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Field Guide for Evaluation: How to Develop an Effective Terms of Reference

Washington, DC: Pact (2014), 96 pp.

Contains 15 tables, 6 figures, bibliogr. pp. 86-89

CC BY-SA

"A practical guide to managing and leading evaluation efforts, this module is designed for use in evaluations within your organization and among your partners. Increasing local capacity to conduct and manage good program evaluation is a key goal of the Results and Measurement team at Pact ... Each chapter’s learning objectives and exercises relate to sections of Pact’s evaluation protocol, and each chapter builds on the previous one. By the end of the module, if you have worked your way through the exercises, you should have a comprehensive, written plan for your evaluation—that is, a full terms of reference (TOR). In addition, a TOR template can be found in Appendix 1 (page 90). The shaded boxes that introduce and give an overview of each chapter refer to relevant sections of this template." (Foreword)
1 What is evaluation? 11
2 Evaluation purpose and questions, 19
3 Overview of evaluation design and methods, 29
4 Data sources and collection methods, 40
5 Sampling, 50
6 Basic data analysis, 59
7 Using and communicating the results, 67
8 Managing the evaluation, 75
Glossary, 84
References, 86
Appendix 1: Evaluation terms of reference template, 90