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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
Deep Insights
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), iii, 155 pp.
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense
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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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Participatory Impact Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners
Medford, MA: Tufts University, Feinstein International Centre (2008), 63 pp.
"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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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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Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development: Recent Trends in Empirical Research
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2007), 51 pp.
"This paper is a peer review of journals addressing the issue of the impact of development communication in a number of development projects and programs. It provides an overview of this discipline and then discusses the evidence about the impact of development communication according to a typology
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The Impact of Media Interventions: Factors and Evidence
Reading: Gamos (2007), 27 pp.
"In this paper we will be looking at the evidence of impact from interventions in the so-called ‘traditional’ media – TV, radio and, to a much lesser extent, print – and factors contributing to that impact. By ‘media interventions’ we mean using mass-media in support of development objec
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Evaluation of Results-Based Management at UNDP
UNDP Evaluation Office (2007), 131 pp.
Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
Oxford: Oxfam (2007), 74 pp.
Perceptions and Practice: An Anthology of Impact Assessment Experience
Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2006), 186 pp.
"Contains 11 studies, mainly on information projects, each with between four and eight stories told by people involved in those studies. Each set of stories is prefaced by a summary of the study." (commbox)
Assessing community change: Development of a ‘bare foot’ impact assessment methodology
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2005), pp. 21-34
"Impact assessment is one of a variety of monitoring tools available to ensure that a community radio effectively works towards set objectives and aspirations. In Mozambique a ‘bare-foot’ impact assessment methodology has been designed, tested, revised and implemented with eight community-owned
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Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Handbook for Development Practitioners
Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), xiv, 248 pp.
"This handbook can stand alone as a guide on how to design and construct a results-based M&E system in the public sector. It can also be used in conjunction with a workshop developed at the World Bank entitled “Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Tool for Pub
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Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results
New York: UNDP Evaluation Office (2002), 140 pp.
"This publication addresses the monitoring and evaluation of development results. It is intended to support country offices in aligning their monitoring and evaluation systems with results-based management (RBM) methodology—specifically in tracking and measuring the performance of UNDP interventio
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Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and its Outcomes
Key Guides
New York: Rockefeller Foundation; Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2002), iv, 42 pp.
"For social change, a model of communication is required that is cyclical, relational and leads to an outcome of mutual change rather than one-sided, individual change. In Section 1 of this report we provide a description of such a model. The model describes a dynamic, iterative process that starts
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Guidelines for Outcome Evaluators
New York: UNDP Evaluation Office (2002), 27 pp.
"This publication, Guidelines for Evaluators, is the first in the companion series to the Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results. The Handbook provides an overall context for results-based monitoring and evaluation and reviews tools and techniques for planning and managing monitoring and
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Outcome-based evaluation
New York; London: Kluwer Academic, 2nd ed. (2002), xvi, 271 pp.
"This book is the product of 30 years of experience with program evaluation. During this time, both service recipients and educational and social programs have experienced major cultural and political shifts in service delivery philosophy, including a focus on quality, mainstreaming, deinstitutional
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Approaches to impact evaluation (assessment) in agricultural information management: Selective review of the issues, the relevant literature and some illustrative case studies
Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2000), 33 pp.
"Evaluation (or assessment) of impact is generally regarded as an essential part of the project cycle, and is already well known and widely used in many disciplines - for example, environmental and social sciences, social psychology - and there is increasing evidence of its application to agricultur
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