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"This report outlines an approach for developing guidance on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. It draws on a broad document review and interviews with key experts, and has been developed in consultation with the DAC Networks on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation ... more
"Enhancing citizen voice and accountability has increased in importance for donors since the 1990s. This paper reviews existing literature and the strategy and policy documents of seven DAC donors in order to contribute to the design of an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of these do ... more
"This paper discussed the possibility to improve public communication campaign theory, by making use of data obtained through mass media health communication campaign evaluations. The idea of an ‘engineering’ approach to campaign design, where theory and scientific findings are systematically us ... more
"The purpose of the manual is to introduce peacebuilding practitioners to the concepts, tools, and methods needed to incorporate better design, monitoring, and evaluation practices into peacebuilding programming. As an introductory volume, the target audience is front-line peacebuilding practitioner ... more
"This Praxis Paper offers a brief overview of current thinking and practice in relation to the impact assessment of organisational capacity building interventions. The paper highlights some of the conceptual, methodological and practical challenges (issues of clarity, power and culture, among others ... more
"Der Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit hat seit seinem Aufkommen den Anspruch an die entwicklungspolitische Zusammenarbeit enorm erhöht und den Fokus auf die Wirksamkeit einzelner Projekte und Programme gesetzt. Ex-post Evaluationen gewinnen von daher mehr und mehr an Bedeutung. Vor diesem Hintergrund zei ... more
"This working paper was conceived to stimulate debate on new trends in the evaluation function within the Post-Paris new Aid architecture and the UN Reform, and to explore the status of the evaluation function in CIS countries. Though this paper is not a technical manual or handbook, the authors mad ... more
"The perspective that informs this important book is that every evaluation of a capacity development effort should itself contribute to the capacity development effort and ultimately to the organization’s performance. This is a revolutionary idea in evaluation. With the idea have come the question ... more

Evaluation for Action: Learning from Radios Populares

In: Give Quality a Better Chance: Management and Evaluation
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2002), pp. 25-31
"During the last six years, the Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) carried out two main investigations on popular radio in Latin America: on the one hand an external evaluation (in 1996/97) of the strengths and weaknesses of ALER's strategies and lines of action, and on th ... more
"To date, no evaluation frameworks are specifically targeted at evaluating partnership relationships, as opposed to partnership programmatic outcomes. Following a discussion and definition of partnership, its defining features, and value-added, the paper proposes a framework for assessing partnershi ... more
"L’évaluation, enfin considérée comme un outil irremplaçable pour améliorer la qualité des actions, devient une pratique courante dans les milieux du développement. Mais elle reste un exercice délicat, et génère souvent plus de frustrations que de progrès. Comment en accroître l’effi ... more
"In diesem Lehrbuch werden die wichtigsten Theorien, Methoden und Entwicklungen der Evaluationsforschung in Deutschland, Europa und den USA beschrieben. Außerdem wird der Stand der Forschung für ausgewählte Politikfelder beschrieben: Forschungs-/Technologiepolitik, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Verwaltung ... more
"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 ... more
"The tools and tips of this handbook go beyond measuring the impact of programmes, products and services by integrating techniques of formative assessment, in which the assessment team helps the organization become more effective in meeting its goals. The model is flexible and adaptable to any type ... more
"The focus of this book is on evaluation theory rather than on practice, even though we do suggest implications for practice. We believe theory is used to justify and inform practice, so the theory makes a difference to practice over the long run. And practice can inform theory, as it has done many ... more