Toolbox Evaluation & Impact Assessment

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

Qualitätssicherung in der Weiterbildung internationaler Journalisten: Studie zum konzeptionellen und strategischen Vorgehen für PM+E-Maßnahmen des Internationalen Instituts für Journalismus (IIJ) von InWEnt

Susanne Fengler, Sandra Voglreiter, Judith Pies, Marlene Stube

Berlin; Dortmund: Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt), Internationales Institut für Journalismus (IIJ); Erich-Brost-Institut (2009), 43 pp.

"Ziel der hier vorgelegten Studie ist es, analog der Vorgaben des PriME-Handbuchs 2008 von InWEnt, gemäß der Kriterien für Evaluation von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nach OECD-DAC, unter Rückgriff auf angelsächsische Modelle für PM+E im Bereich der Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit sowie unter R ... more

Community Radio Performance Assessment System
Key Guidance

Raghu Mainali, Yadab Chapagain, Bikram Subba

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 86 pp.

"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

Country-Led Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: Better Evidence, Better Policies, Better Development Results

Marco Segone (ed.)

Geneva: UNICEF Regional Office for CEECIS (2009), 312 pp.

Virtual Change: Indicators for Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development

Warren Feek

Rome: FAO (2009), ix, 38 pp.

How to Assess Your Media Landscape: A Toolkit Approach

Fackson Banda, Guy Berger, A. S. Panneerselvan, Lakshmi Nair, Mark Whitehouse

Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2009), 35 pp.

Developing M&E Systems for Complex Organisations: A Methodology

Nigel Simister

Oxford: INTRAC (2009), 36 pp.

"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

Independent Study on Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States: Towards a Risk-Based Approach

Peggy Valcke (ed.)

Leuven: KU Leuven, ICRI; Central European University, CMCS; Jönköping International Business School, MMTC (2009), x, 155 pp.

"The outcome of this study is a prototype for a European Media Pluralism Monitor – a riskbased, holistic, user-friendly and evolving monitoring tool that includes indicators of a legal, economic and socio-demographic nature. In order to account for the multi-faceted character of media pluralism, t ... more

Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management = Glossar entwicklungspolitischer Schlüsselbegriffe aus den Bereichen Evaluierung und ergebnisorientiertes Management

Paris: DAC Network on Development Evaluation (2009), 47 pp.

"With this glossary, the DAC Working Group on Evaluation for Development Cooperation hopes to facilitate and improve dialogue and understanding among all those involved in development activities and their evaluation, whether in partner countries, development organizations and banks, or nongovernment ... more

Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse: Eine Landkarte für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis

DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation, Arbeitskreis „Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik“ (2009), 51 pp.

"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

Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work

Jeremy Holland, Allyson Thirkell

London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFID) (2009), v, 72 pp.

"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

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Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation

Tom Ling, Lidia Villalba van Dijk (eds.)

RAND Europe (2009), xi, 208 pp.

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Improving Impact Evaluation Production and Use

Nicola Jones, Harry Jones, Liesbet Steer, Ajoy Datta

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2009), viii, 78 pp.

A User’s Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project (2009), 22 pp.

"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

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services
Key Guidance

Wageningen; The Hague; Amsterdam: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); Royal Tropical Institute (KIT); International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2009), xi, 321 pp.

"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri ... more

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Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results

New York: UNDP (2009), x, 220 pp.

"This 2009 version of the ‘Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results’ aims to support UNDP in becoming more results-oriented and to improve its focus on development changes and real improvements in people’s lives. It replaces and updates the previous Handbook from ... more

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Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects

Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.

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Evaluation in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Band 1: Systemanalysen. Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung – BMZ

Axel Borrmann, Reinhard Stockmann

Münster et al.: Waxmann (2009), 213 pp.

"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

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 ... more