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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact [in Arabic]
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 238 pp.
Performance Assessment and Analysis: Development Solutions for Worthy Results
West Cork, Ireland: Murray & McCarthy (2018), x, 102 pp.
"The idea of using mixed methods has a long tradition in social research. But it is also recognized that mixed methods are often poorly applied. In quantitative analysis, the qualitative component, if any, is often poorly designed, integrated or reported. These guidelines are to support the design,
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Resilience: A Companion Guide
Oxford: Oxfam (2018), 32 pp.
"This companion guide accompanies The Future is a Choice: The Oxfam Framework and Guidance for Resilient Development, providing practical guidance on how to design and implement resilience-sensitive monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) systems within our interventions that aim
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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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Most Significant Change
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It involves the collection and selection of stories of change, produced by programme or project stakeholders. MSC can be used in projects and programmes where it is not possible to precisely predict de
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Process Tracing
INTRAC (2017), 5 pp.
"Process tracing is a qualitative analysis methodology. The main purpose of process tracing is to establish whether, and how, a potential cause or causes influenced a specified change or set of changes. This is done by applying formal tests to examine the strength of evidence linking potential cause
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Impact Grids
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"An impact grid is a tool that helps stakeholders involved in a development intervention to analyse multiple changes by mapping those changes onto a grid. A typical grid charts the extent of change alongside the degree of contribution of the intervention. Impact grids can be used for many different
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers
Kellogg Foundation (2017), ix, 251 pp.
"At the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we believe that evaluation is an effective management tool to both inform strategy development and track the progress and impact of strategy implementation. We have long been committed to supporting our grantees’ ability to derive and share lessons learned from the
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Developmental Evaluation
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"Developmental evaluation involves long-term relationships between evaluators and project or programme staff. Evaluation is ongoing, which means that feedback can be provided on a continuous basis. Development evaluation is particularly appropriate for projects or programmes working in complex or un
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Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions: A Practical Guide
Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2017), ix, 202 pp.
Evaluation Approaches for Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2017), ix, 81 pp.
"The goal of this handbook is to provide guidance to practitioners and organizations interested in evaluating mental health prevention and early intervention (PEI) programs. In the course of developing an evaluation plan for a series of PEI programs implemented statewide by the California Mental Hea
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Indicators
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Indicators are commonly used in social development to provide evidence of change. They form an important part of most monitoring and evaluation systems and approaches. There are many different types of indicator, including quantitative and qualitative indicators. They can be developed in different
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