"Este manual intenta proporcionar a los administradores de proyectos y a los analistas de políticas las herramientas necesarias para evaluar el impacto de los proyectos. Está destinado a lectores con conocimientos generales de estadísticas. Para algunos de los métodos estadísticos más profundo
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s analizados, el lector es remitido a la literatura técnica sobre el tema. En el Capítulo 1 se presenta una visión general de los conceptos y métodos, en el Capítulo 2 se analizan los pasos clave y temas relacionados que hay que considerar durante la implementación, en el Capítulo 3 se ilustran diversas técnicas analíticas a través de un estudio de casos y en el Capítulo 4 se incluye un análisis de las lecciones aprendidas de un valioso conjunto de evaluaciones de “prácticas óptimas” de los proyectos de pobreza que se revisaron para este manual. Los estudios de casos, incluidos en el Anexo I, se seleccionaron de una variedad de evaluaciones realizadas por el Banco Mundial, otras agencias de donantes, instituciones de investigación y empresas consultoras privadas. Se eligieron por su rigor metodológico, en un intento por cubrir una amplia combinación de escenarios de países, tipos de proyectos y metodologías de evaluación. En los Anexos también se incluyen muestras de los principales componentes que serían necesarios al planificar cualquier evaluación de impacto: muestras de términos de referencia, un presupuesto, indicadores de impacto, un marco lógico y una matriz de análisis." (Prólogo, páginas 5-6)
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"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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al research. The same pressures as are being felt in agricultural research apply in agricultural information: new technology, in the form of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is increasing the ability to access, collect, process and generate information, but there is also pressure to justify investment, and to demonstrate results (benefits). However, while the 'information/knowledge' culture may be burgeoning due to new ICTs, neither the methodology nor the culture of information impact studies is yet fully developed. There are as yet few methodologies and applications relating to information management in developing countries, and even fewer which have been or could be applied specifically to agricultural information management. This selective review seeks to engender wider knowledge, acceptance and application of evaluation in the field of agricultural information management by showing how it has been approached in other disciplines, in agricultural research, and most recently in information science and management, with some key examples relating to information management in developing countries. Finally, to give some indication of how it works in practice, some recent examples as applied to information management in developing countries are summarised as case studies." (CTA Website Sept. 11 2007)
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"Building on the experience of many different agencies, this book provides a comprehensive discussion of the difficulties, dilemmas and opportunities of understanding the outcomes of social development programmes and projects. The book shows that while there are no easy solutions to evaluating impac
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t, a range of methods and approaches can be employed in order to provide an adequate understanding of social change. Case studies are presented of how NGO's have succeeded in evaluating these complex social processes within the constraints imposed by resources, staff skills, existing monitoring and requirements and external pressures. The book illustrates genuine, innovative attempts to bring the rhetoric of evaluating impact into the reality of ongoing development programmes." (Catalogue Intermediate Technology Publications 2000)
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