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Evaluation Essentials from A to Z
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2025), xiii, 330 pp.
"loved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis, visualizing qualitative data with software, and mo
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Evaluation Roots: Theory Influencing Practice
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2023), ix, 318 pp.
"Showing how evaluation practice looks when guided by theory, the third edition of the influential "theory tree" book is significantly revised with over 80% new material, including a greater focus on equity and theories over theorists. Chapters from leading authorities describe the goals of each the
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Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Key Guidance
Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage, 5th ed. (2022), xxiv, 406 pp.
"The Fifth Edition of the bestselling 'Utilization-Focused Evaluation' provides expert, detailed advice on conducting evaluations that promote effective use of the findings. Chock full of useful pedagogy, this book presents Michael Quinn Patton's distinctive opinions based on more than forty years o
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Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods and Practice
Key Guidance
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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Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa
Routledge (2021), xxvi, 253 pp.
RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints
Key Guidance
Top Insights
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2020), xliv, 524 pp.
"Addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized around the authors’ seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation impl
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Leaving a Footprint: Stories of Evaluation That Made a Difference
San Juan (AR): Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ) (2018), 186 pp.
"The evaluation stories revealed in the project illustrate the value of a positive approach. They emphasize the evidence of what works and/or might work and is worthy of being continued, enlarged or modified. This can be contrasted with evaluations that are focused mainly on the technical problems a
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Dejar huella: Historias de evaluaciones que marcaron la diferencia
San Juan (AR): Editorial Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ) (2018), 188 pp.
Spuren hinterlassen: Evaluierungen, die einen Unterschied machen
San Juan: Editorial Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ) (2018), 186 pp.
Impact Evaluation: A Guide for Commissioners and Managers
London: Bond;Big Lottery Fund;Comic Relief;Department for International Development (DFID) (2015), 32 pp.
"[...] 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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How to Manage Gender-Responsive Evaluation: Evaluation Handbook
New York: UN Women (2015), iii, 162 pp.
"This Evaluation Handbook is a practical handbook to help those initiating, managing and/or using gender-responsive evaluations by providing direction, advice and tools for every step in the evaluation process: planning, preparation, conduct, reporting, evaluation use and follow up. The primary audi
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Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 4th ed. (2015), xl, 864 pp.
"The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs. Neatly integrating authoritative, high-level information with practicality and readability, this guide gives you the tools and process
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Field Guide for Evaluation: How to Develop an Effective Terms of Reference
Washington, DC: Pact (2014), 96 pp.
"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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Utilization Focused Evaluation: A Primer for Evaluators
Penang: Southbound (2013), xii, 114 pp.
"Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to their work. The focus is on intended users. UFE does not prescribe any specific content, method, or theory. It is a guiding framework, rather than a met
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Evaluation Reporting: A Guide to Help Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings
Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013), 18 pp.
"There are various aspects of evaluation reporting that can affect how information is used. Stakeholder needs, the evaluation purpose, and target audience should be considered when communicating results. Evaluation reporting should not only identify what, when, how, and to what extent information sh
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Use of Impact Evaluation Results
InterAction;Rockefeller Foundation (2012), 19 pp.
"Since impact evaluations focus on results and what contributes to results, logically there should be a greater enthusiasm for making use of the findings. Impact evaluations also tend to cost more than other types of evaluation, implying that they should command significant follow up as well. It tur
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Four Essentials for Evaluation
Washington, DC: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) (2012), 32 pp.
"When done well, evaluation for learning can help grantmakers, their grantees and their partners improve outcomes on the ground in real time. But doing it well requires that we work with key stakeholders to develop the leadership, the strategies and the systems that facilitate true learning.
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Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators
Simone van Vugt; Seerp Wigboldus; Bob Williams; Jim Woodhill (contrib.)
Wageningen: Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research Centre (2011), 118 pp.
"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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The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results
Key Guidance
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2011), xxi, 356 pp.
"The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox identifies stages in the use of outcomes and shows you how to use specific facets of existing outcome models to improve performance and achieve meaningful results. Going beyond the familiar limits of the sector, this volume also illustrates how tools and approaches lo
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Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Programs
Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground;Alliance for Peacebuilding;United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2006), 228 pp.
"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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