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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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Program Evaluation Theory and Practice: A Comprehensive Guide
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2025), xxii, 631 pp.
"Covering both the theory and practice of evaluation in one engaging volume, this leading text is now in a revised third edition. It features additional evaluation approaches, such as the Indigenous paradigm; new examples, ranging from small to large and multi-site evaluations; and more. Instructors
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The Evaluation Handbook: An Evaluator's Companion
Deep Insights
New York: Guilford Press (2025), xvii, 606 pp.
"This pragmatic evaluator's companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses. With contributions from skilled experts, the Handbook has a unique focus on the c
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Evaluation Essentials: Methods for Conducting Sound Research
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2nd ed. (2025), x, 198 pp.
"This nuts-and-bolts introduction to program evaluation is also applicable to evaluation of policies and evaluation of organizational performance. It is rich with over 40 examples from public policy, public health, non-profit management, social work, arts management, education, international assista
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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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Evolution of Program Evaluation: A Historical Analysis of Leading Theorists’ Views and Influences
Education Quarterly Reviews, volume 8, issue 1 (2025), pp. 142-155
"Program evaluation has undergone significant evolution, shaped by diverse theoretical perspectives and influential scholars. This study provides a historical analysis of leading theorists’ views and their impact on the field, tracing key developments from early accountability-focused models to co
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Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change
Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2025), pp. 255 - 280
"How should we measure the impact of investigative journalism? Media scholars and practitioners have turned their attention towards understanding the causal effect of media reports on a range of social, political and economic outcomes. Their interest has been spurred by the increased availability of
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Evaluation Essentials from A to Z
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2025), xiii, 330 pp.
"loved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis, visualizing qualitative data with software, and mo
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Real-Time Evaluations
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 21 pp.
"The purpose of this guidance note is to support the planning and implementation of fit-for purpose project real-time evaluations (RTEs) in accordance with the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy. The intended audience for this guidance note is people who plan and manage Fund evaluation activities
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How Do We Know What Works in Preventing Violent Extremism? Evidence and Trends in Evaluation from 14 Countries
Berlin: Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) (2024), 70 pp.
"In response to high-profile attacks by violent extremists, the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) has drawn increasing attention and funding since the early 2000s. Today, countries in all regions across the globe have put in place dedicated policies and measures to prevent
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"The impact framework is a set of tools and guidelines that helps to define targets for, track, and assess the impact of activities under the supported media projects in a clear and organised way; it can also be used for other media projects. Its methodology embraces a user-centric approach, links p
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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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Inception Report
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 17 pp.
"The remainder of this guidance note is structured by five intuitive questions answering what inception reports are, what their benefits are, and when and how should they be written. Annex 1 provides an outline and checklist of the recommended sections for Fund Evaluation Inception Reports, and Anne
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Final Evaluation
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 29 pp.
"This guidance note outlines what is Final Evaluation at the Adaptation Fund, when does it occur, who is involved, and how to plan and implement them in accordance with the Fund’s Evaluation Policy. The accompanying annexes provide a general checklist for planning (Annex 1), common analytical appr
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Evaluation Budgeting
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 24 pp.
"This guidance note covers budgeting guidance for all levels and types of evaluation activity outlined in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy. Because these activities include baseline studies that contribute to both evaluation and monitoring, this guidance note may be useful when budgeting fo
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Evaluation Principles
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 18 pp.
"The evaluation principles identify the Adaptation Fund’s values, norms, and global best practice to guide evaluation practice. The Evaluation Policy introduces seven evaluation principles (see Figure 2) to reinforce the Fund’s values, niche, and the Paris Agreement to guide evaluation practice.
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Evaluation Criteria
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 16 pp.
"This guidance note elaborates the nine evaluation criteria introduced in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy. The guidance note will be most helpful to those who are preparing, commissioning, managing, or conducting a Fund evaluative activity (Figure 1) contracted by a Fund Implementing Entit
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"The evaluations point to several dimensions of the strategic significance of joint work. Programmatically, joint programmes enable a more multidimensional and holistic approach to addressing gender inequality. They enhance the catalytic role of the UN by increasing the visibility of and advocacy on
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Mid-Term Review
Washington, DC: Adaptation Fund, Technical Evaluation Reference Group (AF-TERG) (2024), 27 pp.
"This guidance notes outlines what is an MTR, when does it occur, who is involved, and how to plan and implement project MTRs. The accompanying annexes provide a general checklist for planning, illustrative inception and MTR report outlines, an illustrative evaluation matrix, and an illustrative man
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