switzerland – June 28 to July 2, 2010 (Training, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- December 24 Twitter feeds on M&E: A List
- December 24 Perspectives on partnership: A literature review
- December 22 Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?
- December 21 Evaluation in Conflict Prone Settings: Londonderry, June 2010 (Training, Types of Events)
- December 18 ActionAid reports on “systematization”
- November 17 “Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation with Special Application to Population and Health” (Training, Types of Events)
- October 27 The 9th European Evaluation Society International Conference (Conferences, Types of Events)
- October 25 The Use of Social Network Analysis Tools in the Evaluation of Social Change Communications (Uncategorized)
- October 19 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) First Annual Conference (Types of Events)
- October 9 Executive education course, “Evaluating Social Programs” in Santiago, Chile (Training, Types of Events)
- September 22 Community Radio Performance Assessment System.
- September 17 Evaluation in the UK third sector: current issues, future challenges (Types of Events, Workshops)
- September 2 Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Programmes University of Pretoria (Training, Types of Events)
- August 26 Pilot training course on the DCED Standard for results measurement (Training, Types of Events)
- August 26 The Child Rights in Practice: Measuring our Impact conference (Conferences, Types of Events)
- August 26 Training in the Most Significant Change Evaluation Technique (Cardiff, UK) (Training, Types of Events)
- August 25 Measuring Change II: Expanding Knowledge on Monitoring and Evaluation in Media Development (Conferences, Types of Events)
- August 7 Identifiying and documenting “Lessons Learned”: A list of references (Guidance on Lessons Learned, Lists of sources re ...)
- August 6 International Course on Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation – Navigating and Managing for Impact (Training, Types of Events)
- July 22 Evaluation of Conflict Sensibility, Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Programmes (Training, Types of Events)
- June 4 A Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs (Types of Events, Workshops)
- May 20 Stakeholder analysis and social network analysis in natural resource management (Uncategorized)
- May 19 Training in Most Significant Change Technique (MSC) in Oxford, UK (Training, Types of Events, Workshops)
- May 5 Live webcast event on Real World Evaluation with Jim Rugh and Michael Bamberger (Types of Events)
- April 17 The Accountability Initiative
- April 16 EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009: Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development (16-18 October 2009) (Conferences, Training, Types of Events)
- April 14 Results of the CONFERENCE ON IMPACT EVALUATION HELD IN CAIRO 29 MARCH – 2 APRIL (Conferences, Workshops)
- April 8 M&E Newsletters
- April 6 On-line training in Monitoring and Evaluation using Results Based Project Management (Training, Types of Events)
- March 30 Summer School On Monitoring And Evaluation Of International Programmes And Public Policies (Training, Types of Events)
- March 23 Valuing impact: Building an Association of Nonprofit Analysts (Conferences, Types of Events)
- January 28 Results-based Management, Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology Workshop (Training, Types of Events)
- January 7 Symposium: “Getting to Results: Evaluation Capacity Building and Development” (Conferences, Types of Events)
- January 5 International Course on ‘Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation. Managing and Learning for Impact” (Training, Types of Events)
- December 21 Complexity in Aid Workshop series: Strategy in a complex world (Types of Events, Workshops)
- December 7 TrainEval – Training for Evaluation in Development, 3rd course in March-July 2009 (Training, Types of Events)
- December 2 Ipact at the University of Aberdeen: Course on monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs (in Tanzania) (Training, Types of Events)
- December 2 Ipact at the University of Aberdeen: Course on monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs (in Burkina Faso) (Training, Types of Events)
- December 1 Evaluating international advocacy networks
- November 21 INVITATION: Building the Evidence to Reduce Poverty – launch of the public consultation on DFID’s new Evaluation Policy (Conferences, Types of Events, Uncategorized)
- November 1 PERSPECTIVES ON IMPACT EVALUATION: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness (Conferences, Types of Events)
- October 1 Michael Scriven teaches “An Introduction to Evaluation” online (Training, Types of Events)
- September 30 Upcoming training opportunities with Jess Dart of Clear Horizon (Training, Types of Events)
- September 25 International Aid Transparency Initiative
- August 20 Social Audit Toolkit – 4th Edition
- August 19 IPEN Conference on “Ensuring effective performance through evaluation” (Conferences, Types of Events)
- August 15 Measuring Effectiveness – Participation, Empowerment and Downward Accountability (Conferences, Types of Events)
- August 7 Evaluation of Humanitarian Action with ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action) (Training, Types of Events)
- August 7 Training in Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Programmes (Training, Types of Events)
- July 10 Does Empowerment Work?
- July 3 AfrEA-NONIE-3ie International Conference on Impact Evaluation for Development Effectiveness (Conferences, Types of Events)
- June 2 ODI Seminar: Exploring the Science of Complexity in Aid Policy and Practice (Types of Events, Workshops)
- May 30 Conference: What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small (Conferences, Types of Events)
- May 23 Conference: Policy and programme evaluation in Europe: Cultures and prospects (Conferences, Types of Events)
- April 29 Invitation to join a dedicated discussion forum on reconstructing baseline data (Email lists)
- January 6 ParEvo – a web assisted participatory scenario planning process (Consultations, Uncategorized)
- January 1 Conference: Evaluation 2008 – Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice (Conferences, Types of Events)
- January 1 AidProject M+E software
- January 1 Social Network Analysis and Evaluation: A List (Lists of sources re ..., Social Network Analysis & Evaluation)
- January 1 Evaluation societies, associations and groups: A list (Evaluation societies, Lists of sources re ...)
- January 1 The Logical Framework: A list of useful documents (Lists of sources re ..., The Logical Framework)
- December 15 The utilisation of evaluations.
- June 30 Results-based Management in CIDA
- June 15 Monitoring government policies A toolkit for civil society organisations in Africa (Uncategorized)
- April 5 Who Measures Change
- September 11 Peer Review: A Tool for Co-operation and Change