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Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), xxvii, 320 pp.
"Sections of the book engage in critical reflection on what peacebuilding effectiveness is and who gets to decide, provide practical examples and case studies of the successes and failures of assessing peacebuilding work, and support innovative strategies and tools to move the field forward. Chapter
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Cost-Inclusive Evaluation: Planning It, Doing It, Using It
New York; London: Guilford Press (2023), xii, 299 pp.
"Is a given treatment, intervention, or program worth it? How can a program do more or better with less? Evaluating the costs of a program can be the missing link between a superficial evaluation and one that will get changes made and funding delivered. In accessible language and without complex for
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Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods and Practice
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), xix, 401 pp.
"This book is written to provide detailed, rigorous guidance on how to conduct impact evaluations of government and nongovernment programs and projects. It covers all the leading quantitative impact evaluation methods, explaining the assumptions required for them to provide unbiased estimates and th
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Use of Community Engagement Interventions to Improve Child Immunisation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Campbell Systematic Reviews, volume 18, issue e1253 (2022), 118 pp.
"This systematic review examines the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community engagement interventions on outcomes related to childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and identifies contextual, design and implementation features that may be associated with effectiv
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A Valuing Impact Toolkit for ICT Investment
NEF Consulting; Digital Impact Alliance (dial) (2020), 124 pp.
"ICT4D projects are known for having social, economic, and environmental impacts that are difficult to capture. Investments in digital infrastructure and innovation often have high up-front costs with largely medium-to-long-term benefits, not quick, short-term outcomes desired by policy makers. The
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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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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
Deep Insights
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), iii, 155 pp.
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense
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The Cost of Getting Books Read in Rural Africa: Estimates from a Survey of Library Use in Burkina Faso
World Libraries, volume 14, issue 2 (2004), 11 pp.
"Estimates of the impact of libraries on reading in eight villages in Burkina Faso and costs of running libraries enable us to suggest that the cost of getting an extra book read a year varies from $.74 to $1.30, according to the size of the school in the village, and the cost of an extra school yea
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Enhancing Learning Opportunities in Africa: Distance Education and Information and Communication Technologies for Learning
Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), xii, 55 pp.
Interactive Radio Instruction: Impact, Sustainability, and Future Directions
Washington, DC: World Bank; USAID, Advanced Basic Education and Literacy Project (1999), viii, 65 pp.
Cost-Effectiveness of Publishing Educational Materials in African Languages
Deep Insights
London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (1997), x, 131 pp.
"The five case studies on the cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in national and local African languages, published in this volume, were commissioned in 1996 on behalf of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) by its Working Group on Books and Learning
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Measuring the Impact of Information on Development
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (1993), xiii, 188 pp.
Análisis y producción de mensajes televisivos
Quito: CIESPAL (1990), 80 pp.
Un modelo alternativo de educación básica: Radio Santa María
Paris: UNESCO (1978), 132 pp.
