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The Healthy Community Radio Station
Key Guides
"This publication is a diagnostic tool for a "health check" or assessment of the sustainability of community radio stations. The check includes five areas: mission and governance of a community radio station; management and staffing; infrastructure and finances; programming; and community involvemen
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Die Gruppendiskussion als Evaluationsmethode: Entwicklungsgeschichte, Potenziale und Formen
Zeitschrift für Evaluation, volume 12, issue 1 (2013), pp. 23-51
"Der Artikel beabsichtigt, den derzeitigen Diskussionsstand zu Theorie und Praxis der Gruppendiskussion bezogen auf das Feld der Evaluation zusammenzutassen, die Stärken und Grenzen von Gruppendiskussionen in evaluativen Vorhaben zu skizzieren und eine weitere Fundierung der Gruppendiskussion in de
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Measuring Impact: The Art, Science and Mystery of Nonprofit News
Washington, DC: American University, School of Communcation (2013), 22 pp.
"This report seeks to answer the two-pronged question, “What is ‘impact,’ and how can it be measured consistently across nonprofit newsrooms?” A review of recent, relevant literature and our informal conversations with experts in the field reveal growing ambitions toward the goal of developi
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Planning Evaluability Assessments: A Synthesis of the Literature with Recommendations
London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFIP) (2013), iv, 48 pp.
"[...] Amongst those agencies the following OECD DAC definition of evaluability is widely accepted and has been applied within this report: “The extent to which an activity or project can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion”.
Eighteen recommendations about the use of Evaluability Ass
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Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 189 pp.
"Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and eva
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Building indicators in media assistance: Four ways evaluation reports present "change"
Shanghai; Brisbane: ICA Regional Conference: Communication and Social Transformation, 8-10 November 2013; Queensland University of Technology (2013), 15 pp.
"This paper draws on some preliminary findings from a comparative thematic analysis of 47 evaluation documents of media assistance programs. The aim of this analysis is to identify trends in impact evaluation practice in the media assistance field, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of differen
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Utilization Focused Evaluation: A Primer for Evaluators
Penang: Southbound (2013), xii, 114 pp.
"Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to their work. The focus is on intended users. UFE does not prescribe any specific content, method, or theory. It is a guiding framework, rather than a met
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Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
Deep Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 26 pp.
"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes [...] The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The seco
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Adapting Concepts of Media Freedom to a Changing Media Environment: Incorporating New Media and Citizen Journalism Into the Freedom of the Press Index
ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 13-22
"The present article discusses how the new categoryof “citizen journalist” fits into the overall media environment and how the Freedom House Freedom of the Press methodology has been changed to incorporate this category." (Abstract)
"BBC Media Action has made strengthening the evidence base of reports, data sets, and analysis about the role of media and communication in democratic development a priority. Yet, the extent to which different donor organizations, foundations, think tanks, practitioners, and academics utilize resear
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Introduction to Impact Evaluation
Rockefeller Foundation (2012), 18 pp.
"This first guidance note, Introduction to Impact Evaluation, provides an overview of impact evaluation, explaining how impact evaluation differs from – and complements – other types of evaluation, why impact evaluation should be done, when and by whom. It describes different methods, approaches
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Measuring Press Freedom and Media Sector Performance: How Social Media Have Affected the Media Sustainability Index
ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 29-43
"The present text explains how the Media Sustanability Index has refined its instrument and procedures to better capture the impact of social media." (Abstract)
Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media: Framework of Indicators to Gauge Sensitivity in Media Operations and Content
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 183 pp.
"The gender-sensitive indicators for media (GSIM) is a non-prescriptive set of indicators, designed particularly for media of all forms. However it bears much relevance and usefulness to citizens' media groups advocating for gender equality, other non-governmental organizations, media associations,
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Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility: Improving Learning for Results
Paris: OECD (2012), 97 pp.
"This guidance aims to help improve programme design and management and strengthen the use of evaluation in order to enhance the quality of conflict prevention and peacebuilding work. It seeks to guide policy makers and country partners, field and programme officers, evaluators and other stakeholder
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Study on Communicating Evaluation Results
London: OECD Informal Network of DAC Development Communicators (DevCom Network) (2012), 25 pp.
"The main aim of this study is to examine and document the current state of how communicators and evaluators share results of development co-operation and specifically the outcomes of evaluations, including ‘negative’ or ‘sensitive’ results. Related to this, the study will shed light on the
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Guidance on Monitoring and Evaluation
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), revised ed. (2012), 133 pp.
Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xxii, 461 pp.
"Based on Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed 'essentials' book provides both an overall framework and concrete advice for how to conduct useful evaluations that actually get used. This book integrates both theory and practice and is not only based
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Use of Impact Evaluation Results
InterAction; Rockefeller Foundation (2012), 19 pp.
"Since impact evaluations focus on results and what contributes to results, logically there should be a greater enthusiasm for making use of the findings. Impact evaluations also tend to cost more than other types of evaluation, implying that they should command significant follow up as well. It tur
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Cluster Evaluation Report: UNDEF-Funded Media-Related Projects
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2012), 40 pp.
"This report is the cluster evaluation of 12 UNDEF-supported projects related to the media. It concerns projects that either focused on media capacity building or included a significant element of work with the media. The projects were implemented between 2007 and 2011; they lasted between 12 and 24
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