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Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators
Simone van Vugt; Seerp Wigboldus; Bob Williams; Jim Woodhill (contrib.)
Wageningen: Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research Centre (2011), 118 pp.
"Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little done to bring about change within organisations. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations contribute to empowering stakeholde
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Impact Evaluation in Practice
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.
"This book off ers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in impact evalu
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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
New York: Guilford Press (2011), xxi, 373 pp.
"Developmental evaluation offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a developmental evaluation framework. Patton draws
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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xx, 239 pp.
"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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Agency-Based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice
Thousand Oaks: Sage (2010), 323 pp.
"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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Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy: Companion to the Advocacy Toolkit
UNICEF (2010), 48 pp.
"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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Developing M&E Systems for Complex Organisations: A Methodology
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
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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
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Managing and Implementing an Evaluation: Guidelines and Tools for Evaluation Managers
Baltimore; Washington, DC: Catholic Relief Services (CRS);American Red Cross (2008), vi, 64 pp.
Preparing for an Evaluation: Guidelines and Tools for Pre-Evaluation Planning
Baltimore; Washington, DC: Catholic Relief Services (CRS);American Red Cross (2008), v, 52 pp.
Leitfaden Wirkungsorientierung in den Projekten und Programmen der Welthungerhilfe: Teil I: Hintergründe und Definitionen
Bonn: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (2008), 19 pp.
"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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Are We There Yet? A Communications Evaluation Guide
Communications Network;Asibey Consulting (2008), 37 pp.
"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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Essentials for Excellence: Research, Monitoring and Evaluating Strategic Communication for Behaviour and Social Change with Special Reference to the Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza/pandemic Influenza
Suva: UNICEF (2008), iv, 111 pp.
"Essentials for Excellence is not comprehensive but it does equip you with sufficient know-how to be able to plan and manage useful RM&E for your AI/PI strategic communication. For those seeking further information, web-links and key references are included. The guide is aimed at users who want stra
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Wirkungsorientiertes Monitoring: Leitfaden für die Technische Zusammenarbeit
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 38 pp.
"Hauptfunktion des wirkungsorientierten Monitoring ist es, die Steuerung von Entwicklungsmaßnahmen zu unterstützen sowie den Dialog über die eingeschlagene Strategie im Management- bzw. Projektteam und deren Aufsichtsgremien anzuregen – insbesondere im Hinblick auf die regelmäßige Operationsp
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Qualitative Evaluation: Der Einstieg in die Praxis
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2., aktual. Aufl. (2008), 119 pp.
"Am Beispiel eines von den Autoren realisierten Evaluationsprojektes führt dieses Buch in die Planung und praktische Durchführung von qualitativer Evaluation ein. Anhand einer detaillierten Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung werden die Bestandteile eines Evaluationsprozesses von der Gegenstandsbestimm
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Encouraging Effective Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Towards DAC Guidance
Paris: OECD (2007), 102 pp.
Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs: Indicative Principles and Standards
Washington, DC: World Bank (2007), 114 pp.
Evaluación de proyectos de desarrollo local: Enfoques, métodos y procedimientos
Lima: Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo (DESCO) (2007), 156 pp.
"Este libro recupera parte de lo ya escrito y dicho sobre la evaluación en diferentes textos y espacios de reflexión y de diálogo. Si se nos pregunta sobre su aporte diríamos que, sumada a la convencional y necesaria presentación de argumentos conceptuales y herramientas metodológicas que sust
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A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy
Baltimore: Annie E. Casey Foundation (2007), 32 pp.
"The overall purpose of this guide is twofold. To help grantmakers think about and talk about measurement of advocacy and policy, this guide puts forth a framework for naming outcomes associated with advocacy and policy work as well as directions for evaluation design. The framework is intended to p
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