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Advocacy & Empowerment: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Behaviour Change Campaigns
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Campaign Strategies
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Campaigning: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Church Development Cooperation
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Misereor (Catholic Development Agency, Germany)
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Behaviour Change Communication
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Development Communication: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Sustainable Development
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Development Assistance: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Development Projects: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Learning-Centred Evaluation
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Using Evaluation Results, Learning from Evaluations
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Strategic Alliances, Strategic Partnerships
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Accountability & Transparency
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Follow-Up Processes
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Data Analysis & Interpretation
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Randomised Control Trials & (Quasi-) Experimental Designs
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Theories of Change
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Evolution of Program Evaluation: A Historical Analysis of Leading Theorists’ Views and Influences
Education Quarterly Reviews, volume 8, issue 1 (2025), pp. 142-155
"Program evaluation has undergone significant evolution, shaped by diverse theoretical perspectives and influential scholars. This study provides a historical analysis of leading theorists’ views and their impact on the field, tracing key developments from early accountability-focused models to co
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Program Evaluation Theory and Practice: A Comprehensive Guide
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2025), xxii, 631 pp.
"Covering both the theory and practice of evaluation in one engaging volume, this leading text is now in a revised third edition. It features additional evaluation approaches, such as the Indigenous paradigm; new examples, ranging from small to large and multi-site evaluations; and more. Instructors
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Addressing Environmental Sustainability Through the OECD DAC Criteria for Evaluation of Development Assistance
Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 9 pp.
"This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and monitoring. These criteria are widely used in inter
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Sustainability-inclusive evaluation: Why we need it and how to do it: A Footprint Evaluation Guide
Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 62 pp.
"The guidance is intended to support people who are planning, managing or conducting evaluations, especially within national and sub-national governments, to include environmental sustainability, even when this is not a stated objective of the program or policy. Environmental sustainability includes
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Evaluation Roots: Theory Influencing Practice
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2023), ix, 318 pp.
"Showing how evaluation practice looks when guided by theory, the third edition of the influential "theory tree" book is significantly revised with over 80% new material, including a greater focus on equity and theories over theorists. Chapters from leading authorities describe the goals of each the
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Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice: Confronting the Culture of Silence
New York; London: Guilford Press (2023), xiv, 171 pp.
"From the founder of empowerment evaluation (EE), a framework uniquely suited to advancing social justice causes, this book explains the theories, principles, and steps of conducting EE from scratch or within a preexisting evaluation or work plan. David M. Fetterman describes how EE enables program
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Choosing an Evaluation Theory: A Supplement to Evaluation Roots (3rd Edition)
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, volume 17, issue 41 (2021), pp. 51-60
"Unlike scientific theories, evaluation theories are prescriptive: a set of actions and approaches that should be followed when conducting an evaluation. While evaluation theorists have offered a variety of writings describing their theories and approaches, few have offered a specific outline of wha
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Evaluation in the Development Cooperation Activities of MISEREOR and its Partners
Aachen: Misereor, 3d ed. (2017), 30 pp.
Evaluating Behavior Change in International Development Operations: A New Framework
Washington, DC: World Bank (2016), ix, 78 pp.
"This paper on behavior change constitutes one of two methodology papers (the other being on service delivery) that establish a new lens through which to understand the World Bank’s portfolio in IEG (Independent Evaluation Group) evaluations. The paper outlines the economic and psychosocial theori
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Good Practice Study on Principles for Indicator Development, Selection, and Use in Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation
Climate-Eval Community of Practice (2015), viii, 87 pp.
"This study identifies and addresses key challenges concerning M&E for climate change adaptation (CCA). It does so by documenting good practices and good practice principles on the development, selection, and use of indicators used in the M&E of adaptation interventions. The study also looks at the
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Using the Better Evaluation Rainbow Framework
Better Evaluation (2014), 2 pp.
"The BetterEvaluation Rainbow Framework prompts you to think about a series of key questions. It is important to consider all these issues, including reporting, at the beginning of an evaluation. The Framework can be used to plan an evaluation or to locate information about particular types of metho
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Building Our Understanding: Key Concepts of Evaluation. Applying Theory in the Evaluation of Communication Campaigns
Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), Healthy Communities Program, Creating a Culture of Healthy Living (2009), 7 pp.
"[...] Fortunately, in the last decade in particular, much progress has been made on incorporating social science theory into both campaign design and evaluation, primarily in the health field. Indeed, evaluators are being encouraged to engage in theory testing and/or logic model development. Findin
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Evaluation of Citizens' Voice and Accountability: Review of the Literature and Donor Approaches Report
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2007), xii, 60 pp.
"Enhancing citizen voice and accountability has increased in importance for donors since the 1990s. This paper reviews existing literature and the strategy and policy documents of seven DAC donors in order to contribute to the design of an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of these do
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Assessing and Improving Partnership Relationships and Outcomes: A Proposed Framework
Evaluation and Program Planning, volume 25 (2002), pp. 215-231
"To date, no evaluation frameworks are specifically targeted at evaluating partnership relationships, as opposed to partnership programmatic outcomes. Following a discussion and definition of partnership, its defining features, and value-added, the paper proposes a framework for assessing partnershi
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Values in evaluation and social research
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (1999), xxi, 152 pp.
"The focus of this book is on evaluation theory rather than on practice, even though we do suggest implications for practice. We believe theory is used to justify and inform practice, so the theory makes a difference to practice over the long run. And practice can inform theory, as it has done many
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Evaluierung in der kirchlichen Entwicklungsarbeit: Ein Arbeitsbuch für Partnerorganisationen und Hilfswerke
Aachen: Misereor (1992), 116 pp.
Dieses Buch verdeutlicht, dass die kirchliche Entwicklungsarbeit stärker als die staatliche Zusammenarbeit die Stäkung der Eigenverantwortlichkeit der Partner in den Vordergrund ihrer Evaluierungsarbeit stellt und sich weniger an den herkömmlichen Methoden der Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse orientiert. Na
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