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"A pesar de que las inversiones externas en proyectos de medios han aumentado – con excepción de América Latina – hacen falta estudios que analicen el impacto de estas inversiones. A veces se han publicado evaluaciones de proyectos individuales, pero se careció de estudios que analizaran el c ... more
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) ist in Deutschland das Politikfeld mit der längsten Evaluationstradition. Alle größeren deutschen EZ-Organisationen nutzen das Instrument der Evaluation – quantitativ und qualitativ jedoch in sehr unterschiedlichem Maße. Diese zwei Bände umfassende Studie ... more
"Explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The boo ... more
"[...] 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 ... more
"This Working Paper from DFID’s Evaluation Department offers a menu of Voice & Accountability (V&A) indicators, and suggests steps for building monitoring and evaluation frameworks for V&A interventions. It provides a check list of management issues, and some ideas for data collection. It does not ... more
"Although the argument for evaluating advocacy is convincing, advocacy has long been considered “too hard to measure,” and so far relatively few advocates, funders, or evaluators have taken on the challenge. But this is now changing. Interest in advocacy evaluation is surging and cutting-edge ad ... more
"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 paper is divided into two parts: Part One describes a methodology for designing an M&E system. This covers a number of stages from defining the scope and purpose of the system to its eventual roll out. However, it does not cover the implementation of the M&E system. Part Two addresses many of t ... more
"Die anvisierte Leserschaft dieser Landkarte ist die entwicklungspolitische Fachwelt, die mit der Analyse von tatsächlichen, das heißt empirisch nachprüfbaren (de facto) Wirkungen befasst ist und die einen schnellen, informativen Zugriff auf das Vorhandene benötigt. Dies sind in erster Linie Pro ... more
"This publication allows community radio stations to assess their performance regarding: community participation and ownership; radio governance structures and procedures; radio programme structure; radio station management; financial management and resource structure; as well as networking. Using a ... more
"This guide outlines a step-by-step process for developing a performance story report in the context of natural resource management. The guide can be used in a range of contexts by evaluators and others who want to use participatory evaluation approaches to report on outcomes. Users may include cons ... more