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Evaluation of Citizens' Voice and Accountability: Review of the Literature and Donor Approaches Report
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2007), xii, 60 pp.
"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
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Measuring Democratic Governance: A Framework for Selecting Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Indicators
Key Guides
New York: UNDP (2006), 50 pp.
Perceptions and Practice: An Anthology of Impact Assessment Experience
Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2006), 186 pp.
"Contains 11 studies, mainly on information projects, each with between four and eight stories told by people involved in those studies. Each set of stories is prefaced by a summary of the study." (commbox)
Guidance for Managing Joint Evaluations
Paris: OECD (2006), 32 pp.
Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Programs
Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground; Alliance for Peacebuilding; United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2006), 228 pp.
"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
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Conducting In-Depth Interviews: A Guide for Designing and Conducting In-Depth Interviews for Evaluation Input
Watertown: Pathfinder International (2006), 12 pp.
"The primary advantage of in-depth interviews is that they provide much more detailed information than what is available through other data collection methods, such as surveys. They also may provide a more relaxed atmosphere in which to collect information—people may feel more comfortable having a
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Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming: A Users Guide
Key Guides
New York: UNDP (2006), 32 pp.
"This is a practically oriented Guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes for UNDP COs. The Guide contains separate sections on different aspects relating to the development and use of indicators across the key elements of human rights programming. The Guide sum
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The 'Most Significant Change' (MSC) Technique: A Guide to its Use
Cambridge (UK); Hastings (AU): [authors] (2005), 104 pp.
"This publication is aimed at organisations, community groups, students and academics who wish to use MSC to help monitor and evaluate their social change programs and projects, or to learn more about how it can be used. The technique is applicable in many different sectors, including agriculture, e
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Assessing community change: Development of a ‘bare foot’ impact assessment methodology
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2005), pp. 21-34
"Impact assessment is one of a variety of monitoring tools available to ensure that a community radio effectively works towards set objectives and aspirations. In Mozambique a ‘bare-foot’ impact assessment methodology has been designed, tested, revised and implemented with eight community-owned
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Joint Evaluations: Recent Experiences, Lessons Learned and Options for the Future
Paris: OECD (2005), 117 pp.
"Ethnography is a form of research that can give grant makers — and, often, grantees — a close, nuanced, and evolving look at an organization, a culture, or a process of change. Trained as participant observers, ethnographers work from a vantage point that is both inside and outside the object o
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Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Handbook for Development Practitioners
Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), xiv, 248 pp.
"This handbook can stand alone as a guide on how to design and construct a results-based M&E system in the public sector. It can also be used in conjunction with a workshop developed at the World Bank entitled “Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Tool for Pub
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Evaluation der Nachhaltigkeit von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Zur Notwendigkeit angemessener Konzepte und Methoden
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2004), 290 pp.
"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
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"The purposes of this checklist are to guide evaluators in determining when qualitative methods are appropriate for an evaluative inquiry and factors to consider (1) to select qualitative approaches that are particularly appropriate for a given evaluation’s expected uses and answer the evaluation
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Evaluating an Information Project: A Letter to a Project Manager
The Hague; Wageningen: International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2003), 47 pp.
"This is a practical guide to evaluation and impact assessment of information projects, written in the form of an informal letter to a project manager. It does not elaborate on theory but proposes nine "how-to" steps instead. Short and to the point, it includes worksheets for use by managers and oth
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