"This guidance note covers Terms of Reference (ToR) guidance for all levels and types of evaluation outlined in the Adaptation Fund’s Evaluation Policy, including baseline studies and midterm reviews. While the emphasis is on developing ToRs for evaluation purposes, the ToR guidance can apply to o
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ther activities [...]" (Page 2)
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"The guideline provides a roadmap, flagging at which points in the process of commissioning, implementing and managing evaluations CEH-related considerations could and should be taken into account. As such, it covers the steps involved in preparing for an evaluation; developing the terms of referenc
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e (ToR) for an evaluation; managing the evaluation; and the post-evaluation development of an improvement plan and communication of the evaluation findings and recommendations. Given the often technical and complex nature of CEH-related issues, the guideline also provides an overview of the key concepts and features of CEH that underlie the rationale and dimensions of the evaluation criterion." (Introduction, page 2)
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"[...] the purpose of [this guide] is to support managers and commissioners of impact evaluations to better manage the entire process from drawing up terms of reference, selecting contractors, steering evaluations and utilising evaluation results. The guide also argues that relying only on tradition
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al approaches to IE does not fit well with the kind of customised, complex, locally engaged and often sensitive programmes that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) undertake. A broader range of designs and methods are needed." (Introduction, page 3)
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"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 c
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hapter’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)
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"The purpose of the manual is to introduce peacebuilding practitioners to the concepts, tools, and methods needed to incorporate better design, monitoring, and evaluation practices into peacebuilding programming. As an introductory volume, the target audience is front-line peacebuilding practitioner
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s from around the world with minimal formal training in design, monitoring, and evaluation. It assumes the audience has experience, training, and access to resources on conflict assessments, which are a prerequisite to participating in conflict transformation program design [...] The manual offers general information on learning and change in addition to chapters dedicated to specific issues such as baselines, indicators, monitoring, and evaluation. It is organized so that readers can easily jump from one chapter to another. However, we strongly urge jumpy readers to start with the chapter on understanding change because it frames the thinking for most of the discussions in the other chapters." (Page 2)
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"L’évaluation, enfin considérée comme un outil irremplaçable pour améliorer la qualité des actions, devient une pratique courante dans les milieux du développement. Mais elle reste un exercice délicat, et génère souvent plus de frustrations que de progrès. Comment en accroître l’effi
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cacité ? En s’adressant à la fois aux commanditaires d’évaluations, aux évaluateurs et aux évalués, pour qu’ils se comprennent mieux, malgré les enjeux qui parfois les opposent, pour qu’ils partagent le langage et les méthodes de l’évaluation, et surtout pour qu’ils s’approprient plus complètement cet outil. Ils doivent l’utiliser sur mesure en fonction des spécificités de l’action évaluée, à l’opposé d’un exercice académique reproduit indépendamment de son contexte. Mais le sur mesure n’exclut pas certaines règles." (Page 1)
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"Este manual intenta proporcionar a los administradores de proyectos y a los analistas de políticas las herramientas necesarias para evaluar el impacto de los proyectos. Está destinado a lectores con conocimientos generales de estadísticas. Para algunos de los métodos estadísticos más profundo
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s analizados, el lector es remitido a la literatura técnica sobre el tema. En el Capítulo 1 se presenta una visión general de los conceptos y métodos, en el Capítulo 2 se analizan los pasos clave y temas relacionados que hay que considerar durante la implementación, en el Capítulo 3 se ilustran diversas técnicas analíticas a través de un estudio de casos y en el Capítulo 4 se incluye un análisis de las lecciones aprendidas de un valioso conjunto de evaluaciones de “prácticas óptimas” de los proyectos de pobreza que se revisaron para este manual. Los estudios de casos, incluidos en el Anexo I, se seleccionaron de una variedad de evaluaciones realizadas por el Banco Mundial, otras agencias de donantes, instituciones de investigación y empresas consultoras privadas. Se eligieron por su rigor metodológico, en un intento por cubrir una amplia combinación de escenarios de países, tipos de proyectos y metodologías de evaluación. En los Anexos también se incluyen muestras de los principales componentes que serían necesarios al planificar cualquier evaluación de impacto: muestras de términos de referencia, un presupuesto, indicadores de impacto, un marco lógico y una matriz de análisis." (Prólogo, páginas 5-6)
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