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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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Cómo gestionar evaluaciones con enfoque de género: Manual de evaluación
New York: ONU Mujeres (2015), iii, 168 pp.
Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change: A Guide for Facilitators
InsightShare; UNICEF (2015), 105 pp.
"This toolkit is for organisations planning to use 'participatory video and the most significant change' (PVMSC) to evaluate their social change projects. Part one gives an overview of the key stages and things to consider when preparing for a PVMSC process and includes perspectives and feedback fro
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Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice. The Definitive Text of Qualitative Inquiry Frameworks and Options
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 4th ed. (2015), xxi, 806 pp.
"Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, author Michael Quinn Patton has crafted the most comprehensive and systematic book on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inquiry frameworks, and analysis options available today.
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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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Content Analysis: Measuring the Success of Journalism Capacity Building
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 8 pp.
"In this paper we describe how quality in reporting could be measured through content analysis. We show that this approach, although somewhat technical, is feasible. It can help projects to become better and more successful. As a suggestion for practitioners in media development we present three opt
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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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Evaluating the Impacts of Media Assistance: Problems and Principles
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 21 pp.
"This paper suggests that the problem of impact evaluation of media assistance is understood to be more than a simple issue of methods, and outlines three underlying tensions and challenges that stifle implementation of effective practices in media assistance evaluation. First, there are serious con
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ICTs for Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
Search for Common Ground (2014), 43 pp.
"The paper focuses on exploring the application of the following ICTs: mobile technology, social media, big data, the digitization of surveys, and tools to better visualize data. Each section outlines a series of resources and some advantages and drawbacks to utilizing the new technology for M&E pur
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Assessing the Impact of TMF on the Tanzanian Media: A Practical Approach
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 11 pp.
"The Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) supports individual journalists and media institutions to produce quality public interest and investigative journalism content that better informs the public, contributes to debate and thereby increases public demand for greater accountability in Tanzania. TMF has used
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Evaluating Democracy Assistance
Boulder, Colo.: Rienner (2013), x, 241 pp.
"A comprehensive, practical guide to the on-the-ground tasks of evaluating and monitoring democracy assistance programs, from planning and implementation to preparing and presenting evaluation reports." (Publisher description)
Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide
Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press (2013), x, 467 pp.
This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it offer
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Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 189 pp.
"Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and eva
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Die Gruppendiskussion als Evaluationsmethode: Entwicklungsgeschichte, Potenziale und Formen
Zeitschrift für Evaluation, volume 12, issue 1 (2013), pp. 23-51
"Der Artikel beabsichtigt, den derzeitigen Diskussionsstand zu Theorie und Praxis der Gruppendiskussion bezogen auf das Feld der Evaluation zusammenzutassen, die Stärken und Grenzen von Gruppendiskussionen in evaluativen Vorhaben zu skizzieren und eine weitere Fundierung der Gruppendiskussion in de
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding: The Role of New Media
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (2013), 38 pp.
"Overall, this paper finds that peacebuilding practitioners have much to learn in terms of new media use from their humanitarian and development colleagues. New media is increasingly and often successfully used for needs assessments and beneficiary communication but only very few examples exist in w
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Introduction to Mixed Methods in Impact Evaluation
InterAction; Rockefeller Foundation (2012), 38 pp.
"Mixed methods (MM) evaluations seek to integrate social science disciplines with predominantly quantitative (QUANT) and predominantly qualitative (QUAL) approaches to theory, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. The purpose is to strengthen the reliability of data, validity of the fin
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Tools and Methods for Evaluating the Efficiency of Development Interventions
Bonn; Berlin: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2012), xiv, 117 pp.
"The present paper explores approaches for assessing efficiency. Efficiency is a powerful concept for decision making and ex post assessments of development interventions but, nevertheless, often treated rather superficially in project appraisal, project completion and evaluation reports. Assessing
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Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xxii, 461 pp.
"Based on Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed 'essentials' book provides both an overall framework and concrete advice for how to conduct useful evaluations that actually get used. This book integrates both theory and practice and is not only based
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Guidance on Monitoring and Evaluation
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), revised ed. (2012), 133 pp.
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2012), xxviii, 301 pp.
"The tools nonprofits need to measure the impact of their social media. Having a social media measurement plan and approach can no longer be an after-thought. It is a requirement of success. As nonprofits refine their social media practice, their boards are expecting reports showing results. As fund
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