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Toolkit for the Impact Assessment of Science Communication Initiatives and Policies

Vladimir de Semir, Gema Revuelta, Kostas Dimopoulos et al.

Platform of Local Authorities and Communicators Engaged in Science (PLACES) (2011), 89 pp.

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Project/Programme Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Guide

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2011), 130 pp.

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Monitoring and Measuring Press Freedom on a Global Scale: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Freedom House Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar

In: On Media Monitoring: The Media and Their Contribution to Democracy

Josef Trappel; Werner A. Meier (eds.)

New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 25-36

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Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators

Cecile Kusters

Simone van Vugt; Seerp Wigboldus; Bob Williams; Jim Woodhill (contrib.)

Wageningen: Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research Centre (2011), 118 pp.

"Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little done to bring about change within organisations. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations contribute to empowering stakeholde ... more

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Impact Evaluation in Practice

Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.

"This book off ers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in impact evalu ... ation. Prospective impact evaluations assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results or test alternative strategies for achieving those results. We consider that more and better impact evaluations will help strengthen the evidence base for development policies and programs around the world. Our hope is that if governments and development practitioners can make policy decisions based on evidence—including evidence generated through impact evaluation—development resources will be spent more eff ectively to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. The three parts in this handbook provide a nontechnical introduction to impact evaluations, discussing what to evaluate and why in part 1; how to evaluate in part 2; and how to implement an evaluation in part 3. These elements are the basic tools needed to successfully carry out an impact evaluation. The approach to impact evaluation in this book is largely intuitive, and we attempt to minimize technical notation. We provide the reader with a core set of impact evaluation tools—the concepts and methods that underpin any impact evaluation—and discuss their application to real-world development operations. The methods are drawn directly from applied research in the social sciences and share many commonalities with research methods used in the natural sciences. In this sense, impact evaluation brings the empirical research tools widely used in economics and other social sciences together with the operational and political-economy realities of policy implementation and development practice. From a methodological standpoint, our approach to impact evaluation is largely pragmatic: we think that the most appropriate methods should be identified to fit the operational context, and not the other way around. This is best achieved at the outset of a program, through the design of prospective impact evaluations that are built into the project’s implementation. We argue that gaining consensus among key stakeholders and identifying an evaluation design that fits the political and operational context are as important as the method itself. We also believe strongly that impact evaluations should be candid about their limitations and caveats. Finally, we strongly encourage policy makers and program managers to consider impact evaluations in a logical framework that clearly sets out the causal pathways by which a program works to produce outputs and influence final outcomes, and to combine impact evaluations with monitoring and complementary evaluation approaches to gain a full picture of performance." (Preface) more

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The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results
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Robert M. Penna

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2011), xxi, 356 pp.

"The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox identifies stages in the use of outcomes and shows you how to use specific facets of existing outcome models to improve performance and achieve meaningful results. Going beyond the familiar limits of the sector, this volume also illustrates how tools and approaches lo ... more

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Measuring the Impacts of Information and Communication Technology for Development

New York, Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2011), v, 23 pp.

"This paper explores why measuring the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) is important for development – and why it is statistically challenging. Measuring impacts in any field is difficult, but for ICT there are added complications because of its diversity and rapidly chang ... more

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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

Michael Quinn Patton

New York: Guilford Press (2011), xxi, 373 pp.

"Developmental evaluation offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a developmental evaluation framework. Patton draws ... more

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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices

Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Hussain A. Samad

Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xx, 239 pp.

"This book reviews quantitative methods and models of impact evaluation, presenting an analysis of the quantitative research underlying recent programme evaluations and case studies prepared for a series of impact evaluation workshops in different countries, sponsored by the World Bank Institute (WB ... more

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Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure

John Burgess

Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA);Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2010), 63 pp.

"The organizations that conduct country rankings should continue to increase technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency. In particular, continued attention must be paid to digital media, notably the Internet and mobile phones, which now number approximately 4.6 billion worldwide ... more

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Measuring Change II: Expanding Knowledge on Monitoring and Evaluation in Media Development. 5th Symposium Forum Medien Und Entwicklung (FoME)

A. Sofie Jannusch, Thomas R. Lansner (eds.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2010), 125 pp.

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Methods of Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Environments

Maureen Taylor

Montreaux (CH): Conference "Evaluating the Impact of Media Interventions in Conflict Countries", Caux Conference Center, December 13-17 (2010), 15 pp.

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Agency-Based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice

Stephen A. Kapp, Gary R. Anderson

Thousand Oaks: Sage (2010), 323 pp.

"Agency-based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice, by Stephen A. Kapp and Gary R. Anderson, serves as a core textbook in the advanced undergraduate and graduate social work program evaluation courses. It combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies a ... more

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Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy: Companion to the Advocacy Toolkit

Julia Coffman

UNICEF (2010), 48 pp.

"This document outlines basic steps in planning monitoring and evaluation for advocacy and covers: distinctive features of monitoring and evaluation for advocacy; five questions for planning advocacy monitoring and evaluation; special focuses on equity, humanitarian advocacy monitoring and evaluatio ... more

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From Mapping Information Ecologies to Evaluating Media Interventions: An Experts Survey on Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries

Iginio Gagliardone

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2010), 37 pp.

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Normes de qualité pour l’évaluation du développement

OCDE (2010), 15 pp.

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Evaluating Peace Operations

Paul F. Diehl, Daniel Druckman

Boulder, Col.: Rienner (2010), ix, 234 pp.

"There has been a great deal written on why peace operations succeed or fail [...] But how are those judgments reached? By what criteria is success defined? Success for whom? Paul Diehl and Daniel Druckman explore the complexities of evaluating peace operation outcomes, providing an original, detail ... more

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Quality Standards for Development Evaluation

Paris: OECD (2010), 15 pp.

"The Standards aim to improve quality and ultimately to strengthen the contribution of evaluation to improving development outcomes. Specifically, the Standards are intended to: improve the quality of development evaluation processes and products, facilitate the comparison of evaluations across coun ... more

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Indicator Gap Analysis Media

Natasha Wanchek, Lynn Carter

Washington, DC: USAID;Management Systems International (MSI), 2nd draft (2010), 55 pp.

"This report discusses the state of media development indicators in relation to a new Results Framework (RF) drafted by USAID in 2009. There were three aims for the report: To collect and screen the strongest indicators developed by different organizations or individuals for measuring meso-level obj ... more

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Discussion Paper on the Monitoring and Evaluation of UN-Assisted Communication for Development Programmes: Recommendations for Best Practice Methodologies and Indicators. 11th UN Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development. Background Paper

Andrew Puddephatt, Rebecca Horsewell, Georgina Menheneott

Washington, DC: UNDP;World Bank (2009), 43 pp.

"United Nations agencies currently do not have commonly agreed tools for assessing the impact of Communication for Development (C4D) programmes. This paper is designed to help them explore the key issues surrounding C4D, consider case studies and best practice methodology and propose a set of draft ... more

The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results Key Guidance

The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results
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