"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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ir work. To that end, the foundation published the first Evaluation Handbook (The Kellogg Foundation, 1998) almost two decades ago to guide evaluation for our grantees. Since that time, as the discipline of evaluation grew and expanded, the demand for evaluation has risen. More and more nonprofit leaders and practitioners strive to design evidence-based programs, and more and more funders require their grantees to provide evidence to demonstrate the success of their funded work. The democratization of evaluation makes it necessary that evaluation is both rigorous and practical. How to achieve the balance motivated us to update the handbook. Over the years, the foundation has learned a lot from our grantees about the challenges of evaluation. This handbook is our continuous effort to demystify evaluation and facilitate its use, for the foundation’s grantees and for all organizations committed to learning and strengthening their work. It is designed for people who have little to no exposure to formal evaluation training and provides a starting point for them as they consider evaluating their work. It is intended to help them become more informed consumers of evaluation. Evaluations can be simple or extensive depending on the scope and complexity of the work being evaluated. The scope of the evaluation could potentially include a single program, a multi-site initiative, or a multifaceted strategy aimed at systems and community change. Regardless of the complexity of the effort, the basics for evaluating it remain the same and this handbook was written to impart information about these basics." (Foreword)
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"As part of our ongoing work to strengthen our support for communities, the trustees and staff of the Otto Bremer Trust engaged in a series of learning seminars on evaluation. In order to make the core concepts easily accessible and retrievable, we asked Michael Quinn Patton, who led the seminars, t
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o create a set of basic reference cards. These became the Evaluation Flash Cards presented here, with the idea that a core concept can be revisited “in a flash.”
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"To understand the changes brought about by a project or programme it is first necessary to understand what the original situation was. This is known as the baseline. Baselines can range from simple data collection exercises through to large, expensive surveys. They are an important part of many M&E
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systems. Baselines are normally carried out at or near to the start of a project or programme." (Introduction)
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"Surveys and questionnaires are designed to collect and record information from multiple people, groups or organisations in a consistent way. Surveys and questionnaires can be used on their own as data collection tools. They are also an essential part of some more complex data collection and analysi
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s methodologies. They can be used at any time within a project or programme cycle." (Introduction)
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"This ESOMAR/GRBN Guideline on Mobile Research is intended to support researchers, especially those in small and medium-sized research organisations, in addressing legal, ethical and practical considerations when conducting research using mobile devices. It explains how to apply the fundamental prin
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ciples of market, opinion and social research in the context of the current legal frameworks and regulatory environments around the world. It supplants previous separate guidelines released by ESOMAR and GRBN in 2012 and 2014 respectively. It is a statement of global principles rather than a catalogue of existing regulations."
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"Auf die theoretischen Grundlagen qualitativer Medienforschung folgen in einem zweiten Teil die wichtigsten Fragen zum Forschungsdesign. Kern des Buches sind dabei die verschiedenen Erhebungsmethoden, wie Inhaltsanalyse, Interview, Gruppendiskussion, Beobachtung, Experiment oder szenisches Spiel. We
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itere Teile setzen sich mit der Aufzeichnung und Auswertung qualitativer Daten auseinander. In der völlig überarbeiteten und erweiterten Neuauflage wird auf aktuelle Entwicklungen eingegangen: So werden Methoden wie mobile Online-Befragungen und Analysen von Websites in ihrer forschungspraktischen Relevanz erläutert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"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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s to the changes. Process tracing also involves testing alternative ideas about how change might have come about." (Introduction)
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"There are many different types of evaluation. Each type has its own set of processes and/or principles. Many factors influence decisions over what type of evaluation to use. Evaluations can be categorised according to their purpose, who conducts them, when they are carried out, the broad approach u
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sed, and cross-cutting themes. Many CSO evaluations don’t use any particular methodology or approach." (Introduction)
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"Before you begin, think about what you want to achieve. You will need to ask yourself a series of questions:
• Podcasts can ether be viewed/heard online or can be downloaded and transferred to an MP3 player. Think about your audience – is a podcast an appropriate medium for them? Would they be
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likely to download a podcast?
• What is your podcast about? In order to market it and prepare effectively you will need a clear and specific idea about what your podcast is trying to achieve? What makes your podcast different?
• Will you make an audio or a video podcast? You will need to think carefully about how you write the script – taking into account visual priorities for video podcasts and sounds for audio podcasts
• Where will you host it? From your own website or elsewhere?
• How will you attract listeners/viewers? Why would they be interested?" (Page 2)
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"Sometimes, information is used for planning, monitoring or evaluation that has previously been collected by other people or organisations for their own purposes. This is known as secondary data. There are many potential sources of secondary data. Secondary data can be used at any stage of a project
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or programme cycle." (Introduction)
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"[...] es una herramienta indispensable para operadores de justicia que tratan casos sobre la libertad de expresión. La guía, producida conjuntamente por la UNESCO y la oficina del Relator Especial para Libertad de Expresión (RELE) y escrita por Silvia Chocarro, es un mapa esencial de los estánd
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ares internacionales e incluye recomendaciones de lecturas, referencias a textos legales, ejemplos de casos y recursos útiles para ayudar a operadores de justicia a navegar en el terreno, a veces complejo, de garantizar el derecho a la libertad de expresión y acceso a la información." (www.cima.ned.org)
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"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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certain environments. It is primarily designed to support learning and management decision-making." (Introduction)
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"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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uation and ensuring that they are engaged in decision-making throughout the process." (Introduction)
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"A participatory evaluation actively involves key stakeholders, especially the intended beneficiaries of a project or programme, in the design and implementation of the evaluation. Participatory evaluations can be carried out for many reasons. The two most common are to empower beneficiaries to bett
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er analyse and improve their own situations, and to produce better and more reliable findings and recommendations." (Introduction)
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"This publication is the outcome of the “East Africa Regional Peace Journalism Training Workshop” for journalists covering conflict and peacebuilding in East Africa. Organized by Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace, and Security (CMDPS) in partnership with the African Peacebu
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ilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the two-day event brought together journalists from five East African countries—Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda—to develop their capacity for reporting on conflict-related issues in an objective manner based on the tenets of the theory and practice of peace journalism." (Introduction)
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"As journalists from across Sub-Saharan Africa, we adhere to our profession’s principles of honesty, fairness, accuracy, transparency, sensitivity and thoroughness. When reporting and editing on sexual and gender minorities & religion, we resolve to: 1. independently develop our knowledge of diffe
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rent belief systems and SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression) issues; 2. avoid mentioning faith affiliation or SOGIE status when such information is not directly relevant to a story; 3. carefully consider word choice and framing around sexual and gender minorities and followers of different faiths. Use sources’ preferred terminology when appropriate; 4. allow marginalized people to speak for themselves and in their own voices; 5. strive to include moderate voices in our reporting, not just the extremes; 6. seek out knowledgeable sources capable of providing accurate information and analysis; 7. always consider the motivations and potential biases of our sources; 8. be especially diligent in verifying all details when covering sensitive news and ask for clarification when needed; 9. avoid including dangerous hate speech in our stories; 10. avoid sensationalizing or capitalizing on marginalized identities; 11. avoid using imagery that depicts religious or sexual and gender minorities in stereotypical or dehumanizing ways; 12. take all measures possible to provide anonymity when necessary to protect the safety and security of individuals and communities; 13. practice the qualities of responsible, ethical journalism by minimizing harm and avoiding hearsay and rumor; 14. encourage diversity in our newsrooms; 15. ensure that our personal beliefs and biases do not influence the objectivity of our reporting or limit the topics we cover. If our beliefs somehow make covering a story impossible, we should pass it onto a colleague." (Reporting resolution, page 6)
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"This guide promotes a planned and structured approach to developing program logic and includes information on: the meaning and purpose of program logic; when and how to develop program logic; how program logic can be used, with a particular focus on planning an evaluation. A program logic model is
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a schematic representation that describes how a program is intended to work by linking activities with outputs, intermediate impacts and longer term outcomes. Program logic aims to show the intended causal links for a program." (Page 4)
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"This book, the first of its kind ever in Yemen, serves as a guide for Yemeni media professionals as well as a highly significant document that will go a long way in boosting their reporting skills in such a way that meets the standards of conflict sensitive journalism. It is also a compendium on a
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number of workshops SEMC had conducted across Yemeni governorates over the past couple of years." (Introduction, page 8)
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