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Evaluating anti-corruption interventions: The state of practice

Tom Shipley

Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (2024), 73 pp.

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Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness
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Stacey L. Connaughton, Jasmine R. Linabary (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), xxvii, 320 pp.

"Sections of the book engage in critical reflection on what peacebuilding effectiveness is and who gets to decide, provide practical examples and case studies of the successes and failures of assessing peacebuilding work, and support innovative strategies and tools to move the field forward. Chapter ... more

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Ten Common Flaws in Evaluations

Howard White

Global Development Network (2023)

"Evaluations have two key functions: lesson learning and accountability. How well they can fill these tasks depends on the suitability of the evaluation design to address the evaluation questions of interest, and the quality of those evaluations. Unfortunately, many evaluations suffer from flaws whi ... more

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Evaluating German Development Cooperation

Bonn: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2023), 42 pp.

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Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice: Confronting the Culture of Silence

David M. Fetterman

New York; London: Guilford Press (2023), xiv, 171 pp.

"From the founder of empowerment evaluation (EE), a framework uniquely suited to advancing social justice causes, this book explains the theories, principles, and steps of conducting EE from scratch or within a preexisting evaluation or work plan. David M. Fetterman describes how EE enables program ... more

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Footprint Evaluation Thought Experiments: Thinking Through How to Embed Environmental Concerns Into Evaluation

E. Jane Davidson, Dugan Fraser, Patricia Rogers, Andy Rowe, Kaye Stevens

Footprint Evaluation Initiative;Better Evaluation (2022), 47 pp.

"The Footprint Evaluation Initiative aims to ensure that all evaluations consider environmental sustainability, regardless of whether this is an explicit objective of the project, policy or program being evaluated. This report describes four ‘thought experiments’ undertaken as part of this proje ... more

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A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices
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USAID (2021), v, 79 pp.

"The purpose of this review is to support education practitioners, host country government representatives, donors, implementers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, and other stakeholders in applying best practices to monitor and evaluate distance learning initiative ... more

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Machine Learning and Meta-Ethnography: Seven Steps to Synthesising 578 Evaluations Into Four Themes

Stephen Porter, Harsh Anuj, Yingjia Liu et al.

Better Evaluation (2021), 7 pp.

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Process Tracing as a Practical Evaluation Method: Comparative Learning from Six Evaluations

Alix Wadeson, Bernardo Monzani, Tom Aston

[authors] (2020), 31 pp.

"This paper presents comparative learning from the evaluation of six international development initiatives that applied various forms of Process Tracing. While these initiatives span across diverse contexts and pursued different aims, they are connected by a common thread: all six case studies centr ... more

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Leaving a Footprint: Stories of Evaluation That Made a Difference

Pablo Rodríguez Bilella, Esteban Tapella

San Juan (AR): Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ) (2018), 186 pp.

"The evaluation stories revealed in the project illustrate the value of a positive approach. They emphasize the evidence of what works and/or might work and is worthy of being continued, enlarged or modified. This can be contrasted with evaluations that are focused mainly on the technical problems a ... nd deficiencies present in most interventions. This type of approach has been shown to be highly relevant in getting beyond defensive and suspicious attitudes, and instead promoting a constructive focus on possible solutions. For example, the evaluation of the initiative Strengthening the Abilities of Indigenous Women to Set up and Have a Bearing on the Implementation of Public Policies (Colombia) validated many of the approaches adopted, and indicated the potential that could be developed by having an additional training to the objectives outlined originally in the project. In addition to that, in evaluations with a positive approach, evaluators usually develop a close relationship with the actors of the intervention, understanding them and supporting them. The evaluators' task in these cases is not limited to indicating what to be modified. Many times local actors regard this as evaluators demonstrating ‘commitment’ to the project and its future. Participation of the actors in the collection and use of the evaluation data is a powerful way of including users and beneficiaries. This allows participants to get involved and understand the data better. An evaluation characterised by a collaborative approach leads participants to take responsibility for the evaluation and then for the change and transformation that follows. In this way, active participation in the evaluation process helps to develop better understanding of evaluation and contributes to commitment and use. This is illustrated by the participatory evaluation in Costa Rica, in which regional technical teams were involved and deeply interested in getting to know how the evaluated program worked in their area. In contrast, the higher authorities limited their participation to approving the evaluation. In this way, recommendations at regional and local levels were applied soon after the evaluation finished, whereas general recommendations —dependent upon the higher authorities— have not yet been applied." (Introduction, page 21-22) more

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Dejar huella: Historias de evaluaciones que marcaron la diferencia

Esteban Tapella

San Juan (AR): Editorial Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ) (2018), 188 pp.

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Spuren hinterlassen: Evaluierungen, die einen Unterschied machen

Pablo Rodríguez Bilella, Esteban Tapella

San Juan: Editorial Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ) (2018), 186 pp.

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Evidence-Based Principles to Guide Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation: Technical Report

Lyn M. Shulha, Elizabeth Whitmore, J. Bradley Cousins, Nathalie Gilbert, Hind Al Hudib

Ottawa: University of Ottawa, Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services (2015), iii, 39 pp.

"This technical report introduces a set of evidence-based principles to guide evaluation practice in contexts where evaluation knowledge is collaboratively produced by evaluators and stakeholders. The data from this study evolved in four phases: two pilot phases exploring the desirability of develop ... more

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Planning Evaluability Assessments: A Synthesis of the Literature with Recommendations

Rick Davies

London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFIP) (2013), iv, 48 pp.

"[...] Amongst those agencies the following OECD DAC definition of evaluability is widely accepted and has been applied within this report: “The extent to which an activity or project can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion”. Eighteen recommendations about the use of Evaluability Ass ... more

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Ex-ante-Evaluation: Ein Planungsansatz für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Stefan Silvestrini

Münster et al.: Waxmann (2011), 295 pp.

"Ziel des Buches ist es, durch die systematische Verknüpfung des Gegenstandsbereichs verschiedener Analyseansätze einen ganzheitlichen und theoretisch fundierten Bewertungsrahmen sowie einen methodisch ausgearbeiteten Verfahrensvorschlag für die Ex-ante-Evaluation von Programmen zu vermitteln. Im ... more

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Evaluating Peace Operations

Paul F. Diehl, Daniel Druckman

Boulder, Col.: Rienner (2010), ix, 234 pp.

"There has been a great deal written on why peace operations succeed or fail [...] But how are those judgments reached? By what criteria is success defined? Success for whom? Paul Diehl and Daniel Druckman explore the complexities of evaluating peace operation outcomes, providing an original, detail ... more

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Country-Led Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: Better Evidence, Better Policies, Better Development Results

Marco Segone (ed.)

Geneva: UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS (2009), 312 pp.

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Experiencias en evaluación participativa

Maria José Garcia Oramas, Sara Ruiz Vallejo

Xalapa (MX): Secretaría de Educación de Veracruz (2009), 85 pp.

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Evaluation in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Band 1: Systemanalysen. Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung – BMZ

Axel Borrmann, Reinhard Stockmann

Münster et al.: Waxmann (2009), 213 pp.

"Die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) ist in Deutschland das Politikfeld mit der längsten Evaluationstradition. Alle größeren deutschen EZ-Organisationen nutzen das Instrument der Evaluation – quantitativ und qualitativ jedoch in sehr unterschiedlichem Maße. Diese zwei Bände umfassende Studie ... more

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Evaluation: Ein systematisches Handbuch

Thomas Widmer, Wolfgang Beywl, Carlo Fabian

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2009), 634 pp.

"Evaluation als Instrument zur systematischen und transparenten Bewertung von Projekten, Massnahmen, Programmen, Gesetzen und anderen Gegenständen hat in den letzten zwei Dekaden in Kontinentaleuropa stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Evaluationstätigkeiten werden auf der Angebots- und Nachfrageseite pr ... more

Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness Inspiring Practice Top Insights

A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices Key Guidance

Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness
Inspiring Practice

Top Insights

A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices
Key Guidance