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Considerations and Practical Applications for Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Evaluations
Rome: CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service (IAES) (2025), 42 pp.
" Guided by the CGIAR-wide Evaluation Framework, integrating AI tools requires a governance approach to balance innovation with ethical responsibility, ensuring transparency, fairness, accountability, and inclusivity. This Technical Note encourages and guides CGIAR evaluators to ethically explore, n
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Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation
Oxford: Routledge (2025), 330 pp.
"Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the landscape of program evaluation will be redefined by artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies. In an era where digital technologies a
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Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness
Deep Insights
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
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Evaluation Terms of Reference
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 22 pp.
"This guidance note covers Terms of Reference (ToR) guidance for all levels and types of evaluation outlined in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy, including baseline studies and midterm reviews. While the emphasis is on developing ToRs for evaluation purposes, the ToR guidance can apply to o
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Ex Post Evaluation
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 19 pp.
"Ex post evaluations and other post-project studies undertaken by multilateral and bilateral development agencies, as well as other international actors, vary widely in their scope and approach. This guidance note explains how ex post evaluations at the Adaptation Fund work in terms of approach and
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Commissioning and Managing an Evaluation
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 37 pp.
"Commissioning an evaluation and managing an evaluation are different but interrelated processes. Commissioning an evaluation encompasses the activities to initiate a Fund evaluation, largely focused on developing the evaluation's Terms of Reference (ToR) and recruiting and contracting the evaluator
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Addressing Environmental Sustainability Through the OECD DAC Criteria for Evaluation of Development Assistance
Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 9 pp.
"This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and monitoring. These criteria are widely used in inter
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"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
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Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice: Confronting the Culture of Silence
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
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Footprint Evaluation Thought Experiments: Thinking Through How to Embed Environmental Concerns Into Evaluation
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
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"The guideline provides a roadmap, flagging at which points in the process of commissioning, implementing and managing evaluations CEH-related considerations could and should be taken into account. As such, it covers the steps involved in preparing for an evaluation; developing the terms of referenc
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M&E of Capacity Strengthening
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Capacity strengthening is a process in which people and/or organisations are provided with external support to enhance and maintain their capacity over time. It can be a complex process, involving multiple actors, methods and influences. Monitoring and evaluation should always be designed to suppor
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A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices
Key Guides
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
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Tools for M&E of Capacity Strenghtening
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Changes arising from capacity strengthening work can sometimes be measured directly. A range of tools and methodologies can also be used to help assess capacity change. Most of these were not designed specifically with capacity strengthening in mind, but can easily be adapted for the purpose. CSOs
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Organisational Assessment Tools
INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.
"Organisational assessment (OA) tools are designed to assess organisational capacity, and plan capacity development initiatives. Sometimes they are used for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) purposes as well. There are two main ways of using OA tools for M&E. One is to develop an action plan based on
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Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Methods and Frameworks
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2021), vi, 230 pp.
"In the emerging fields of religious and interreligious peacebuilding, the question of monitoring and evaluation is a challenging, yet necessary process. The need to develop comprehensive yet fitting evaluation models for religious and interreligious peacebuilding is not only important for donor int
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