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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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Where to find outcomes of research uptake and how to use them for learning and adaptation
Manchester: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) (2022), 13 pp.
"This tool supports WIEGO programme teams in deliberately seeking to document the influence of our research, that is, outcomes our research has contributed towards. The pathways of influence of research findings are complex and unpredictable. The tool considers what we know about how research influe
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The Evaluation Process in 10 Steps: A Guideline
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2017), 42 pp.
"In order for evaluations to satisfy both the requirements of the implementing organisation and donors’ requirements, it is important that the process is properly planned and supported and that the scheduled timescale is adequate. When do I start planning? What constitutes high-quality Terms of Re
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Developmental Evaluation
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"Developmental evaluation involves long-term relationships between evaluators and project or programme staff. Evaluation is ongoing, which means that feedback can be provided on a continuous basis. Development evaluation is particularly appropriate for projects or programmes working in complex or un
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Utilisation-Focused Evaluation
INTRAC (2017), 2 pp.
"Utilisation-focused evaluations (UFEs) are based on the principle that an evaluation should be judged according to how useful it is. UFEs should be planned and implemented in a way that increases the likelihood of the findings being used. This normally means identifying the primary users of an eval
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How to Manage Gender-Responsive Evaluation: Evaluation Handbook
New York: UN Women (2015), iii, 162 pp.
"This Evaluation Handbook is a practical handbook to help those initiating, managing and/or using gender-responsive evaluations by providing direction, advice and tools for every step in the evaluation process: planning, preparation, conduct, reporting, evaluation use and follow up. The primary audi
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Field Guide for Evaluation: How to Develop an Effective Terms of Reference
Washington, DC: Pact (2014), 96 pp.
"A practical guide to managing and leading evaluation efforts, this module is designed for use in evaluations within your organization and among your partners. Increasing local capacity to conduct and manage good program evaluation is a key goal of the Results and Measurement team at Pact ... Each c
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Evaluation Reporting: A Guide to Help Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings
Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013), 18 pp.
"There are various aspects of evaluation reporting that can affect how information is used. Stakeholder needs, the evaluation purpose, and target audience should be considered when communicating results. Evaluation reporting should not only identify what, when, how, and to what extent information sh
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Utilization Focused Evaluation: A Primer for Evaluators
Penang: Southbound (2013), xii, 114 pp.
"Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to their work. The focus is on intended users. UFE does not prescribe any specific content, method, or theory. It is a guiding framework, rather than a met
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Use of Impact Evaluation Results
InterAction;Rockefeller Foundation (2012), 19 pp.
"Since impact evaluations focus on results and what contributes to results, logically there should be a greater enthusiasm for making use of the findings. Impact evaluations also tend to cost more than other types of evaluation, implying that they should command significant follow up as well. It tur
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Four Essentials for Evaluation
Washington, DC: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) (2012), 32 pp.
"When done well, evaluation for learning can help grantmakers, their grantees and their partners improve outcomes on the ground in real time. But doing it well requires that we work with key stakeholders to develop the leadership, the strategies and the systems that facilitate true learning.
1. LEAD
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Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xxii, 461 pp.
"Based on Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed 'essentials' book provides both an overall framework and concrete advice for how to conduct useful evaluations that actually get used. This book integrates both theory and practice and is not only based
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The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results
Key Guidance
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2011), xxi, 356 pp.
"The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox identifies stages in the use of outcomes and shows you how to use specific facets of existing outcome models to improve performance and achieve meaningful results. Going beyond the familiar limits of the sector, this volume also illustrates how tools and approaches lo
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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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Building Public Awareness of Development: Communicators, Educators and Evaluation
Paris: OECD Development Centre (2008), 38 pp.
"Donors and practitioners could make greater use of evaluations, and their findings, to increase the effectiveness and results of public communication, advocacy and education about global development. The first step is to understand the evaluation process and respect its rigours. The second is to ac
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Learning from Evaluations: Guidelines for Donor Agencies and Evaluators
Saarbrücken: Task Force on Evaluating Development Policy in DeGEval (2005), 38 pp.
Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice
New York; London: Guilford Press (2005), vii, 231 pp.
"What principles should guide an empowerment evaluation? And how can these principles actually be put into practice? One of the primary tasks in an empowerment evaluation (EE) is to increase the capacity of program stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs. This book presents
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Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programms
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2001), 139 pp.
"This manual is intended as an introduction to the theory and concepts of Outcome Mapping and as a guide to conducting an Outcome Mapping workshop. Although Outcome Mapping may be appropriate in various contexts, it has primarily been tested by development research organizations and programs working
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Utilization-Focused Evaluation in Africa: Evaluation Training Lectures Delivered to the Inaugural Conference of the African Evaluation Association, 13-17 September, Nairobi
Prudence Nkinda Chaiban (ed.)
Nairobi: UNICEF (1999), 46 pp.
Using the Evaluation Tool: A Survey of Conventional Wisdom and Common Practice at Sida
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (1997), 115 pp.
