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Monitoring Self-Effectiveness: A Manual to Strengthen Outcome and Impact Oriented Project Management

Eberhard Gohl, Bernward Causemann, Verena Brenner

Bonn: Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO) (2011), 86 pp.

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Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact

Jessica Clark, Barbara Abrash

Center for Social Media (2011), 75 pp.

"This working paper aims to synthesize current efforts to develop comparable evaluation methods for social issue documentary films. Authored by two researchers who have been jointly documenting the field’s transformation over the past five years, this paper offers a framework for planning and eval ... more

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Impact Evaluation in Practice

Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.

"This book off ers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in impact evalu ... ation. Prospective impact evaluations assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results or test alternative strategies for achieving those results. We consider that more and better impact evaluations will help strengthen the evidence base for development policies and programs around the world. Our hope is that if governments and development practitioners can make policy decisions based on evidence—including evidence generated through impact evaluation—development resources will be spent more eff ectively to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. The three parts in this handbook provide a nontechnical introduction to impact evaluations, discussing what to evaluate and why in part 1; how to evaluate in part 2; and how to implement an evaluation in part 3. These elements are the basic tools needed to successfully carry out an impact evaluation. The approach to impact evaluation in this book is largely intuitive, and we attempt to minimize technical notation. We provide the reader with a core set of impact evaluation tools—the concepts and methods that underpin any impact evaluation—and discuss their application to real-world development operations. The methods are drawn directly from applied research in the social sciences and share many commonalities with research methods used in the natural sciences. In this sense, impact evaluation brings the empirical research tools widely used in economics and other social sciences together with the operational and political-economy realities of policy implementation and development practice. From a methodological standpoint, our approach to impact evaluation is largely pragmatic: we think that the most appropriate methods should be identified to fit the operational context, and not the other way around. This is best achieved at the outset of a program, through the design of prospective impact evaluations that are built into the project’s implementation. We argue that gaining consensus among key stakeholders and identifying an evaluation design that fits the political and operational context are as important as the method itself. We also believe strongly that impact evaluations should be candid about their limitations and caveats. Finally, we strongly encourage policy makers and program managers to consider impact evaluations in a logical framework that clearly sets out the causal pathways by which a program works to produce outputs and influence final outcomes, and to combine impact evaluations with monitoring and complementary evaluation approaches to gain a full picture of performance." (Preface) more

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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

Michael Quinn Patton

New York: Guilford Press (2011), xxi, 373 pp.

"Developmental evaluation offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a developmental evaluation framework. Patton draws ... more

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Methods of Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Environments

Maureen Taylor

Montreaux (CH): Conference "Evaluating the Impact of Media Interventions in Conflict Countries", Caux Conference Center, December 13-17 (2010), 15 pp.

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Agency-Based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice

Stephen A. Kapp, Gary R. Anderson

Thousand Oaks: Sage (2010), 323 pp.

"Agency-based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice, by Stephen A. Kapp and Gary R. Anderson, serves as a core textbook in the advanced undergraduate and graduate social work program evaluation courses. It combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies a ... more

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Discussion Paper on the Monitoring and Evaluation of UN-Assisted Communication for Development Programmes: Recommendations for Best Practice Methodologies and Indicators. 11th UN Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development. Background Paper

Andrew Puddephatt, Rebecca Horsewell, Georgina Menheneott

Washington, DC: UNDP;World Bank (2009), 43 pp.

"United Nations agencies currently do not have commonly agreed tools for assessing the impact of Communication for Development (C4D) programmes. This paper is designed to help them explore the key issues surrounding C4D, consider case studies and best practice methodology and propose a set of draft ... more

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Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse: Eine Landkarte für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis

DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation, Arbeitskreis „Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik“ (2009), 51 pp.

"Die anvisierte Leserschaft dieser Landkarte ist die entwicklungspolitische Fachwelt, die mit der Analyse von tatsächlichen, das heißt empirisch nachprüfbaren (de facto) Wirkungen befasst ist und die einen schnellen, informativen Zugriff auf das Vorhandene benötigt. Dies sind in erster Linie Pro ... more

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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services
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Wageningen; The Hague; Amsterdam: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);Royal Tropical Institute (KIT);International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2009), xi, 321 pp.

"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri ... more

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Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit

Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Business Books (2009), viii, 327 pp.

"Explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The boo ... more

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Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation

Tom Ling, Lidia Villalba van Dijk (eds.)

RAND Europe (2009), xi, 208 pp.

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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
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Richard Heeks, Alemayehu Molla

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), iii, 155 pp.

"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense ... more

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Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperation. 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2007), 81 pp.

"The symposium Measuring Change. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation1: The adding of “Planning” to “Monitoring and Evaluation” in the subtitle indicates that emphasis was laid on learning from monitoring and evaluation experie ... more

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A Case for the Quantitative Assessment of Participatory Communication Programs

Tom Jacobson

Glocal Times, issue 9 (2007), 14 pp.

"What is dialog, and how can it be measured in a meaningful way? In this article, Jacobson presents an approach to assessing participatory communication based on communication in the form of dialog as conceptualized by Jurgen Habermas." (Abstract)

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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide

Oxford: Oxfam (2007), 74 pp.

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Evaluación de proyectos de desarrollo local: Enfoques, métodos y procedimientos

Jorge Rodríguez Sosa, Molvina Zeballos

Lima: Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo (DESCO) (2007), 156 pp.

"Este libro recupera parte de lo ya escrito y dicho sobre la evaluación en diferentes textos y espacios de reflexión y de diálogo. Si se nos pregunta sobre su aporte diríamos que, sumada a la convencional y necesaria presentación de argumentos conceptuales y herramientas metodológicas que sust ... more

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Evaluating Mass Media Health Communication: The Use of Evaluation Data to Improve Theory

Joel Lehmann

Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg (2007), 127 pp.

"This paper discussed the possibility to improve public communication campaign theory, by making use of data obtained through mass media health communication campaign evaluations. The idea of an ‘engineering’ approach to campaign design, where theory and scientific findings are systematically us ... more

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Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services

Tara M. Sullivan, Molly Strachan, Barbara K. Timmons

Baltimore, Md.; Cambridge, Mass.; Washington, DC: Center for Communication Programs;Management Sciences for Health;Constella Futures (2007), x, 50 pp.

"The 29 indicators in the Guide measure the reach, usefulness, and use, as well as the collaboration, and capacity building engendered through information products and services. The innovative “Conceptual Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services” shows how ... more

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Evaluation und Qualitätsentwicklung: Eine Grundlage für wirkungsorientiertes Qualitätsmanagement

Reinhard Stockmann

Münster: Waxmann (2006), 376 pp.

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Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Programs

Cheyanne Church, Mark M. Rogers

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 ... more

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services Key Guidance

Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects Top Insights

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services
Key Guidance

Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
Top Insights