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Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability
Los Angeles; London; New Delhi: Sage (2021), xxvi, 553 pp.
"This timely and comprehensive textbook covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs, particularly social programs and projects, with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective. It provides students with an equ
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Choosing an Evaluation Theory: A Supplement to Evaluation Roots (3rd Edition)
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, volume 17, issue 41 (2021), pp. 51-60
"Unlike scientific theories, evaluation theories are prescriptive: a set of actions and approaches that should be followed when conducting an evaluation. While evaluation theorists have offered a variety of writings describing their theories and approaches, few have offered a specific outline of wha
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M&E of Training
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Training can take different forms. It can be carried out as a one-off exercise, or can be combined with other types of support, such as coaching or mentoring. The most well-known model for monitoring and evaluating training is the Kirkpatrick model, developed in the 1950s. A number of other models
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A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices
Key Guides
USAID (2021), v, 79 pp.
"The purpose of this review is to support education practitioners, host country government representatives, donors, implementers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, and other stakeholders in applying best practices to monitor and evaluate distance learning initiative
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Tools for M&E of Capacity Strenghtening
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Changes arising from capacity strengthening work can sometimes be measured directly. A range of tools and methodologies can also be used to help assess capacity change. Most of these were not designed specifically with capacity strengthening in mind, but can easily be adapted for the purpose. CSOs
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Remote Evaluations: Initial Experience and Recommendations
Braunschweig; Berlin: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (National Metrology Institute) (2021), 10 pp.
"Advantages and disadvantages of remote evaluations: Advantages: environmentally friendly and applicable in case of travel restrictions; a cost-effective and more efficient implementation is possible; reduction of the project staff's workload; flexibility in scheduling the data collection, interview
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Organisational Assessment Tools
INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.
"Organisational assessment (OA) tools are designed to assess organisational capacity, and plan capacity development initiatives. Sometimes they are used for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) purposes as well. There are two main ways of using OA tools for M&E. One is to develop an action plan based on
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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank (2021), xviii, 209 pp.
"Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. An empirical revolution has changed the face of development research over the last decade. Increasingly, researchers are
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Media for Democracy Assessment Tool: Learning, Evaluation, and Research (LER) Activity
Key Guides
Washington, DC; Landover, MD: USAID; Cloudburst Group (2021), 93 pp.
"The purpose of the Media for Democracy Assessment Tool (MAT) is to assist United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in producing media assessments to inform strategy on media and democracy programming, help inform potential media development programming goals, and help provide an i
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Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Methods and Frameworks
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2021), vi, 230 pp.
"In the emerging fields of religious and interreligious peacebuilding, the question of monitoring and evaluation is a challenging, yet necessary process. The need to develop comprehensive yet fitting evaluation models for religious and interreligious peacebuilding is not only important for donor int
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M&E of Network Development
INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.
"Network results can be divided into different categories, such as network vibrancy, network connectivity and network effects. Monitoring and evaluation tools and methods need to be chosen to assess each of these areas separately, depending on the need. Network surveys and social network analysis ar
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"Many systematic reviews are solely concerned with effectiveness or impact. While a review which tells you what works can help you decide what to do, it is of less use in telling you how to do it. Causal chain analysis-based systematic reviews, which analyse the working of a logic model or a theory
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Independent Media and Free Flow of Information: An Evidence Gap Map Protocol
New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2021), 58 pp.
"This report presents the protocol for a systematic search to identify and map the evidence base of impact evaluations and systematic reviews of interventions that aim to promote an independent media as a democratic institution in low- and middle-income countries. The EGM was developed by 3ie, made
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Using Big Data for Impact Evaluations
Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), 7 pp.
"Big data can contribute to the evidence base in development sectors where evaluations are often infeasible due to data issues. Given the rapidly increasing availability of big data and improving computation capacity, there is a great potential for using big data in future impact evaluations. Big da
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M&E Tools for Advocacy Work
INTRAC (2020), 7 pp.
"Many different tools and methodologies can be used to support advocacy work. Some are designed specifically for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) purposes. Others are designed to support the planning and management of advocacy interventions, but can be used or adapted for M&E purposes. CSOs often emp
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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
Deep Insights
Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp.
"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op
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