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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Utilisation-Focused Evaluation
INTRAC (2017), 2 pp.
"Utilisation-focused evaluations (UFEs) are based on the principle that an evaluation should be judged according to how useful it is. UFEs should be planned and implemented in a way that increases the likelihood of the findings being used. This normally means identifying the primary users of an eval
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Impact Assessment
INTRAC (2017), 5 pp.
Contribution Analysis
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Contribution analysis is a methodology used to identify the contribution a development intervention has made to a change or set of changes. The aim is to produce a credible, evidence-based narrative of contribution that a reasonable person would be likely to agree with, rather than to produce concl
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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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Gender-Responsive Evaluation
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"A gender-responsive evaluation includes two main components. It assesses the degree to which gender and power relationships change as a result of an intervention. And it ensures that women’s voices are prominent throughout the evaluation. Gender-responsive evaluations can be used to evaluate any
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Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit: User Guide
Chapel Hill: Measure Evaluation PIMA; USAID (2017), v, 74 pp.
"The Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit (MECAT) is a set of tools that guide organizations through a process to assess their current monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity, identify gaps, and plan ways to strengthen their M&E systems. MECAT uses four methods and supporting tools
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Demystifying Evaluation: Practical Approaches for Researchers and Users
Bristol: Policy Press; Social Research Association (2017), xv, 194 pp.
"Demystifying Evaluation is an accessible introductory guide explaining the options open to evaluators and how to make appropriate choices of research methods, covering issues such as managing expectations of evaluation, quantitative and qualitative methods, engaging stakeholders and providing actio
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Programme Indicators
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Some programme indicators are designed to be collected at programme level. Others are designed to capture, summarise or aggregate information collected at project or partner level. It is important to clarify how information on indicators is transmitted between different levels of a programme." (Int
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Building the Evidence Base for Post Project Evaluation: Case Study Review and Evaluability Checklists
Valuing Voices (2017), 35 pp.
"A review of eight projects with end-of-project and post project evaluation reports suggest that post project evaluations can contribute to better understanding of the sustainability of project impacts and identify unexpected and emerging outcomes years after project close. The review highlights som
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Real-Time Evaluation
INTRAC (2017), 3 pp.
"A real-time evaluation (RTE) is designed to provide immediate (real time) feedback to those planning or implementing a project or programme, so that they can make improvements. This feedback is usually provided during the evaluation field work, rather than afterwards. RTEs are normally associated w
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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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