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"Evaluations have two key functions: lesson learning and accountability. How well they can fill these tasks depends on the suitability of the evaluation design to address the evaluation questions of interest, and the quality of those evaluations. Unfortunately, many evaluations suffer from flaws whi
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Equitable Evaluation: Voices from the Global South
Cape Town: AOSIS Books (2023), xxxii, 282 pp.
"[...] Equitable evaluation contends that conducting evaluation practices with an equity approach is more powerful, as evaluation is used as a tool for advancing equity. It emphasises that context, culture, history and beliefs shape the nature of evaluations, specifically in the diverse and often co
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Handbuch zur Evaluation: Eine praktische Handlungsanleitung
Münster: Waxmann (2022), 516 pp.
"Ziel dieses Buches ist es, kompakt und nutzerfreundlich Grundkenntnisse für die Planung, Durchführung und Anwendung von Evaluationen zu vermitteln. Hierfür greift es auf die inhaltlichen Konzepte und Unterlagen zahlreicher Kurse zur Evaluation im In- und Ausland zurück. Das Buch richtet sich an
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Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management
Paris: OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), 2nd ed, prepublication English version (2022), 30 pp.
"This glossary provides conceptual clarity on common terms used in results based management, monitoring and evaluation. This 2nd Edition includes new terms, as well as updates and improvements to the original Glossary published in 2002. It is intended to support thoughtful approaches to results-base
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Footprint Evaluation Thought Experiments: Thinking Through How to Embed Environmental Concerns Into Evaluation
Footprint Evaluation Initiative; Better Evaluation (2022), 47 pp.
"The Footprint Evaluation Initiative aims to ensure that all evaluations consider environmental sustainability, regardless of whether this is an explicit objective of the project, policy or program being evaluated. This report describes four ‘thought experiments’ undertaken as part of this proje
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Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability
Los Angeles; London; New Delhi: Sage (2021), xxvi, 553 pp.
"This timely and comprehensive textbook covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs, particularly social programs and projects, with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective. It provides students with an equ
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Building the Evidence Base for Post Project Evaluation: Case Study Review and Evaluability Checklists
Valuing Voices (2017), 35 pp.
"A review of eight projects with end-of-project and post project evaluation reports suggest that post project evaluations can contribute to better understanding of the sustainability of project impacts and identify unexpected and emerging outcomes years after project close. The review highlights som
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A Guide: Integrating Communication in Evaluation
Geneva: Owl RE (2017), 32 pp.
"This guide is designed for anyone who wants to learn how communication can more effectively support evaluation: evaluation consultants, communication consultants, evaluation commissioners and programme/project staff participating in evaluations. The guide is structured around three broad phases of
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IDEAS Guide: Innovating, Designing, Evaluating and Applying to Small-Scale Projects. A Guide for Media and Communication Projects
RMIT University (2016), 73 pp.
"The IDEAS Guide is for organisations and people who are doing small media and communication projects. It is designed to cater for a range of different skill levels in evaluation. It is ideal for project managers and team members responsible for reporting and evaluation, as well as any other partici
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Monitoring and Evaluation Training: A Systematic Approach
Los Angeles: Sage (2016), xx, 439 pp.
"This one-of-a-kind book fills a gap in the literature by providing readers with a systematic approach to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) training for programs and projects. Bridging theoretical concepts with practical, how-to knowledge, the authors draw upon the scholarly literature, applied resour
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IDEAS Facilitators' Guide: Innovating, Designing, Evaluating and Applying to Small-Scale Media and Communication Projects
RMIT University; Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) (2016), 65 pp.
"The IDEAS Facilitators’ Guide provides briefing notes on how you, as a facilitator, can support small-grant recipients to use the IDEAS Guide to clarify their project design, and to plan and manage their evaluation. The Facilitators’ Guide is best used in conjunction with the IDEAS Guide. These
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Towards a Contingency-Based Approach to Value for Community Radio
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 13, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 121-138
"Community radio in Australia is now well established and considered an important part of the radio sector, however, in today’s economically driven world it is at the bottom of the media money pile. In order to argue for its continuing existence, funding and development in an ever-changing media l
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Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes. Part II: Using Theories of Change in Monitoring and Evaluation
London: Department for International Development (DFID); Search for Common Ground (2013), 29 pp.
"The goal of this document is to improve the effectiveness of DFID programmes and the measurement of their impacts by providing DFID Advisers with the practical skills to develop high quality theories of change, to understand the role they play in programme design and assessment. It is intended for
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Planning Evaluability Assessments: A Synthesis of the Literature with Recommendations
London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFIP) (2013), iv, 48 pp.
"[...] Amongst those agencies the following OECD DAC definition of evaluability is widely accepted and has been applied within this report: “The extent to which an activity or project can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion”.
Eighteen recommendations about the use of Evaluability Ass
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Peacebuilding with Impact: Defining Theories of Change
London: Care International (2012), 12 pp.
"Focusing on theories of change can improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. A review of 19 peacebuilding projects in three conflict-affected countries found that the process of articulating and reviewing theories of change adds rigour and transparency, clarifies project logic, high
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Understanding and Evaluating Theories of Change
In: Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility: Improving Learning for Results
Paris: OECD (2012), pp. 80-86
"Aid work in relation to conflict and peace is often based on approaches, strategies and tactics that are rooted in theories of change (understandings about why particular inputs or activities are expected to achieve intended results [outputs, outcomes and impacts]) that are unstated or ill-defined.
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"This research report considers the application of ToC to governance programmes in post-conflict and fragile states. It should be noted that, because of what information is available, the examples reviewed in this report are from post-conflict and least developed (though not necessarily fragile) sta
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A Resource Guide to Public Diplomacy Evaluation
Los Angeles: Figueroa Press (2011), 149 pp.
