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"Behavior Change Communication (BCC) interventions have become an integral part of many HIV prevention programs. Monitoring and evaluation is expected to be included in the design of any BCC interventions from the beginning on. However, the know-how on how to demonstrate results and impacts of such
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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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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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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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Four Essentials for Evaluation
Washington, DC: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) (2012), 32 pp.
"When done well, evaluation for learning can help grantmakers, their grantees and their partners improve outcomes on the ground in real time. But doing it well requires that we work with key stakeholders to develop the leadership, the strategies and the systems that facilitate true learning.
1. LEAD
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Introduction to Mixed Methods in Impact Evaluation
InterAction; Rockefeller Foundation (2012), 38 pp.
"Mixed methods (MM) evaluations seek to integrate social science disciplines with predominantly quantitative (QUANT) and predominantly qualitative (QUAL) approaches to theory, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. The purpose is to strengthen the reliability of data, validity of the fin
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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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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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"In step with United Nations efforts to further promote universal standards and better protect people against human rights violations, this publication of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides practical guidance for the development of quantitative and qualitati
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Tools and Methods for Evaluating the Efficiency of Development Interventions
Bonn; Berlin: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2012), xiv, 117 pp.
"The present paper explores approaches for assessing efficiency. Efficiency is a powerful concept for decision making and ex post assessments of development interventions but, nevertheless, often treated rather superficially in project appraisal, project completion and evaluation reports. Assessing
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Medición y evaluación en comunicación
Málaga: Instituto de Investigación en Relaciones Públicas (IIRP) (2011), 112 pp.
Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators
Deep Insights
New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 343 pp.
"Press freedom indices such as those administered by Freedom House, IREX, and Reporters Without Borders have emerged as crucial tools, not only for the general public, but also for donors, implementers, and academics in their attempts to understand the relationships among media assistance, democrati
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Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 35 pp.
"A wide array of media development practitioners, donors, international broadcasters, and methodologists, all with extensive experience working in media initiatives in conflict environments met in Caux, Switzerland, in December 2010, to establish the Caux Guiding Principles, whose full text is in th
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Community MHz: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal. A Pilot Assessment of 15 Stations
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2011), 124 pp.
"This document reports on the pilot assessment of 15 community radio stations – or of radios that claim to be community radios – based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) developed by the Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) / Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (
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Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS): Pacific Media Benchmarks (2005)
Melbourne; Adelaide: Australian Aid (AusAID); Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); University of Adelaide (2011), 87 pp.
"This study draws together two bodies of work concerned with media pluralism, effectiveness, development and strengthening in the developing world. One is drawn from UNESCO’s global work on media assessment and impact indicators, the other from AusAID’s Pacific Media and Communications Facility
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"This working paper aims to synthesize current efforts to develop comparable evaluation methods for social issue documentary films. Authored by two researchers who have been jointly documenting the field’s transformation over the past five years, this paper offers a framework for planning and eval
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Ex-ante-Evaluation: Ein Planungsansatz für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Münster et al.: Waxmann (2011), 295 pp.
"Ziel des Buches ist es, durch die systematische Verknüpfung des Gegenstandsbereichs verschiedener Analyseansätze einen ganzheitlichen und theoretisch fundierten Bewertungsrahmen sowie einen methodisch ausgearbeiteten Verfahrensvorschlag für die Ex-ante-Evaluation von Programmen zu vermitteln. Im
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