"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
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I). The handbook also details challenges and goals in other realms of evaluation, including monitoring and evaluation, operational evaluation, and mixed-methods approaches combining quantitative and qualitative analyses. It is designed to put theory on evaluation methods and practices into practice in a hands-on fashion for practitioners, especially researchers new to the evaluation field and policymakers involved in implementing development programmes worldwide." (Publisher description)
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"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
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nd organizations to describe the effectiveness of their services and programs. Students will gain an understanding of the political and social context and pressures in which a program is developed, implemented and evaluated. This book offers a practice-oriented approach to evaluation. While many program evaluation methods texts often add a or brief sections that describe organizational and political factors, this book begins with the context of an agency-based evaluation and describes the method within that context. Students will gain a more complete understanding of this contextual challenge and will learn techniques for operating in the face of these challenges." (Publisher description)
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"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
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n, and knowledge management; aeventeen data collection tools for measuring advocacy outputs, outcomes and impacts; dour case studies from Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mexico, Tajikistan and Iceland; following up with next steps. This is the full version of Chapter 4 in UNICEF’s Advocacy Toolkit." (Page 1)
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"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
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tries, support partnerships and collaboration on joint evaluations, and increase development partners’ use of each others’ evaluation findings [...] This document is structured in line with a typical evaluation process: defining purpose, planning, designing, implementing, reporting, and learning from and using evaluationresults. The Standards begin with some overall considerations to keep in mind throughout the evaluation process." (Introduction)
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"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
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2002. It was a breakthrough in driving the effective application of the results-based management approach in programming and performance management. The Handbook recognizes that planning, monitoring and evaluation require a focus on nationally owned development priorities and results, and should reflect the guiding principles of national ownership, capacity development and human development. Globally, there has been a significant shift away from the project approach in favour of programme and national approaches." (Preface, page III)
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"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
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he technical issues that need to be considered when designing M&E systems for complex organisations. The information in Part Two may be useful to M&E system designers whether or not the basic methodology in Part One is followed." (Page 1)
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"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
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al organizations. It should serve as a valuable guide in evaluation education and training as well as in practical development work." (Back cover)
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"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
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vocates are embracing evaluation as a critical part of their work. The main barrier preventing more organizations from using evaluation is a lack of familiarity with how to think about and design evaluations of advocacy efforts that are useful, manageable, and resource-efficient. Even knowing where to start can be a challenge. This tool was developed to help address that gap in knowledge. It guides users through four basic steps of advocacy evaluation planning." (Page 3)
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"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
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ultants, government and non-government organisations, community groups, students, natural resource management organisations, industry bodies and academics. The guide will enable them to evaluate and report on program outcomes and continually improve their programs based on lessons learned through participatory evaluation approaches. Performance story evaluation is useful for both internal and external evaluations and learning. Performance story reports are effective for reporting annually on achievements from one year to the next." (Introduction, page 5)
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"Our intention in producing Success and Learning Stories is to provide readers with a document that helps them respond to Food for Peace’s (FFP’s) original request for short stories as part of their regular reporting requirements. The module provides brief guidance on how to write good impact st
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ories that will address the needs of a number of audiences, including FFP. Underlying the module is a desire to improve the learning associated with the human impact of project implementation." (Preface)
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"Teil I erläutert Begriffe und Hintergründe wirkungsorientierter Projektplanung und verortet Wirkungsorientierung im Projektzyklus der Welthungerhilfe. Teil II stellt eine praxisorientierte Handreichung bereit, in der das wirkungsorientierte Vorgehen in den einzelnen Projektphasen Schritt für Sch
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ritt anhand eines konkreten Projektbeispiels erläutert wird. Mögliche Methoden, die – in Abhängigkeit vom Projekttyp – bei der Durchführung des jeweiligen Schrittes angewandt werden können, sind nur aufgeführt, aber nicht im Einzelnen näher erläutert. Teil III enthält eine Sammlung von Instrumenten und Methoden zur Wirkungsorientierung und benennt Vorteile und Grenzen der jeweiligen Werkzeuge. Die Auswahl basiert zum überwiegenden Teil auf den Erfahrungen, die in den Projekten der Welthungerhilfe gemacht wurden." (Seite 4)
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"This guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector. Other than in some health, nutrition, and water interventions in which indicators of project performance sho
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uld relate to international standards, for many interventions there are no ‘gold standards’ for measuring project impact. For example, the Sphere handbook has no clear standards for food security or livelihoods interventions. This guide aims to bridge this gap by outlining a tried and tested approach to measuring the impact of livelihoods projects. The guide does not attempt to provide a set of standards or indicators or blueprint for impact assessment, but a broad and flexible framework which can be adapted to different contexts and project interventions. Consistent with this, the proposed framework does not aim to provide a rigid or detailed step by step formula, or set of tools to carry out project impact assessments, but describes an eight stage approach, and presents examples of tools which may be adapted to different contexts. One of the objectives of the guide is to demonstrate how PIA can be used to overcome some of the inherent weaknesses in conventional humanitarian monitoring evaluation and impact assessment approaches, such as; the emphasis on measuring process as opposed to real impact, the emphasis on external as opposed to community based indicators of impact, and how to overcome the issue of weak or non-existent baselines. The guide also aims to demonstrate and provide examples of how participatory methods can be used to overcome the challenge of attributing impact or change to actual project activities. The guide will also demonstrate how data collected from the systematic use of participatory tools can be presented numerically, and can give representative results and provide evidence based data on project impact." (Introduction, page 6)
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"This guide helps you gather input at the beginning of your activities to shape your communication strategy. It also gives you the tools to monitor progress and make corrections during implementation. It was not designed as a means for looking back on past work to determine if it was successful. Ins
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tead, the idea is to prepare up front and evaluate as you go along, so that you may adjust your tactics to ensure success. This guide is an evaluation strategy tool – not a communication planning tool. It will be most useful for those who already have a communication plan in place with clear objectives, messages, strategies and tactics. However, even if you are still in the beginning stages of designing a communication plan, it is never too early to start thinking about evaluation." (About this guide, page 1)
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