"Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little done to bring about change within organisations. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations contribute to empowering stakeholde
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rs. This practical guide brings together evaluation concepts, methods and tools that work well in the field and presents core principles for guiding evaluations that matter; provides a framework for designing and facilitating evaluations; shows you how to get your primary intended users and other key stakeholders to contribute effectively to the evaluation process; offers ideas for turning evaluations into learning processes. Making evaluations matter to the primary intended users of development programmes is at the heart of this book – a must-read for evaluators, commissioners, monitoring and evaluation officers and key stakeholders within the international development sector." (Back cover)
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"This is an applied facilitator’s guide for reform managers, change agents, development practitioners, and training professionals who need to use smart communication techniques—the relevant concepts, frameworks and applications—to promote change through governance reform. It is grounded on the
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expert knowledge and practical research from academics and scholars and practitioners in the field, culled and enriched from CommGAP’s series of global dialogue on key governance issues." (Back cover)
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"The concept of multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) as an instrument for achieving development goals is sound, particularly when stakeholders with unique complementary strengths or core competencies add value to development efforts and pool their resources and assets in solving problems. But while m
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any laud the virtues of MSPs, most are struggling to make them work. The central challenge seems to revolve around the nurturing of a working relationship based on trust, mutual respect, open communication, and understanding among stakeholders about each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Stakeholders from each sector bring their own organisational mandates, interests, competencies and weaknesses to partnerships. Without open acknowledgement of these factors, and without processes in place to facilitate negotiations among stakeholders for optimal outcomes, effective MSPs will not emerge [...] Knowledge about MSPs as reflected in the contents of this publication is not perfect. It is meant to trigger debate and to serve as an open invitation for all stakeholders with MSP experiences in the area of ICT4D to share their perspectives and knowledge on the subject. What the GKP would like to obtain is a thorough and comprehensive understanding of how MSPs work and can be made to work effectively – knowledge which we ultimately intend to share with the rest of the world. The GKP is the world’s first MSP operating at the global level in the area of ICT for Development. It precedes the G8 Digital Opportunities Task Force (DOT Force) and the Digital Opportunities Initiative (DOI)." (Pages iii-iv)
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"Tools for Development" aims to help you deliver successful development activities and interventions by giving you access to the skills and techniques you will need to do so. The demand for it has come from DFID staff both in the UK and overseas who recognise that development initiatives inside and
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outside DFID need to be designed and managed using people-driven and performancebased management methods. Over the past decade, DFID has worked with others to develop new methodologies and refine earlier ones to support such approaches; the range of techniques from which to choose is still expanding." (Introduction, page 1.1)
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"Instead of telling you what to do at your station, this handbook will give you guidelines about the things you should be thinking of and at what stage of the setting up or operation of the station." (Introduction)
"This book explores the use of participation in the monitoring and evaluation of development programmes. Part one of the book provides a general overview of participatory monitoring and evaluation, synthesising literature surveys and regional reviews of practice around the world. Part two presents c
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ase studies that illustrate the diverse range of settings and contexts in which participatory monitoring and evaluation is being applied. Part three raises the key issues and challenges arising from the case studies and the workshop proceedings, and proposes areas for future research and action." (Adult education and development, 2001/1)
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