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The Evaluation Handbook: An Evaluator's Companion
Top Insights
New York: Guilford Press (2025), xvii, 606 pp.
"This pragmatic evaluator's companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses. With contributions from skilled experts, the Handbook has a unique focus on the c
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Evaluation Essentials: Methods for Conducting Sound Research
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2nd ed. (2025), x, 198 pp.
"This nuts-and-bolts introduction to program evaluation is also applicable to evaluation of policies and evaluation of organizational performance. It is rich with over 40 examples from public policy, public health, non-profit management, social work, arts management, education, international assista
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Program Evaluation Theory and Practice: A Comprehensive Guide
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2025), xxii, 631 pp.
"Covering both the theory and practice of evaluation in one engaging volume, this leading text is now in a revised third edition. It features additional evaluation approaches, such as the Indigenous paradigm; new examples, ranging from small to large and multi-site evaluations; and more. Instructors
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Evaluation Essentials from A to Z
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2025), xiii, 330 pp.
"loved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis, visualizing qualitative data with software, and mo
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Final Evaluation
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 29 pp.
"This guidance note outlines what is Final Evaluation at the Adaptation Fund, when does it occur, who is involved, and how to plan and implement them in accordance with the Fund’s Evaluation Policy. The accompanying annexes provide a general checklist for planning (Annex 1), common analytical appr
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Mid-Term Review
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 27 pp.
"This guidance notes outlines what is an MTR, when does it occur, who is involved, and how to plan and implement project MTRs. The accompanying annexes provide a general checklist for planning, illustrative inception and MTR report outlines, an illustrative evaluation matrix, and an illustrative man
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Evaluation Reporting
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 21 pp.
"The purpose of this guidance note is to support the preparation of evaluation reports, which is key in conducting reliable, useful and ethical evaluations, in accordance with the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy. It provides a foundation for reporting for all levels and types of evaluations ou
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Inception Report
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 17 pp.
"The remainder of this guidance note is structured by five intuitive questions answering what inception reports are, what their benefits are, and when and how should they be written. Annex 1 provides an outline and checklist of the recommended sections for Fund Evaluation Inception Reports, and Anne
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Evaluation Terms of Reference
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 22 pp.
"This guidance note covers Terms of Reference (ToR) guidance for all levels and types of evaluation outlined in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy, including baseline studies and midterm reviews. While the emphasis is on developing ToRs for evaluation purposes, the ToR guidance can apply to o
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Evaluation Principles
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 18 pp.
"The evaluation principles identify the Adaptation Fund’s values, norms, and global best practice to guide evaluation practice. The Evaluation Policy introduces seven evaluation principles (see Figure 2) to reinforce the Fund’s values, niche, and the Paris Agreement to guide evaluation practice.
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Evaluation Budgeting
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 24 pp.
"This guidance note covers budgeting guidance for all levels and types of evaluation activity outlined in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy. Because these activities include baseline studies that contribute to both evaluation and monitoring,1 this guidance note may be useful when budgeting f
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Commissioning and Managing an Evaluation
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 37 pp.
"Commissioning an evaluation and managing an evaluation are different but interrelated processes. Commissioning an evaluation encompasses the activities to initiate a Fund evaluation, largely focused on developing the evaluation's Terms of Reference (ToR) and recruiting and contracting the evaluator
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Handbook on Evaluation
Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2024), xi, 408 pp.
"In this Handbook, Reinhard Stockmann and other esteemed experts in the field provide a systematic and comprehensive exploration into the planning, process, implementation and utilisation of evaluations. Covering the process and individual steps of evaluation in detail, in chronological order and in
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Impact Framework for Media Projects. Toolkit
International Media Support (IMS);Local Media for Democracy Project;European Federation of Journalists (EFJ);Journalismfund Europe;Centre of Media Pluralism (2024), 13 pp.
"The impact framework is a set of tools and guidelines that helps to define targets for, track, and assess the impact of activities under the supported media projects in a clear and organised way; it can also be used for other media projects. Its methodology embraces a user-centric approach, links p
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UNESCO Evaluation Manual
UNESCO (2023), 62 pp.
Addressing Environmental Sustainability Through the OECD DAC Criteria for Evaluation of Development Assistance
Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 9 pp.
"This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and monitoring. These criteria are widely used in inter
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Sustainability-inclusive evaluation: Why we need it and how to do it: A Footprint Evaluation Guide
Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 62 pp.
"The guidance is intended to support people who are planning, managing or conducting evaluations, especially within national and sub-national governments, to include environmental sustainability, even when this is not a stated objective of the program or policy. Environmental sustainability includes
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Cost-Inclusive Evaluation: Planning It, Doing It, Using It
New York; London: Guilford Press (2023), xii, 299 pp.
"Is a given treatment, intervention, or program worth it? How can a program do more or better with less? Evaluating the costs of a program can be the missing link between a superficial evaluation and one that will get changes made and funding delivered. In accessible language and without complex for
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Handbuch zur Evaluation: Eine praktische Handlungsanleitung
Key Guidance
Münster: Waxmann (2022), 516 pp.
"Ziel dieses Buches ist es, kompakt und nutzerfreundlich Grundkenntnisse für die Planung, Durchführung und Anwendung von Evaluationen zu vermitteln. Hierfür greift es auf die inhaltlichen Konzepte und Unterlagen zahlreicher Kurse zur Evaluation im In- und Ausland zurück. Das Buch richtet sich an
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Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Key Guidance
Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage, 5th ed. (2022), xxiv, 406 pp.
"The Fifth Edition of the bestselling 'Utilization-Focused Evaluation' provides expert, detailed advice on conducting evaluations that promote effective use of the findings. Chock full of useful pedagogy, this book presents Michael Quinn Patton's distinctive opinions based on more than forty years o
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