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Assessing the quality of developmental evaluations at UNFPA
New York: UNFPA (2020), [80 pp.]
"The purpose of this guidance is to clarify the concept of quality in developmental evaluations managed by UNFPA. It is intended to increase the understanding of UNFPA evaluation staff, external evaluation consultants, and those contracted to carry out quality assessment of UNFPA developmental evalu
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Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria: Using a Text-Message Survey to Assess Radio Programs
RAND Corporation (2020), 32 pp.
"Using a randomized encouragement design, we assigned 2,064 people to listen to either 'Ina Mafita' or to a control program (professional soccer matches) each week over the course of two months. Recruitment and engagement were conducted remotely via short message service (short message system [SMS]
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Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Ottawa: Oxfam Canada (2020), 8 pp.
Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
New York: Routledge, 9th ed. (2019), viii, 333 pp.
"This text provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address those components, and the procedures to follow when conducting evaluations. Different models and approaches are paired with practical techniques,
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Results-Based Management Principles and Standards: The 3+5 Framework for Self-Assessment
New York City: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2019), 30 pp.
"The 3+5 framework consists of three core RBM principles plus five supporting principles. Each principle has an associated set of standards that capture the essential elements of RBM for generating and using results information. The primary focus of the 3+5 framework is to enhance the availability o
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Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
Key Guides
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 8th ed. (2019), xviii, 342 pp.
"Evaluation: A Systematic Approach is the best-selling comprehensive introduction to the field of program evaluation, covering the range of evaluation research activities used in appraising the design, implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency of social programs. Evaluation domains are presented
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Guía práctica y herramientas para el impacto: Del arte al impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 237 pp.
"El objetivo de esta guía va más allá de presentar herramientas y recursos, pretende crear comunidad. Igual que sucede con el proceso de evaluación, vimos una oportunidad para aprender cómo se produce el impacto y hacer un seguimiento de cómo las películas están catalizando el cambio social.
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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 381 pp.
"This guide is about more than just tools and resources, it’s about building community. As with the process of evaluation, we saw an opportunity to learn about how impact happens and to track how films are catalysing social change. That’s the impetus behind the case studies that make up our Impa
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Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2nd ed. (2019), x, 318 pp.
"Process-tracing in social science is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make strong inferences about how a cause (or set of causes) contributes to producing an outcome. In this extensively revised and updated edition, Derek Beach and
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Press Freedom and the Global State of Democracy Indices
Stockholm: International IDEA (2019), 11 pp.
"Significant advances in Freedom of Expression and Media Integrity, as measured in the GSoD Indices, have been achieved in the last four decades. Citizens around the world are today more able to enjoy the freedom to openly discuss political issues, and to have access to a diverse and critical media,
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O guia de campo: Kit der ferramentas para o impacto. Da arte ao impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 238 pp.
"Nós oferecemos ideias e abordagens para que você não tenha que lidar com um obstáculo que alguém já ultrapassou e, com isso, concentrar-se nos desafios próprios de seu projeto. Disponibilizamos todas as nossas colaborações, conversas, acordos e desentendimentos com equipes de filmagem incr
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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact [in Arabic]
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 238 pp.
The Effectiveness of Using Entertainment Education Narratives to Promote Safer Sexual Behaviors of Youth: A Meta-Analysis, 1985-2017
Plos One, volume 14, issue 2: e0209969 (2019), 14 pp.
"Risky sexual behaviors are associated with the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies, both major health concerns for youth worldwide. This review studies the effectiveness of narrated mass media programs in promoting safer sexual practices among youth in de
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Aggregation and Summarisation
INTRAC (2019), 7 pp.
"CSOs sometimes need to summarise or aggregate information across multiple interventions. This can be a difficult and challenging task, especially for large non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in many different countries and/or sectors. Summarisation and aggregation can be achieved through
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Being an Evaluator: Your Practical Guide to Evaluation
Key Guides
New York; London: Guilford Press (2019), xvi, 368 pp.
"Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both conceptual and technical aspects of practice in a friendl
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Systemic Evaluation Design: A Workbook
[author] (2019), 55 pp.
"Systemic evaluation design continuously addresses six questions: 1. What are the intervention purposes? 2. What is the scope and focus of the intervention and evaluation? 3. What ought to be the consequences of the evaluation and what evaluation purposes promote those consequences? 4. What are the
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Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth: A Guide to Program Evaluation with Stakeholders and Communities
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), xvi, 236 pp.
"Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and social service programs. This book walks the reader through a process of creating answerable evaluations questions, designing evaluation studies to answe
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